Jamal Adams cut from Detriot Lions practice squad. https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profo...ews/lions-cut-jamal-adams-from-practice-squad Thread should probably be moved to NFL Forum at this point, but wow.
Not surprised. He doesn't do anything well that you need a safety to do well and its been compounded horribly by his age, injury history, and personality. Dumping him while his stock was so over-inflated was the best move JD ever made.
It was one of a couple of moves that allowed him to convince a whole bunch of people that he was a much better GM than he was. Trading Adams and then having Sauce and Wilson fall into his lap during the 2022 first round made him look much better than he actually was to a lot of people who wanted to believe that we finally had a GM who knew what he was doing, despite a mountain of evidence that was already pointing to the contrary.
100% agree. If not for that trade and the resulting draft capital, Douglas's legacy would be as one of the worst GM's the Jets have ever seen.
Well at this point we have 1 game left and everyone is fired anyway. When I posted that originally it was october, I thought we had a shot at making a playoff run and should try to upgrade. Now? yeah no moves needed
Thank Mike McCagnan. In that draft he took FOUR defensive backs and three receivers. Zero OL or DL drafted that year. Obviously Mike MacMoron thinks the game is played exclusively outside the numbers. And THEN after the jets went 5-11 the following season, Chris Johnson added two more guaranteed years to MacMoron's contract. Can anyone say "clueless?"
Yah…dude never drafted OL higher than round 3 I think…maybe he had one 2nd rounder in there I can’t recall if that Conn OL was Mac or not? But he came out and said he didn’t value OL high in the draft. He’s also the guy who passed on both Mahomes and Watson because he thought he already had his QB in Hackenburg. He’s also the guy who drafted DTs back to back years. He’s also the guy who drafted a safety in the top ten. Talk about a complete lack of vision and understanding of positional value. To build a strong roster, you need to strategically understand the importance of positions (i.e., QB, OL, etc.) so you target the right positions higher in the draft, and then you need to be an astute evaluator of talent at those spots. I think JD drafted the right positions, but he missed on the specific players too often (Becton, Mims, Moore, etc.). Mac had none of that…he was awful all around.
Passing on Mahomes when we desperately needed a QB though is something that is unforgivable. Then he actually drafted what looks like a good QB in Sam, and never protected him or gave them weapons or a coach to develop. JD then proceeded doing exactly the same, but at least he did not miss on Mahomes type of player and did value right positions, even though could not really draft well beyond obvious consensus picks. Hence, I would rate JD a little higher than Mac, but again we are talking about some of the worst GMs in Jets history here.
