It is one thing to see the downcast, glum faces of veteran players who have been this way before.

As frustrated as Dexter Lawrence and Brian Burns appeared to be on Sunday, not long after the Giants lost for the seventh time in nine games this season, this was not a new development for them. It’s safe to assume they know how to handle it.

There can be no such assumption for the younger players on the roster. How they deal with failure upon failure, week after week, is something to keep an eye on if the Giants continue to turn their weekends into fruitless endeavors.

Lawrence has been with the Giants since 2019, and his only winning season in that span came in 2022. That the Giants are 2-7 is nothing he has not experienced before. It is nothing anyone around the Giants is unfamiliar with. In five of the past eight years, they have been 2-7 after nine games. Other seasons have seen them go 1-8 (2017) and 3-6 (2021). The outlier was in 2022, when the Giants were 7-2 after nine games.