{"id":104430,"date":"2020-11-04T04:11:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T01:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/joe-douglas-has-to-fix-this-jets-mess\/"},"modified":"2020-11-04T04:11:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T01:11:37","slug":"joe-douglas-has-to-fix-this-jets-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joe-douglas-has-to-fix-this-jets-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"#Joe Douglas has to fix this Jets mess"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Joe Douglas has to fix this Jets mess<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Joe Douglas played the part of Jim Lovell on Tuesday afternoon, surveying the wreckage of his green-tinted version of Apollo 13 as it careens ominously toward the dark side of the moon. Like Lovell, Douglas isn\u2019t wholly responsible for all the things that helped the Jets arrive at this perilous place.But he\u2019s in charge. This is his watch. So this is his mess. It may seem like the most basic job requirement of the general<\/a> manager of a sports franchise until you remember some of the other explanations we\u2019ve heard from some of the other men in town who hold the job. Then it\u2019s a genuinely refreshing refrain.<\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately,\u201d he said, \u201cI have to do a better job.\u201d<\/p>\n

He reinforced this belief multiple times during a half-hour Zoom call as the trading deadline passed, some in sweeping and general terms, some in specific ones.<\/p>\n

On the Jets\u2019 ill-fated decision to allow Robby Anderson to leave for the Carolina Panthers, he was candid in his self-assessment: He failed in properly identifying what it would cost to retain the gifted receiver, who took two years and $20 million to migrate to Charlotte, N.C., and provide ex-Jets quarterback Teddy Bridgewater the kind of weapon that the present Jets QB, Sam Darnold, so desperately craves.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve thought about Robby,\u201d Douglas said. \u201cThere\u2019s thousands of decisions that come across your desk and I look at what I could\u2019ve done better. Our guys did a fantastic job analyzing position value. What went wrong with us and Robby is, we thought his value would be even greater than what he signed for in Carolina.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s on me. That\u2019s on us going forward, getting a better handle on player value.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Joe Douglas<\/span>Bill Kostroun<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Douglas\u2019 imperative Tuesday seemed simple: shoulder as much blame as he could, transferring the bulk of the responsibility for this 0-8 debacle to his shoulders from those of Adam Gase and from Sam Darnold, the two who\u2019ve had to answer for it the most, both after losses and in between them.<\/p>\n

Now, on one hand it is the proper thing to do. Douglas is the boss, after all, the one who still has four years and $12 million coming to him after this year to figure out where this is all supposed to go. He will almost certainly get that chance.<\/p>\n

He is clearly on more solid footing than his coach \u2014 who will need some kind of Jedi mind trick to keep his job after this year \u2014 and his quarterback, whose time here has already expired in the mind of many Jets fans with visions of Trevor Lawrence or Justin Fields dancing in their imaginations.<\/p>\n

But this is the last mea culpa he\u2019ll be allowed to offer. This is the only time he\u2019ll be able to apologize for his role in greasing the Jets to whatever 0-16 or 1-15 hellscape is awaiting them by year\u2019s end. Accountability is an admirable trait. But success is the more useful skill when it comes to the task of putting together a winning football team.<\/p>\n

The Jets are projected to have more available cap space than anyone in the offseason, and Douglas agreed he will need to utilize that to help bridge the gaping talent hole that separates the Jets from just about everyone else in the NFL.<\/p>\n