As Jets fans like RayRay points out, Tannenbaum is a man among boys when it comes to the details and outsmarting other teams in trades.
What goes around comes around. The only semi-competent 21st century manager of the Jets was Eric Mangini. The only draftees that turned out well were his choices.
But Tannebaum and the other back stabbers and incompetents ganged up on him to get him fired and take the abuse for the FAVRE episode that was not even his idea or doing.
Tanny is a total incompetent Boob. Woody is a rich heir to a fortune that he had little to do with, and doesn't know how to run a franchise. He has a white elephant as a new Stadium, that he is in trouble selling tickets and PSLs to finance.
The Jets went "All In" to win while the Pats were "rebuilding"; and they needed their fans to sign up for PSL's. But they were greedy an dgreatly overpriced the PSLs. The plan made them mildly functional for a few years, trading for aging veterans, and head cases, but that is over and done, and the overly expensive PSL's were not all sold. Unlike the Giants who priced their PSL's much more reasonably, and sold them all.
Rex was the "choice" for Head Coach when everyone else rebuffed the Jets and Cower wouldn't even bother to talk to them.
They once again opted for celebrity over talent trading for clebrity Tim Tebow, without reading the fine print apparenatly. But that has always been the case.
Joe Namath was turned into a glamorous Star, by an entertainment big wig, who knew how to do it. He was a good player but hardly a HOF candidate. What other QB made the HOF with a barely 50% completion percentage, and a large excess of INTs over TDs on his career resume?
Biill Belichick recognized this dysfunctional organization was incapable of winning; and got out as quickly as he could, just like Bill Parcels.