GM Gets the Boot: Jet Part Ways With General Manager Amid…
The New York Jets 2024 catastrophe continues as the team waves the white flag on the season. Tuesday, yet another prominent member of the organization takes the fall as the Jets announced that they have fired general manager Joe Douglas just six weeks after relieving head coach Robert Saleh of his duties. At 3-8 on the year, the Jets will now turn their attention to preparing to fix what went horribly wrong this season.
Joe Douglas’s tenure was marred by what could have been
In the immortal words of legendary NFL coach and executive Bill Parcells, “You are what your record says you are.” For Douglas, that means a 30-64 record in six years at the helm of perhaps the most cursed franchise in all of sports.
Unlike GMs of the past, there was a lot to like about Douglas. He cut his teeth as an executive with the Baltimore Ravens from 2000-2015, and then after a brief stint with the Chicago Bears, had a prominent role in the Philadelphia Eagles front office during their Super Bowl-winning season before being hired by the Jets.
Douglas took over an abysmal Jets team in 2019, finally getting the chance to rebuild from the ground up after firing former head coach Adam Gase. On paper, things seemed to be progressing as planned.
After hitting a home run in the 2022 draft selecting Defensive Rookie of the Year Sauce Gardner, Offensive Rookie of the Year Garrett Wilson, and stars Jermaine Johnson and Breece Hall. However, it quickly became clear that Douglas’s hand-picked quarterback, number-two overall pick Zach Wilson, was not the guy to lead the team to the promised land.
Unfortunately, 2024 has seen the worst possible outcomes come to fruition leading us to Douglas’s predictable dismissal.
