No one, aside from Bill Belichick, has more power than Jon Gruden. And so Gruden handpicked Mike Mayock as his general manager in Oakland.
It is a true partnership only because Gruden has implicit trust in Mayock as a football man and elite talent evaluator.
Because of the Jets ownership’s recent buttfumbling, Adam Gase was knighted with enough power to assist Christopher Johnson in their GM search.
Which ended Friday night with the triumphant hiring of Joe Douglas.
The apple of Adam’s eye.
Gase gets his man.
And maybe, just maybe, Johnson gets his strategic thinker.