Real changes for Jets start with empowering Mike Maccagnan

Mike MaccagnanFive games remain in this miserable Jets season that’s headed for an eighth consecutive year without a playoff berth and a likely third in a row with a losing record.

And once this season mercifully ends, Jets ownership, beginning with CEO Christopher Johnson, will have some major decisions to make.

Todd Bowles will be fired. That’s the simple part.

What the Jets do with general manager Mike Maccagnan is more complicated, and that doesn’t mean whether to retain him or fire him along with Bowles.

By all indications, Maccagnan will stay, and that’s the correct call.

While it’s hardly been perfect on the part of Maccagnan — with second-round draft-pick busts such as quarterback…