CORTLAND — For the sake of the fans, especially Jets fans who have endured a litany of unimaginable torment across 42 years, the madness has to stop.

Darrelle Revis vs. the Jets is a public spat now that the best cornerback in the NFL is officially a holdout, and an unsavory he-said, he-said battle in the court of public opinion is no way to chase a Super Bowl dream.

Coach Rex Ryan’s Jets begin two-a-days today, and they will begin them with the best player on the team alone and embittered on Revis Island.

The Jets should never have let it come to this.

They are playing with fire and will have no one to blame but themselves if they burn in Darrelle Hell.

Revis wants to be a Jet For Life. The Jets say they want him to be a Jet For Life.

Then make him a Jet For Life.

“We have a fundamental disagreement on total compensation,” general manager Mike Tannenbaum said last night. “Two things we can agree upon is, he outperformed his contract, we want to reward him for that . . . He has three years to go . . . so given those two variables, how can we find a landing spot that works for both sides?”

Are you in the ballpark?

“Obviously Darrelle feels that we’re far enough apart that he didn’t want to be here,” Tannenbaum said.

Get him in the ballpark, and get him there now.

“We offered a long-term deal that would have made him a Jet for life,” Tannenbaum said. “We offered a short-term deal. We offered to get together. And all three of those were rebuffed.”

The only good news: the sides are talking. And this is not take it or leave it.

“I will say that we felt like those two offers were substantial offers, they were fair offers,” Tannenbaum said.

One problem: Revis was insulted by both offers.

Asked to characterize Revis’ frame of mind, his agent, Neil Schwartz, told The Post: “His silence is deafening.”

He said: We’re flexible, sit down and talk to us face-to-face.

He said: You have not offered one penny of fully guaranteed money, and until Woody Johnson loosens the purse strings to Fort Knox, what is there to talk about on Hard Knocks?

The Biggest Loser: A fan base that, even after a 50 percent refund, has been praying for championship bang for its PSL bucks.

“He’s the best defensive player in the league,” Damien Woody said, “so obviously you want somebody like that, but we understand what the situation is, and when he gets here, then he’ll get here and we’ll go to work.”

“Revis is an adult, I’m trying to reassure everybody that, he’ll take care of everything as professionally as he can, so don’t stress about it,” Kris Jenkins said.

Except that Revis is an adult who lives in mortal fear of the kind of injury that led the Jets to give up on Leon Washington before he could hit the jackpot.

“I understand completely,” Woody said. “It’s a situation where maybe you look at Leon Washington from last year. For any player, that’s a scary situation, to have that type of injury and then next thing you know, you might not be the same player, or management might not think of you the same. So, I completely understand where Darrelle is coming from, and I’m sure he’s gonna do what he feels is necessary for him and his family.”

Woody understands the other side, too.

“With the uncertainty of the CBA, that’s big,” he said. “Not a lot of people are talking about it because of the upcoming season, but that’s the big gorilla in the room. It’s complicating a lot of things, not just for Darrelle, but for a lot of guys around the National Football League, especially with restricted free agents.”

Woody was asked how he thinks the rest of the league views the Jets.

“I think there’s a lot of despise toward the Jets, with all the media attention, and kinda getting anointed already and stuff like that so I’m sure we’re gonna have a big bull’s-eye on our chest but that’s OK, that’s the way we like it,” he said. “We’re just a bunch of tough guys that feel like there’s no team out there really tougher than us, that can go out here and really get it done against us.

“I feel like we’re The Team to Beat.”

It is risky business and bad business to alienate your best player.

“I’m paid to solve problems,” Tannenbaum said.

For the sake of generations of Jets fans, for the sake of this season, solve it.