On Wednesday, the New York Jets were once again the laughingstock of the NFL, firing their general manager only after he had already spent nearly $200 million in free agency and controlling yet another draft with a pick in the top-10. Not that what Mike Maccagnan did was all bad — Quinnen Williams is not someone I would bet against — but how could the Jets manage to top themselves in mismanagement once again?
Because they’re the Jets, I guess.
The problems stretch back for decades of course and include the 2013 draft, in which New York ended up picking three times in the top 40: Dee Milliner at nine (thanks to the Darrelle Revis trade), Sheldon Richardson at 13, and Geno Smith at 39, a quarterback who some had projected as a top-five pick at one point and then as the draft approached — former Seattle Seahawks front office-man John Idzik’s first with the team — it became clear that no quarterback would emerge as “franchise.