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Jets must solve the mystery of Christian Hackenberg

Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, then returned in 1985. His SportsWatch column debuted in 2005.

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Todd Bowles spoke Monday. Mike Maccagnan will speak later this week. Woody Johnson will speak at some point.

Brandon Marshall spoke for 23 minutes, which might be a record for an NFL receiver on a locker clean-out day.

But talk is cheap when it comes to a Superfund site as toxic as the Jets’. What everyone in green needs most is what every NFL team needs: a very good quarterback.

So it was that perhaps the most important man in the building as the Jets parted ways was a 21-year-old who did not have much of interest to say and who never has taken a regular-season snap as a pro.