Jets a reminder that winning a big trade doesn’t always lead to rebuild success
NY Post
Let this serve as a reminder of just how difficult a job it is to be the general manager of a football team. Joe Douglas was fired as GM of the Jets on Nov. 19, two days after their latest on-field calamity — a dispiriting 28-27 loss to the Colts at MetLife Stadium.
Douglas’ departure was little lamented by the Jets’ rank-and-file, and in fact seemed inevitable after the unceremonious sacking of coach Robert Saleh after five weeks. Sometimes you can scare up a pretty good debate about the fate of a GM, because unless a guy totally Gettlemans the job, there’s a lot of gray area.
There seemed little of that with Douglas, who was hired thanks to a deep pedigree of winning learned in Philadelphia and was never quite able to translate that 101 miles northeast in Florham Park.
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