And did Douglas have anything to do with hiring the coaching staff? Remember, this is not the (same) old Jets organization chart that made management and coaching independent - it's on him!
At this moment it looks like he has let the strength of the team become a weakness. He needs to repair the Dline ASAP.. unless Saleh and Ulbrich can manage to get the current group back up to the expected level of performance and save his ass.
It's too late now. Barring the miracle of Reddick showing up (which won't even help the run defense all that much anyway), this is the group we're going to have this season. At least the games will be shorter because the other team will just ram it down our throats game after game. It'll be interesting to see how many passes Jacoby Brissett actually throws on Thursday night. Could be another one of those games like the Buffalo/Pats game a few years ago where the Pats only tried 1 or 2 passes all night. Ironic that what was once the single greatest strength that both Douglas and Saleh had will ultimately be what gets them fired.
This is what I fear will happen too. A trade for Quinton Jefferson, who Douglas let walk, is circulating the rumor mill.
I mean it's really not hard to find a fat-bodied DT for early downs in this league, but it also wasn't hard to find a QB better than Trevor Siemian last season and Joe Douglas sat there with his thumb up his ass the whole time while replacement QBs were signed and traded for all around him.
It apparently is for Joe Douglas. He's been really bad at finding people to play in the trenches, which is funny because we were told over and over again (and by the same people that told us that this roster was top tier) that the trenches were his "strength".
