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Joe Namath wants him.
Brandon Marshall doesn’t.
And the whole mini-debate over how, or even if, general manager Mike Maccagnan should pursue a trade for rehabbing San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick is beside the point, anyway.
The Jets have bigger fish to broil than the quarterback position, assuming that Maccagnan brings back the unrestricted Ryan Fitzpatrick once the free agent period starts March 9.
Even before Maccagnan restructures contracts and releases players to increase his current $9 million and change of salary cap space to accommodate the importation of outside talent, the need to bulk up the defensive side became ever more apparent over the weekend.