Through Mike Tannenbaum’s decades of working in the NFL, as a front-office employee, an executive and now an analyst with ESPN, he can’t remember a situation that compares to the staredown taking over training camp in Florham Park, where Haason Reddick — acquired just over four months ago — wants a trade and the Jets want their edge rusher to know, without mincing any words, that they won’t grant his wish.

The Darrelle Revis holdout Tannenbaum navigated while serving as the Jets’ general manager was different. Gang Green drafted and watched their first-round pick blossom into a star by the time Revis’ dilemma backed right up to Week 1 in 2010. Reddick, 29, showed up to his fourth NFL team after the March trade, held an introductory press conference and didn’t hint — or anything close to it — at a potential standoff. That sequence made a “band-aid or a long-term deal” seem likely, Tannenbaum said.

“I just don’t remember the last time a player said they were gonna come and then they didn’t show up,” he told Sports+ on Tuesday.

That’s where the trade request entered the picture. It introduced the latest wrinkle in a brief yet complicated relationship. Reddick doesn’t have to show up. The Jets don’t have to trade Reddick. They could let him keep sitting out … and keep sitting out … and keep sitting out until their season ends, and then the sides could do this all again next year after his contract tolls.

But it becomes an incredibly complicated and delicate situation for general manager Joe Douglas to navigate. There are “pretty gloomy” days during these standoffs, Tannenbaum said. Some days are more difficult than others. And the challenges aren’t always easy to solve.

“This is a player that’s never played for the organization before,” Tannenbaum said, “so I totally understand when they came out and said, ‘Hey, we’re only gonna talk to the players and worry about the players that are in the building.’ He’s never really been part of the organization.”

Once — or if — Reddick returns, the fragilities surrounding the situation shift to the coaching staff. How long does Reddick need to build up? Could he only give the Jets 10 or 15 snaps for a few weeks? Does the threat of a soft-tissue injury become concerning? The Jets haven’t arrived at that juncture yet, Tannenbaum said, and defensive line coach Aaron Whitecotton reiterated Monday after practice that he’s not worried about Reddick getting acclimated upon a return.

“The biggest comfort for me in all of that is he’s a pro,” Whitecotton said, before news of the trade request broke. “His reputation across this league is impeccable. I know he’ll be ready to rock, and once he gets here, we’ll put that plan as like any player who comes to practice. No different than the guys the first day, he’s not gonna go out there and play 90 plays in a row.”

If Tannenbaum, who held the title of Jets GM from 2006 until the end of the 2012 season, was involved with either side, he said, he’d ensure the two sides agreed to not leak any developments while still negotiating. Nothing good follows from verbal sparring in statements and sound bites. Then, Tannenbaum would attempt to arrange a face-to-face meeting between both sides.

But Reddick didn’t show up for OTAs. For voluntary and mandatory minicamp, either. Reddick started to rack up fines, and that carried over into training camp, when he opted to not report and instead became subject to fines of $50,000 per day. With Tuesday the 22nd day of his holdout, Reddick, who arrived in exchange for a conditional third-round pick in 2026, is already subject to more than $1 million in fines. That number will only keep ballooning.

The Jets want Reddick to report to camp — to simply be around the team practicing — before alterations to his contract happen. He’ll make $14.25 million in base salary for 2024. And they don’t want to send the wrong message to other players within the organization.

“Really try to keep things out of the media, things that you can, which is really hard obviously in that market,” Tannenbaum said. “And then try to keep the communication going and knowing that there’s always a solution in a salary-cap system between incentives and cash flow and guarantees and contingent guarantees, there’s enough deal points out there to solve the challenges — and typically the best deal is the deal that neither side really likes. That’s probably the best deal for the situation.

“And I remember when we did [Revis’] deal, there were parts of it that I didn’t like, and I’m sure there was parts of it that they didn’t like. But you just try to find enough middle ground where both sides more forward.”

