https://x.com/connor_j_hughes/status/1755393801516995048?s=46&t=UJKM0mnVo0eqrea-NSzOmQ Chad Alexander has left to take an assistant GM job with the Chargers. Makes sense since he worked 20 years with Baltimore and the chargers just got their GM from Baltimore. Another high ranking position has opened for the Jets within the last 14 days or so.
I don't know if this is so much a promotion (JD could have easily made him assistant GM as we just fired ours) as opposed to going to the regime, which is fresh and has at least a few years left instead of staying with the one on the hot seat. Which is why Woody should have cleaned house. Our FO/Coaching jobs are extremely undesirable because of this possibly being the last year before the shakeup. I doubt anyone will leave a senior position with a good team be to our assistant GM. It really is all on JD now. A very scary reality...
With Asst. GM and Director of Player Personnel now out, I wonder if JD makes a phone call to McShay for a gig. That would be something outside of the box.
Yeah I think he's really close with Daniel Jeremiah. McShay and Douglas have been friends since they were 18. I'm not sure of Jeremiahs relationship to Douglas though.
I thought he tried to bring Jeremiah in when he just started, but Daniel has a very good gig. I doubt he would drop it to come to the Jets for possibly one year. JD is on his own now pretty much with best people with good jobs unlikely to want to join him now. Woody created this situation by keeping failed regime for an extra year. Short of making SB or at worst AFC championship, they will stay on the hot seat for next year too even if they make play-offs and it will be hard to get good people next year too. JD is going to be very busy...
Packaging Alexander up in the headline as a "rising star in front office world" seems like quite the undeserving stretch.
Yes, let's make no mistake: all these guys including Alexander as a team have failed here. Rex failed twice, so he is in category of his own, but no tears should be shed for this guy either: he didn't help achieve success. The concern is whether JD can get it done just by himself. And maybe that's actually better, but it doe seem like he is short handed.
My 11 year old kid was pretty on the ball during that 2022 draft at being able recognize the surplus value while seeing guys like JJ and Hall fall down the projection draft board. Screaming at the TV both times that they were such an obvious pick for us to be making. His first instinct take at hearing the Jets wanted Rodgers? - "Why Dad? He is too old" Give him another 5 years or so and he'll be ready to make for an equal value replacement here. I might let him skip college if it helps at turning this franchise around.
Fair point, I am pretty sure, JD can just take Connor Rogers' top 300 and that will be a drastic improvement over Rex and Alexander.
Or better yet, he can take the consensus from this board and draft that way and it would be better Honestly, had the team drafted according to the thinking on this board, we’d have had much better success…its crazy to think that as they are supposed to be the professionals with all kinds of access to data and film and shit. And yet, sometimes they overthink it.
Lol this is really funny b/c over the last 3 years JD and Saleh have taken players who aren't even within CR's top 300. LeMichael Perine Zaire Barnes Zuniga (sp?)
Did Joe Douglas bring a single person with him from Philly or anywhere? Even a scout? Did he have prior working experience with anyone in this org?
Chad Alexander had 20 years of experience with the Ravens before coming here. I'm sure him and JD crossed paths together in Balt
