Bradway out, Mr. T in

That's Mr. Mike Tannenbaum for the uninitiated. So Terry Bradway is out as GM of the New York Jets and the salary cap guru, Mike Tannenbaum, is in. Bradway has been moved to a consulting position. Now we know Mike's position. We know Terry's position. Here's my position.

I'm sitting down with my left leg resting on a board and facing a computer.

Good riddance to Bradway. Between losing 4 players to Washington, then trading 2 number one picks and a fourth rounder to get the "phenomenal" DT Dewayne "Giving me pain" Robertson, trading this year's first round pick for Doug "Doesn't make me feel too" Jolley, letting James Farrior leave as a free agent to go to Pittsburgh, signing disappointments like Sam "Brown" Cowart, Lance Legree, and David Barrett, resigning older guys like Wayne Chrebet, Jason Fabini, and Curtis Martin to outrageous deals, getting backups like Damien Robinson, Reggie Tongue, and Terrell "Steve Smith beat me again" Buckley (and that's just the secondary), signing Doug Brien as the kicker. I know the Jets made the playoffs 3 of his 5 years. But the core of the team was acquired when Bill Parcells was still here. Testaverde, Pennington, Mawae, Fabini, Martin, Chrebet, Sowell, McKenzie, Abraham, and Ellis. And he made a handful of good draft picks, but only one has reached the Pro Bowl: Santana Moss who's doing it in Washington.

But has anything really changed? The same guys are still in charge, it's just that the hierarchy has been shuffled. Tannenbaum is essentially a lawyer and he does a great job at keeping the Jets under the salary cap, although with the situation coming this offseason, who knows what will happen? But what does he know about drafting, making trades, scanning the waiver wire, and all of that stuff? Hopefully, he will let Eric Mangini decide on drafts and free agents.

It's new blood in the front office. That's potentially good. I just wonder if he deserves to be making personnel decisions.

And more than that, why wasn't this done a month ago when Herman Edwards left?

It's going be a rebuilding process, to say the least. 3 or 4 years. And Mangini, Tannenbaum, and the rest of that front office had better build this house to stand.