Absolutely--I have been singing that song all year! JJ, McDonald, Kiko and Sherwood are all 3-4 LBs IMO. Get 3 big guys up front to "block" for the LBs and let them make plays.
Poor clock management? Why don't the jets hire a clock management coach, like Herm did w the jets? A head coach that needs a separate "clock management" coach has no business being a head coach IMO.
That WAS the beginning of the end for Douglas when he used the 15th overall on a 1 down edge rusher and traded a 3 down lineman (JFK) for peanuts. Those two moves are still biting the jets in the butt. Dumb shit.
It's unbelievable that a professional GM would do something like this. Pretty much the entire board was begging for an offensive player. The consensus on this board was WR JSN. McD was rated by pretty much everyone as a second round player and we already had Huff. JD didn't even consider JSN, his fallback option was TE Michael Mayer, who actually did go in the second round. This is just unprofessional level of incompetence. He then gives up very good Edge starter JFM for nothing because we have Clemons. Again every single person on this board said this was insane. Literally no one liked that move. Then he does not tag nor makes an offer and loses Huff because he already drafted McD. I don't understand how a full time professional GM can make these moves. Which is another reason why I keep saying JD was probably the worst Jets GM in recent memory, especially considering how many years he got. I know people criticized MacCagnan, but for all his faults the guy drafted a franchise QB. JD was the one that got rid of him! And gave him arguably the worst supporting cast in NFL history so that we never could know how good Sam could me. Just a terrible GM, one of the worst in the history of the team.
Yes all true and a terrible course of decisions by JD However, let’s not forget that there were plenty of opinions on this board getting very sick of JFM at the time as well…he was a fucking roughing the passer penalty machine…and often at the worst possible times…I remember his penalties wiping out picks and causing us games…so maybe the issue wasn’t so much getting rid of JFM but doing it for such a low return of a 5th rounder…
Agree with 90% of this. The only thing, and it's admittedly nit-picky, is that I'd say JD was our most damaging GM as opposed to worst. Mac was a worse GM from a drafting/trading perspective, but JD did more overall damage because he was a bad GM who was good at convincing Woody that the team's failures were always someone else's fault. Douglas scapegoated everyone and it led to him inexplicably lasting 6 years here. Most GMs of his caliber last half that long, but Douglas recognized an easy mark in Woody and used it to his advantage.
Seems like a small minority: https://forums.theganggreen.com/threads/jfm-traded-to-denver-for-2026-6th-rounder.100134/ Mostly everyone was rightfully against this trade, in spite a few stupid penalties, including yourself
To be fair, doesn't the head coach have many decisions to make at once? On the other hand, he can't make every decision and much of the game time decision-making has to be delegated. Maybe that's a big challenge for a 1st time head coach. Deciding how decisions are made during the game and who makes them.
