Jets first-year general manager Joe Douglas listened to offers for several players but dealt only Leonard Williams at the deadline. Photo Credit: Brad Penner
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — It has been a decadeslong slog for Jets fans, a run of frustration and disappointment and heartbreak and anguish so deep that even the most faithful devotees have stretched the boundaries of their loyalty to this woebegone franchise.
Joe Douglas has only been here 4 1./2 months, but he feels your pain and understands your rage. And so desperately wants to do something — anything — to help.
“I can tell them I understand their frustration,” the Jets’ general manager said Tuesday evening when I asked what he can say to fans of a 1-6 team that has so brutally underachieved in Year 1 of the Douglas-Adam Gase era.