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How friends turned enemies can swipe Jets in free-agent raid

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Rex Ryan and Mike Tannenbaum

INDIANAPOLIS — There is an X Factor … make that an “Ex Factor” for the Jets in free agency.

Multiple agents who represent Jets players scheduled to become free agents next week mentioned at the NFL Scouting Combine this week that if the Jets don’t pay their clients, they think the player would have a landing spot in Buffalo, where former Jets coach Rex Ryan is now the head coach, or Miami, where former Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum is the executive vice president of football operations.