Mike Maccagnan was right to implement the 2017 ‘purge’

Mike Maccagnan and Todd Bowles attend Darrelle Revis' retirement press conference Tuesday.Darrelle Revis stood in the auditorium of the Jets’ headquarters on Tuesday and officially retired. This came three months after Nick Mangold stood in the same spot to announce his retirement.

General manager Mike Maccagnan sat in the front row for both press conferences and watched as both Jets legends said goodbye. Maccagnan was the man who essentially retired both when he kicked them to the curb after the 2016 season, convinced neither was worth what the team was paying them.

The Revis and Mangold transactions were part of a series of moves Maccagnan made in the winter and spring of 2017 that came to…