Just picture this …

The New York Giants have just captured a huge NFC East victory over the Dallas Cowboys and the home locker room at MetLife Stadium is bumping. A little old-school Blueprint Jay-Z is rocking while the players clown around. Suddenly, President Donald Trump shows up.

That'd be the case if one New York Giants player's wish came true.

Giants linebacker Mark Herzlich invited Trump closer to the players recently in a welcoming sign to speak with the players to receive a better understanding of certain elements surrounding the league's National Anthem issue, via Pat Leonard of the New York Daily News. Herzlich explained the best possible way to handle certain Anthem remarks.

“I think the best way to handle remarks like that is it’s not necessarily a push back against his remarks. It’s to maintain the focus on the real issue,” Herzlich said. “The real issue isn’t players being against a president or against a country. It’s about players being for unity, and they want to create an atmosphere with law enforcement, with others in their community that we share in the locker room.

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Herzlich, 30, is a six-year veteran of the league who's only known the Jints. Though he's never been that lockdown starting inside linebacker teams salivate over, he's contributed in many of the extra ways that could never be imagined.

He's an excellent special teams player and can always fill one of the second-level spots when need-be. More importantly, he's a voice for many of the players—as evidenced in his latest Donald Trump remarks.

“You go in the locker room and guys from every single race, every single demographic, every single religious background, and we all are just a team. And so I think we see that, what’s possible. And I would love Trump to come down here and hang out in our locker room and see what locker room talk’s really about, and talking about our night nurses and our babies — this is what we talk about, it’s a family.”

Whether or not Trump heeds his advice, the National Anthem issue in the NFL is sure to rage on through the 2018 season.