CINCINNATI — It has been an eyesore for most of the post-Super Bowl XLVI Era. But lo and behold, Giants general manager Dave Gettleman has made good on his vow to build a wall for Eli Manning and Saquon Barkley.

Good golly, hog mollie, the offensive line fix is in, and the transformation has been dramatic and eye-opening.

The Yankees have their Savages.

The Giants have their Badasses.

“A tough badass, that’s what I try to be,” center Jon Halapio says. “I think that’s something that we demand of our group on game day, is being tough badasses, and that’s just how we run block, that’s how we finish plays, how we pass block.”

The proof will ultimately be in the pudding, but no one around the Giants, who face the Bengals on Thursday night, believes Manning will be running for his life — the way he has too often lately — when the regular season opens Sept. 8 against the Cowboys.

The Badasses:

LT Nate Solder: 6-foot-8, 320 pounds.

LG Will Hernandez: 6-2, 304.

C Halapio: 6-3, 320.

RG Kevin Zeitler: 6-4, 315.

RT Mike Remmers: 6-5, 303.

“There’s a sense of urgency to get this thing turned around,” Halapio says. “We drive the offense. If we can’t block then we can’t get anything done. We understand that, we gotta keep Eli upright, and we gotta create holes for Saquon.”

The Badasses.

“They are pretty badass, I can’t lie about that,” mountainous rookie DT Dexter Lawrence chuckled. “Just the way they come out and just attack every day, and just aggressive every day. You can’t have an off day though, they’re gonna embarrass you.”

With Zeitler and Remmers joining Solder, there hasn’t been this much wisdom in the offensive line room since the Chris Snee Era.

“I think we’re just more like serious about football,” Halapio said. “We’ve been watching the film from last year and the year before on mishaps from the O-line, and we just understand that we collectively in the room. We drive the ship. We take this team as far as we want to go.”

This is a more prideful unit than the recent laughingstocks that have been rightfully maligned.

“Right now we’re just trying to build it one block at a time,” Halapio says, “but we for sure have goals, we want to be the best offensive line in the league, we want to be the most efficient in the passing game and we want to have the most rushing yards. We have extremely high expectations of ourselves in the room, and that will only make us better.”

Halapio loves playing center.

“I just like having control of directing us into the right direction,” he says. “Being dead in the middle, especially next to two huge guards, I just like that security, like there’s a wall around me.”

Zeitler is serious as a heart attack.

“He’s all ball,” Halapio says. “When he comes in the building, it’s a man on a mission.”

Hernandez profited greatly from playing all 16 games as a rookie.

“Night and day,” Halapio says. “His awareness, his maturity on the field has just grown. When I started coming back into the first string in OTAs, he’s actually helped me along with Zeitler to speed things up, get back to where I was mentally.”

Halapio missed most of last season after fracturing his leg Week 2 against the Cowboys. (Shurmur, an old offensive lineman, is also high on center Spencer Pulley.) A life without football was nothing new for Halapio — in 2015 he had been without football, selling used cars at minimum wage in St. Petersburg, Fla.

“I was emotionally hurt,” Halapio said. “For three months I couldn’t even walk, so I was on the scooter, so I just watched it at my apartment on TV.”

Now he’s back. Holes for Barkley. Time to throw for Manning. A novel concept indeed. We’ll find out whether the offensive line has been fixed for certain soon enough. But Badasses isn’t a bad place to start.