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This ‘pissed off’ Adam Gase answer suddenly looks damning

“I don’t read much because I think a lot of the stuff is crap,” Adam Gase said Friday, asked about the media reports of a rift between the head coach and Jets general manager Mike Maccagnan. “No offense.”

Not all crap is wrong, even if it stinks for Maccagnan.

In the aftermath of the abrupt firing of the Jets GM on Wednesday, after he survived the ouster of Todd Bowles, helped choose his replacement in Gase, was the main voice in choosing how the Jets emptied their coffers in free agency and then helped captain the Jets’ draft, Gase’s casual and strong denial of anything awry behind the scenes looks particularly galling.

Five days earlier, Gase, who has risen after Maccagnan’s fall, dismissed any hint of discord inside the Jets’ brain trust.

“Unless I say it, it’s really irrelevant to me,” said Gase, entering his first year as head coach and now first day as interim GM. “I don’t know who decides that, puts that stuff out there. Kind of pisses me off a little bit because we have discussion on everything. That’s our job.”

Up sprouted reports this offseason, one from draft analyst Tony Pauline, another from The Athletic’s Mike Lombardi, that signaled there was some in-fighting about whom the Jets should acquire in free agency, and Maccagnan was on the hot seat. Both Maccagnan and Gase denied that, but Gase most passionately.

“Since we started, we’ve been constantly in communication, whether he’s going into my office or I’m going into his office,” Gase said. “That’s all we’re trying to do, trying to make sure that we’re on the same page all the time and making sure that we’re trying to put this thing together as well as we can in a short period of time.

“If everybody just agreed on everything, it’d be boring. You need to have a little excitement every once in a while.”

And a ton of excitement every once in a while, too.

Gase was asked if there was any frustration about how free agency was handled. The Post’s Brian Costello has reported Gase and Maccagnan had disagreed on the money (four years, $52.5 million) given to Le’Veon Bell.

“I mean the plan was … we knew what it was going into it,” Gase said. “Got executed and we moved on to the draft. Just about, can we get the guys we were talking about getting?”

And the guys they were getting rid of.