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What Jets GM learned helping Seahawks build Super Bowl team

John Idzik plans on finding some time this week to see some old friends.

The Jets general manager will take time out from his team’s personnel meetings to visit the Seahawks before Super Bowl XLVIII. Idzik spent six seasons with the Seahawks before leaving last January to join the Jets.

“I’ll drop by and say hello. I don’t want to interrupt them too much,” Idzik told The Post on Monday. “They have some business at hand.”

Idzik was in Seattle in 2010 when new general manager John Schneider and coach Pete Carroll arrived to begin rebuilding the roster. Now, the Seahawks are one win away from being world champions, and they could do it at MetLife Stadium – the home field of Idzik’s Jets.

“It’s a great feeling to see them have success,” Idzik said. “It’s emotional, to be honest, because I’m very close to so many people in that organization and that locker room. To see them get to the point where we all envisioned and to have it right here in my backyard, to be hosting, is pretty special.”

Idzik had known Schneider since the mid-90s, when Idzik was in the personnel department of the Buccaneers and Schneider was a Packers scout.

When Schneider took the job in Seattle, Idzik said his energy was “pervasive” and he had a clear plan for what he wanted to do.

“To put it in simplistic form: In personnel we were just going to clearly identify what was going to work for us in Seattle and leave no stone unturned,” Idzik said. “That’s thrown around kind of loosely, but I think that first year in 2010 with John we may have set an NFL record for transactions. We really worked it pretty hard.”

They had 284 transactions that first year as they worked to turn over the roster. Idzik was the vice president of football administration and worked closely with Schneider and Carroll as they rebuilt the roster.

Idzik said they did not just chase the big-name free agents but explored every avenue of player acquisition to find players they felt fit the organization. It is the same model Idzik now employs with the Jets.

“I think that’s what differentiates John and the Seahawks,” Idzik said. “It wasn’t just going after talent. It wasn’t just going after guys that really stood out where they were. It was identifying who was a Seahawk. It sounds a little familiar, right?”

When he came to the Jets last January, Idzik said he could sense some similarities to the feeling around the Seahawks in 2010 when they were coming off two seasons of no playoffs.

“I did see parallels when I first came in here,” Idzik said. “I think there was a certain perception of the Jets and the organization. It was a head-scratcher for me because we have tremendous people in this building. When I first came in and I first started to be introduced to everybody, get indoctrinated here, I got that same sense. We’ve said that. There’s a good vibe here. There’s a good vibe in the locker room. There’s a good vibe in the training room, equipment room, personnel. We’ve got people with a like-minded cause. There are definitely some parallels. That’s what made it so exciting for me to come to the Jets.”

Idzik now hopes the Jets can carry out the plan as well as the Sehawks have.