The trade request doesn’t mark the end of Reddick’s time with the Jets. Tee Higgins, before singing his franchise tag, requested a trade from the Bengals in March, and he’s still there. Same with Brandon Aiyuk and the 49ers in July, though the contract situations are different. Revis never requested a trade in 2010, but his situation was also different from Reddick’s. The Jets had just made the AFC Championship the previous season. Revis contributed — and even propelled — that run. The cornerback was part of the Jets’ core, and he knew it.

It might be difficult to find a trade partner at this point, Tannenbaum said, despite Reddick making the last two Pro Bowls and collecting 50.5 sacks across the last four seasons. The Jets’ season starts in four weeks. Rosters aren’t as malleable now as they might be at different points of the NFL calendar.

“If this is like the first day of free agency and a whole bunch of teams need a pass rusher and they know where they are from a cap and cash standpoint, yeah, I think you probably can figure out some sort of trade,” Tannenbaum said. “I think it’s just, sitting here in the middle of August, it’s just harder. It just is.”

So the Jets, for better or for worse or by their own negotiating tactic, are stuck with Reddick. And Reddick, for better or for worse or by the sheer reality of how contracts work in the NFL, is stuck with the Jets.

Solutions to the problem exist. Tannenbaum’s experience with Revis proved that.

Sometimes, it just takes way longer than expected to get there.

Today’s back page

Jazz confusion

For the first time since the Yankees acquired him ahead of the MLB trade deadline, Jazz Chisholm Jr. wasn’t in their lineup Tuesday night.

It left a glaring void, too. Through his first 14 games with the Yankees, the third baseman — not the outfielder or the middle infielder, as he had been earlier in his career — had 18 hits, seven homers and 11 RBIs, but the previous night, he slid into home plate and exited with a left elbow injury.

Manager Aaron Boone said before Tuesday’s game that Chisholm has a UCL injury and likely would be placed on the injured list. He said the Yankees are still attempting to determine the severity and whether Chisholm needs surgery.

If anything, Chisholm’s absence provided a reminder of how delicate improving a roster at the trade deadline can be. For months, the Yankees were projected as buyers. Everything built toward which players — and which packages — could possibly define their deadline, depending on which dominoes fell and which deals general manager Brian Cashman decided to make.

When 6 p.m. arrived July 30, that included Chisholm. It also included relievers Mark Leiter Jr. and Enyel De Los Santos. Injuries can change everything, though, and when they defeated the White Sox, 4-1, on Tuesday night, the Yankees’ lineup, the one that needed to get upgraded because of its underwhelming numbers outside of Aaron Judge and Juan Soto, was right back to where it was in the pre-Chisholm era.

It helps when Soto hits three home runs, of course.

The pair of relievers haven’t exactly starred since arriving, either. Leiter, after another shaky outing Tuesday night, has a 6.14 ERA across eight games, and De Los Santos’ Yankees ERA ballooned to 14.21 after he allowed seven runs on eight hits Monday.

Until Chisholm returns, the Yankees will have to work with the same lineup that needed changing for so long. One slide changed everything.

Ball in

With the Olympics over and Team USA’s streak of eight straight gold medals intact, the WNBA season resumes Thursday.

And from awards to the final standings, there are plenty of storylines surrounding the league’s final months:

Last rookie standing

It might be difficult to pick a Rookie of the Year until Angel Reese and the Sky travel to Connecticut and Caitlin Clark and the Fever face the Mystics to conclude the regular season on Sept. 19. Maybe — just maybe — the award race will have a clear winner by then. They’ve each made strong cases.

Reese has collected 15 consecutive double-doubles and sits one-tenth of a rebound behind A’ja Wilson for the league lead (12.0 to 11.9). Clark set the WNBA single-game assist record in July with 19, and leads the league with 8.2 per game. She sped past Sue Bird to become the fastest player to reach 400 points and 200 assists. Will Clark’s turnovers — a league-high 5.6 per game — sink her case?

Both will be faces of the WNBA for years to come. Both could crack the Team USA roster for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.

But only one of them can win this award, and the chase for that honor will serve as a backdrop to all of their remaining games — especially when Clark and Reese meet for the final time this season Aug. 30.

Could it be unanimous?

