Too nice...seriously? I'm not sure if that link isn't simply click bait. There was nothing "in" those couple paragraphs. I don't know about too nice but he sure as hell doesn't have an eye for coaches. It's that or he doesn't have an eye for any player outside of the obvious such as Sauce and G. Wilson. Sure doesn't know how to pick o-line either. SMH
Agreed. Outside of terrible drafting (save 2022), he really OVERVALUES scrub free agents. Forking out contracts over $100M to Brown, Lazard, Uzomah, ,and Tomlinson was idiotic. None of them did squat. Throw in the free agent $$ he gave to Cooks and Lawson--No jets GM ever got less bang for the his free agent bucks then Joe Idiot. Get rid of him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This isn't a personality business, it's a Win NOW business. Regardless of whatever his demeanor or personality is, Joe Douglas sucks at evaluating football talent and he sucks at udnerstanding the inner workings of putting together a winning franchise. Forget all this other Nice guy shit. WTF is this? Pattycakes??!?!? That means diddly squat.
And, sadly, this is pretty much the peak of the past decade aside from that one time back in 2015 when Todd Bowles and Ryan Fitzpatrick fleetingly discovered this thing called competency.
He has mixed results. Good drafting. Very good trading. Very good UDFA signings. Very bad free agent signings.
Yeah, the article didn't have much detail, except how the rest of the league perceives him. That confirms my suspicion that he has been too nice, always seeking to get along, build consensus, perhaps letting Saleh have or do what he wants rather than JD being the boss and saying "No, that's not what's best for the team." Also perhaps allowing Woody to meddle rather than sticking to his guns and telling Woody no. He could have done the same thing with regards to personnel. Perhaps that's why Hogan and the guy who was with JD in Baltimore and who left for the Chargers (I think) are gone. Perhaps he listened to them and gave them what they wanted rather than doing what he (JD) thought best. Of course, the opposite could be true, but I don't think so since Hogan was here before and the drafting sucked. That "niceness" could carry over to his judging/hiring of coaches. Perhaps he looks to hire coaches who are nice guys, rather than looking for the best coach regardless of whether they're nice or not.
The article sounds like it's calling Douglas too timid, not too nice. Are the league sources suggesting that Rodgers is de-facto GM and that Douglas let Rodgers push him to the side without a fight? I wonder if the source -- someone named Tony Pauline of Sportskeeda -- is reputable.
I saw him expanding on this article in a YouTube video today - he came across as calm, measured, serious about his work. He has also apparently been to every Jets home game (covid season excepted) since about 1981.
nc, perhaps JD will have an epiphany? he seemed very humbled and humiliated during his season end presser and righly so the arogant prick did nothing to help the team and left HC twisting in the wind. Where is the guy we all thught we were getting duing the advanced billing? He isn't as bad as Mccoffee buthell IMHO his OL is not any better then his predecessors.
I see a lot of Terry Bradway in Douglas in that I thought both really wanted to be "frtends" with the jets players. So they greatly overpaid for guys they liked personally--there's no other reason why Douglas gave Ozomah, a blocking TE, a small fortune and then restructured his contract last offseason. You should restructure only your really valuable players, not scrubs like Uzomah who basically costs the jets the raider game this year with two huge holding penalties, and then dropped a sure touchdown pass later in the year.
