No one is talking about JD being on the clock as much as Wilson. JD isn't MacCagnan or Idzik. He's made some good signings and some bad. JD has not "lit it up". He's batting roughly .500 and if it continues this way, we're on the upswing, but it will take longer than the 6 years Chris Johnson gave him. Things are at a critical stage right now in both JD's tenure as GM and the Jets as a viable football franchise. JD chooses well and the Jets will be back to relevancy. If he fcks up, they're no worse off than they are today. I can't imagine the pressure he's under right now. Idzik fckd up 11 out of the 12 picks he had. MacCagnan didn't exactly lite it up either. Now we have JD. All the good wishes and optimism won't mean shit if JD fcks this draft up. I dunno what happened but the 49's didn't trade up to 3 instead of 2 without some inside info as to what the Jets were gonna do. Fact is, JD is on the clock as well as the Jet organization. Chris Johnson hired JD and being the Owner's brother, is pretty much bulletproof. All the goodwill JD has built up will start to erode if this team doesn't start winning PDQ. That starts with the 2021 NFL Draft. Don't fck it up JD.
I don't think he screws up the first two rounds, there's enough talent there to come away with some solid players (QB, CB, OL) without reaching. He *does* need to prove that he's the first GM since, I don't know when, who can actually get value from Rounds 3, 4 and 5. His 2020 mid-rounders don't look markedly better than the crap that Idzik picked up.
Bryce Hall says hello, guy was a steal and is going to have the 2nd CB position locked down for years to come.
So was our punter. JD is already head and shoulders better than his predecessors. We know nothing about Morgan nor Clark yet for starters.
So you're saying not to look for any tangible improvement until almost the end of JD's tenure? I don't think that's acceptable. This is year 3? Time to show us some improvement. Doesn't have to be a quantum leap, but it does have to be noticeable on the field and frankly, on TV for the fanbase to see and feel.
all 3 of them still have some upsides. Morgan has the arm for NY going off all the draft reports, he just needed to learn, I am sure Gase will have grounded him well, sigh. Clark, injured but supposedly trained with the firsts later on but again Gase wouldn't risk playing him because Gase. Zuniga, injured again but erm well two out of three then
No. Just responding to your last line....it starts with the 2021 draft, that’s all. I think this team will be much improved thanks to a much better CS which he picked, and I see good things from his one and only draft. Year one gave him zero free agency and no draft. We shall see how this draft yells in a year or two now.
True.. He still has to do better than both prior GM"s given everything JD has done to stockpile meaningful picks.
As we both know.. Its about wins and losses. A year or two from now puts JD on the back end of his contract. We'll know just how well our neophyte GM has done by then. Parcells said it best: " You are what your record says you are". That goes for GM's too.
Agree completely. Here is my take.....if he hits with a stud QB that has the making of a FQB, we have a decent season, all his prior sins might be forgiven.
Yes, this is the "turning point" for Douglas where we'll either see that he's well on his way to building a contender that begins contending in 2022, or he isn't, and we can begin the "Fire Douglas" watch.
