Joe Douglas was Released as the newest general Director in the history of This New York Jets on Tuesday.
The marriage of Douglas and Gang Green reunites the GM with coach Adam Gase with whom he spent a year with the Chicago Bears: Douglas as director of faculty and Gase as offensive coordinator in 2015. It had been from the Windy City in which the two broke up a bond which helped facilitate Douglas’ engage in New York a week.
“I’m excited to be working with Adam again following building a special bond in Chicago,” Douglas said in his opening statement Tuesday. “We share a vision of building a staff and that I look forward to partnering with him getting this app to a location where we’re always competing for championships each and every year.”
Douglas elaborated in their friendship after:”I do not believe that you can discuss that relationship without speaking about Chicago. … I’ll never forget Adam was that the guy who came and reached out to me almost immediately and we struck up a friendship. He invited us over his house, we could share dinner, we could talk ball and it just was clear from the very beginning that we share a good deal of the exact visions about staff work, about team building which was going to build a championship program.”
Additionally comfortable with his brand new team-building spouse, Gase told colleagues of Douglas, per the New York Daily News,”He probably enjoys my insanity just a little bit.”
Douglas’ sunny language about his connection with Gase exemplifies a death from the Mike Maccagnan-Gase marriage that lasted less than four months. Gase was hired to replace fired coach Todd Bowles in January however Maccagnan was kept on, leading to an arranged marriage that didn’t work out, to say the very least.
When New York stopped Maccagnan after the draft, Douglas was named as a favorite to succeed the GM within one hour of the news breaking. Douglas, a product of the Ozzie Newsome scouting tree, has been viewed as one of the rising general director prospects. The Jets interviewed four candidates, but fell in love with Douglas and reportedly ended up paying him twice what they originally offered on a six-year thing.
Despite turning down the Jets’ initial offers, Douglas said Tuesday that New York is where he wants to be, partially because of Gase.
“I believe my relationship with Adam played a great role in this but just the chance to spend quality time with (Jets owner) Christopher Johnson,” Douglas said. “I can’t tell you how special that was for me. I believe we share a lot of the exact same vision of what it takes to win. of partnership and teamwork.”
That vision includes a hunt for players who”never stops” Douglas made a point to emphasize the Jets’ No. 3 spot in the waiver order, stating,”We are going to comb through each waiver wire that’s out.” He’s already made a transaction, too, releasing tight end Neal Sterling on Tuesday.
It had been his first of several moves as the general director of Gang Green, most of which he said will be collaborative within the Jets’ facility.
“I am not a yes man and I have a whole lot of conviction when it comes to belief systems and players that I enjoy,” Douglas told NFL Network’s Kimberly Jones. “It is not just me. I expect that from everyone on the staff, scouts and trainers. Should you do the job, in case you’ve got an opinion, then we should all hear it. At the conclusion of the day, we ought to hash it out.
“We may not all agree, but we’re going to do what’s best for the New York Jets.”
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