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New York coaching puzzle is nearly complete

We are almost there, people! The emergency redecoration of metropolitan area coaches’ offices has one last makeover left on the agenda: a new head coach for the Rangers.

When that happens, it will complete two years unprecedented in the annals of New York coaching turmoil, a stretch that improbably has left the Jets’ Todd Bowles as the dean of area coaches and managers.

Todd Bowles! It seems like only yesterday I leveraged a free lunch out of attending his introductory news conference. But that was January of 2015, when Sam Darnold was in high school and Geno Smith was the Jets’ starting quarterback.