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New York Jets 2019: Ranking the 53-man roster — #47 Sam Ficken

One area where New York Jets coach Adam Gase deserves the most blowback is for how he really mishandled the team’s placekicking situation.

This trainwreck goes back before he was in charge — to former general manager Mike Maccagnan’s inexplicable decision to lowball the team’s dynamic All-Pro kicker Jason Myers.

That monstrous mistake led to a string of disappointments.

From the sudden training camp retirement of 2017 booter Chandler Catanzaro, and the blown preseason gift job offered to inconsistent Tayler Bertolet.

To likely the worst-ever gameday kicking exhibition by big-legged Norwegian waiver claim Kaare Vedvik (who, 12 weeks after his laughable one-game Jets career, was shockingly signed to the Cincinnati Bengals’ practice squad).