Jets general manager Joe Douglas speaks to the media following training camp in 2019. Credit: Icon Sportswire via Getty Images
This is now Joe Douglas’ team. Every last bit of it.
With Monday’s trade of quarterback Sam Darnold went the last vestige of what came before, and now Douglas will go about a from-the-ground-up rebuilding process that will define his NFL legacy. And there seems to be little in-between about how history will judge the third-year general manager.
He either constructs this hard-luck franchise into a consistent winner led by a highly regarded coach in Robert Saleh and a promising young quarterback almost certain to be Zach Wilson.