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Sheldon Richardson: I ‘laughed my ass off’ at Maccagnan firing

BEREA, Ohio — When the Jets fired Mike Maccagnan as general manager in May, it was mostly met by shock, because of the timing.

For one man, it was met by a different emotion.

“I laughed my ass off,” Sheldon Richardson told The Post.

The former Jet and current Browns defensive tackle found irony in Maccagnan’s ouster. The Jets had Maccagnan hire a new coach, run their draft and spend more than $120 million on free agents in the offseason, then dumped him. Richardson, whom the Jets drafted in 2013 before Maccagnan traded him following the 2017 preseason, felt he could relate.