The Jets have taken another step towards an all-out rebuild, firing general manager Joe Douglas a month after canning head coach Robert Saleh.
As the destruction of this regime continues amidst a dreadful 3-8 season, Evan says it was a long time coming for the GM that failed to end the franchise’s playoff drought while whiffing badly on a second overall draft pick in Zach Wilson.
“Joe Douglas was an abomination,” Evan said. “They won 30 games in the five and a half years he was here. While he made some really good picks individually...you can’t miss out on quarterback twice, and he did. Once with a high draft pick in Zach Wilson, and another in Aaron Rodgers.
“If you miss out on the head coach, the quarterback twice, the left tackle, and you can’t build an offensive line, then you have failed at the most important aspects of your job.”
Even after missing on Wilson, Douglas was at the helm for the most hyped Jets season in recent memory, only to watch it collapse into disaster. It led to Saleh being fired last month, and that is when Evan said Douglas was as good as gone as well.
“The moment he got fired was the moment that Woody Johnson usurped him and fired Robert Saleh on his own. That was it. He was dead,” Evan said.
“You can’t survive when your win/loss record is that bad. But you also can’t survive when your owner basically tells you, ‘I’m not gonna allow you to decide on this head coach.’”