Robert Saleh seems to get the brunt of the criticism from Jets fans for the team’s string of double-digit losing seasons, but as Joe Douglas prepared to speak to reporters on Wednesday, Sal said it was time for the GM to start catching some heat.
“Joe Douglas might be a bigger problem than Saleh,” Sal said. “He gets overlooked. We all go at Saleh, we go at Woody [Johnson], and Joe is kind of in the middle.
“Just because he was better than Mike Maccagnan of John Idzik, it doesn’t mean he’s been good. He’s done some good things and brought in some talent, but has be built a good team? Not from where I’m sitting. Not from what the record says. He also butchered the most important pick he had in Zach Wilson. And not just the pick, the development.”
Douglas has hit some home runs in the draft, whether it be Sauce Gardner or Garrett Wilson, but Zach Wilson was a miss that set the franchise back, and the flaws in the roster’s construction were made glaringly obvious after Aaron Rodgers went down with a season-ending Achilles injury just four plays into his Jets tenure. So, Sal says it’s time for Douglas to get the same criticism that comes Saleh and Johnson’s way.
“Why is he being absolved here,” Sal said. “As opposed to Saleh and Woody?”
