It won't be for Kerry Collins, or for Kurt Warner, or for any other grizzled veteran you can name. Ryan comes from Baltimore, which disproved (along with Atlanta) the long-held notion that you can't learn to win while a kid quarterback learns to play, as long as it's the right kid quarterback. Is that Clemens? Is that Ratliff? Is that navigating the draft, trying to snare someone like Mark Sanchez or Matt Stafford?

It's on Mike Tannenbaum to let Ryan make that call, and it had better be the right one. But at least it will be the smart one, no matter whom the Jets pick. Finding a Favre Lite would be the opposite of smart. And the Jets too often have been the opposite of smart the last 40 or so years.

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Added: February 12, 2009

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Brett did the Jets a big favor 2009-02-12
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