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Jets’ infuriating Le’Veon Bell conflict is at major crossroad

Use him or move him.

The Jets need to either use Le’Veon Bell properly or trade him.

This figures to be a critical issue the team, beginning with general manager Joe Douglas, must tackle in the offseason.

Because this question has yet to be answered though 12 games this season: Why pay one of the premier running backs in the NFL some $13 million a year if you’re not going to use him as your Bell cow?

The Jets — particularly head coach Adam Gase — have tap danced around the underutilization of Bell so much this season that it has become tiresome and a waste of everyone’s time: theirs, Bell’s, Sam Darnold’s and the fans’.