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The Jets can’t afford to let free agent quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick run off to another team.

The Jets are offering their starting quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick backup money. He naturally would prefer to be paid starter’s money.

The difference is a staggering $7 million per year. Not $7 million total on a multi-year deal.

What should the Jets do?

Pay the man.

That’s unless the Jets want Geno Smith or RG3 or Colin Kaepernick running out of the tunnel on opening day and taking the first snap of the season. That will force Jets fans to put bags over their heads and run for the parking lots.

Smith, RG3 and Kaepernick are former starters. All three are reclamation projects. Right now, none of the three are any good. Do the Jets really have that much faith in offensive coordinator Chan Gailey?

Fitzpatrick, a 33-year old journeyman, may have no other viable options, which severely hurts his leverage.

But neither do the Jets, which severely hurt their playoff chances.

For all these years, the Jets have gotten away without spending big money on QBs. Now they have to at least get in the ballpark.

They are a win-now team that just signed Matt Forte, a 30-year old with plenty of carries in the NFL, to be their feature back. They are not turning the team over to Bryce Petty and even if they fall in love with a rookie in the draft, it’s unlikely he starts the opener even if Fitz is not on the team.

The difference between what the Jets are offering and what Fitzpatrick wants is mind-boggling. The $7 million per year gap has to be some sort of an NFL record. One week into free agency, there has been no meeting in the middle. There has been little conversation.

Fitzpatrick’s only leverage is to find another deal and sign it or perhaps give the Jets a chance to match. Or he could retire and put his Harvard degree to better use. The Jets leverage is they are the only team offering Fitz a starting job.

The numbers I heard Monday: He wants $14 million per year. The Jets are offering between $7 million-$8 million per year.

This is a financial difference that appears to be the result of Fitzpatrick’s awful performance in the fourth quarter of the final game in Buffalo in the win-and-you’re-in setup that they Jets didn’t win. Fitz tossed interceptions on the final three possessions of the season, the first one coming on a poor throw to Eric Decker in the end zone when the Jets were positioned for an easy field goal to take the lead and then let the defense hold it.

So, despite Fitz’s team record 31 touchdown passes in his first year with the Jets and leading them to 10 victories, which in just about every other year would have put the Jets in the playoffs, management seems to be obsessed with how he played in Buffalo and as a result have low-balled him, virtually daring him to leave. It’s a surprising approach to take with a quarterback who was supposed to be their guy.

The Jets are basically trying to fine him $7 million per season for blowing the playoffs. If Fitzpatrick had pulled out that Buffalo game, like he did on the final possessions against the Cowboys and Giants, or when he drove the Jets to the winning touchdown on the first possession in overtime against the Patriots — all were crucial December games — then he surely would have been signed by the Jets in advance of free agency starting last Wednesday.

If he had made it to the playoffs for the first time, with the sixth team he had started for in his career, then I believe the Jets would have paid him market value, especially if he had then won a playoff game.

So what is he worth now?

I admit my evaluation has changed since free agency started based on the numbers coming in. If Fitzpatrick is going to be the Jets starter, pay him as the starter, but that doesn’t mean they have to pay him stupid money. Pay him market value minus a bit of a discount because after all these years, he has found the perfect home. Pay him $13 million a year for two years with the first year guaranteed.

Fitzpatrick throws a career-high 31 touchdowns last season against just 15 INTs.Brandon Wade/AP

Fitzpatrick throws a career-high 31 touchdowns last season against just 15 INTs.

Who would have thought that all the good feelings of a FitzMagic season would be gone by March?

He made $3.25 million last season when he put together a career year. The Jets don’t seem to be confident that the QB who was there for most of 2015 will be showing up. Otherwise, why are they messing with him?

Teams always try to take care of the quarterback.

The Eagles just signed free agent Chase Daniel to a three-year, $21 million deal with $12 million guaranteed to be the backup to Sam Bradford, who a couple days earlier signed a two-year, $35 million deal with $22 million guaranteed. Daniel has thrown 77 passes in seven seasons, is 1-1 as a starter and never thrown more than 38 passes in a season.

Is Fitz worth more to the Jets than Daniel is to the Eagles? Yes, of course. Based on the market, are the Jets low-balling Fitz? Yes.

Bradford’s $17.5 million average and the $18 million average Brock Osweiler received from the Texans in his four-year, $72 million deal with $37 million guaranteed, are out of whack, but speak to how desperate teams are for quarterbacks. Fitz is not an $18 million player.

For now, until they get the franchise QB they’ve been looking for the last 40 years, Fitz is the best the Jets have. He’s a grown up after dealing with Mark Sanchez and Smith, who were kids. They can’t wait him out and make him come crawling back.

He’s a Harvard guy and is smarter than that.

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