In 2007, Jets G.M. Mike Tannenbaum acknowledged that “[t]here are consequences” to spending big money in free agency.

And he didn’t know how right he was.

An anonymous Jets veteran (cough . . . Laveranues Coles . . . cough) has sounded off regarding the recent splurging.

“You pay guys you don’t even know, and the guys in the locker room — the guys that have your back — you don’t give a damn about them,” the unnamed player told Rich Cimini of the New York Daily News.  “It shows where the loyalty is.”

Meanwhile, Tannenbaum says that building through the draft is “still our core belief and philosophy.”

Let’s face it, Tannenbaum and the Jets are caught between a team in their own division and a team in their own town — the Pats and the Giants.

Observed one media insider:  “Signing a declining Damien Woody from a bad Detroit [offensive line] and then changing his position might be the single dumbest move this year. Trading [linebacker Jonathan] Vilma for very little  may be the second, although I’m not sure about his knee.  And he has no clue what to do with [defensive tackle Dewayne] Robertson.

“He ignores the fact that the Giants signed one low-level [free agent] last year and let him go this year. They won because six draft choices contributed a lot.  Tannebaum, who was a money man until he convinced [owner] Woody Johnson that he knew football, can’t draft as well as [Giants G.M.] Jerry Reese.”

The Giants are the toast of New York, the Patriots are the kings of the conference, and in our view the Jets are merely just another mediocre team that is trying too hard escape from quicksand.