{"id":65707,"date":"2025-05-20T19:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/65707\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T19:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:56:09","slug":"joe-douglas-teaches-ny-jets-key-lesson-in-executive-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/65707\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Douglas teaches NY Jets key lesson in executive needs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former New York Jets<\/a> general manager Joe Douglas failed to produce a winner<\/a> in the six seasons he led the organization.<\/p>\n

Many fans and analysts would call that a failure of a hiring. In many ways, that\u2019s all that Douglas can be seen as. The organization failed to win more than seven games under his eye, and crumbled under the lack of a quarterback<\/a> or competent coaching<\/a> staff to lead the way.<\/p>\n

Those failings will overshadow much of what Douglas did well. New York had an excellent draft in 2022 that brought Pro Bowl-caliber players<\/a> with the first four picks. They also added some key late-round and undrafted free agents to the roster.<\/p>\n

The 30-64 record speaks for itself, though. With Douglas returning to the Philadelphia Eagles as a scout, he leaves behind an important lesson the Jets must learn.<\/p>\n

Jets\u2019 Important Lesson<\/p>\n

When Douglas was hired by the Jets following the 2019 draft, he came as one of the league\u2019s top executives looking for a general manager job.<\/p>\n

New York was not wrong to target Douglas. His resume was impressive. Learning at the altar of both Howie Roseman in Philly and Ozzie Newsome with the Baltimore Ravens made Douglas something of a commodity at the time of his hiring.<\/p>\n

It just didn\u2019t work out. <\/p>\n

The same can be said for many of New York\u2019s recent coaching hirings as well. Robert Saleh was a top coaching candidate when he was hired by the team in 2021, as was Todd Bowles in 2015. Those may have been head coaches, but the lesson remains the same for New York.<\/p>\n

Just because the Jets can hire the top name in any coach or GM search, it doesn\u2019t mean they are the right guy for the job.<\/p>\n

Just because someone may have the pedigree as an assistant for Hall-of-Fame executives, it doesn\u2019t mean they have the same touch. <\/p>\n

Those examples can be passed down throughout history. Douglas may have been the celebrated hire at the time, but he ended up being the wrong man for the job. He couldn\u2019t find a head coach (something Roseman in Philadelphia is never tasked with) and he couldn\u2019t find a quarterback.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why the Jets should feel comfortable with the hiring of Darren Mougey as the team\u2019s general manager<\/a> and Aaron Glenn as the head coach. Both candidates had strong resumes, but neither was considered the \u201ccan\u2019t miss\u201d person in the pool.<\/p>\n

That isn\u2019t a bad thing. <\/p>\n

New York\u2019s goal was to find the right people to turn around their franchise. They believe they now have that with Mougey and Glenn. <\/p>\n

If Douglas\u2019 failure taught the organization anything, it\u2019s that their solutions may not come from the candidate everyone around the league is talking about. It will come from people who are respected, even if they are not the most popular choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former New York Jets general manager Joe Douglas failed to produce a winner in the six seasons he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[7,226,488,1917,255,2321,2097,6,4098],"class_list":{"0":"post-65707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-jets","10":"tag-joe-douglas","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-jets","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkjets","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-ny-jets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114541925800791759","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}