Barring a serious injury or an unforeseen second-half tear, Wilson will win MVP. That has become clear. But will Wilson earn every top vote and take her third MVP unanimously?

Las Vegas guard Kelsey Plum campaigned for her teammate before the league’s month-long Olympic break, saying in a July press conference that “it’s a unanimous vote this year, you feel me?” Earlier this week, Wilson won the Olympics MVP award after averaging 18.7 points, 10.2 rebounds and 2.7 blocks in Paris. Those numbers won’t count toward WNBA voting, but the result, and the award itself, is likely a precursor to what could follow in September.

What will the Liberty’s lineup look like at the end of September?

The league-leading Liberty (21-4) hit the Olympic break on a four-game winning streak and winners of nine of 10 (with a loss in the Commissioner’s Cup final mixed in, too).

The Sun (2.5 games back), Lynx and Storm are chasing the Liberty for the top spot. A surge from the Aces could complicate that, too. But another postseason berth for this Liberty superteam is all but clinched. The lineup and the rotations they use in those high-stakes games, though, remains a critical question.

Betnijah Laney-Hamilton underwent a “minor” procedure on her right knee July 16, and the team estimated that it’d take between four and six weeks for her to return. She has dealt with knee injuries throughout the season and her career, too. Kayla Thornton and Leonie Fiebich both helped overcome Laney-Hamilton’s lost production and her defensive spark.

Breanna Stewart, Sabrina Ionescu and Jonquel Jones will fill three of the starting spots around a recuperated Laney-Hamilton. Those won’t change, barring injury. Courtney Vandersloot, their point guard and a former All-Star, likely will continue starting, but at times, the Liberty have favored Fiebich in their closing five.

Turning away from Vandersloot in favor of Fiebich in fourth quarters was an unusual tweak from Sandy Brondello. The rest of the season will likely determine whether that was an anomaly.

Any deals?

With the Aug. 20 trade deadline approaching, there could be some deals made within the week after the league resumes — and ESPN reported it could be a more active deadline than usual with teams having more salary-cap space to maneuver than they typically do. The Sun already acquired Marina Mabrey from the Sky before the break. And the performance of players in the Olympics — including France’s Gabby Williams and Marine Johannes — could also lead to overseas-based players returning to the United States for the stretch run.

The race for Paige Bueckers

At the other end of the standings, down where the Fever hovered the past few years before collecting top picks and then pushing toward a playoff berth, another race is taking shape.

Paige Bueckers will likely be the No. 1 pick after her final season at Connecticut. The Sparks, based on their cumulative record from the past two seasons, currently have the best lottery odds to land the No. 1 pick, per Tankathon, followed by the Mystics and the Wings. If Los Angeles drafted Bueckers, she’d pair with Cameron Brink — out the rest of the season due to a torn ACL — and All-Star Dearica Hamby to provide a jolt to an offense that averages the second-fewest points (79.0) this season.

Prospect of the day

Jack Wenninger delivered another gem for High-A Brooklyn. The Mets right-hander delivered five scoreless innings Tuesday night, yielding two hits and striking out eight.

The 2023 sixth-round pick has allowed just one run in two August starts. Wenninger, 22, now has whiffed 119 batters in 97 total innings.

— Andrew Battifarano

What we’re reading 👀

⚾ The Mets lost ugly to the A’s in their return to Citi Field: the bats stayed quiet, Paul Blackburn got lit up, J.D. Martinez got plunked, random relievers taunted them. The Mets need much better to keep up in the NL playoff race, writes The Post’s Jon Heyman.

🎙 Legendary Rangers play-by-play voice Sam Rosen announced he would retire following the 2024-25 season, his 40th on MSG Networks.

🏈 Here’s a treat for Giants fans: Brian Burns is wowing teammates on the practice field. “He brings a whole other level to that defense,” Jalin Hyatt told The Post’s Steve Serby. “Freak of nature.”

🏈 The Post’s Mark Cannizzaro makes the case for Aaron Rodgers to play in a Jets preseason game.

🤸‍♀️ Another aggravating Jordan Chiles headline.