Jets GM Joe Douglas has a clear plan for the Jets’ moving forward. Here are some of this thoughts on that plan. . .
On building a football culture…
Douglas: The plan is to create the best culture in sports. What do I mean by that? I think the best culture, it’s a self-sustaining entity where professionalism, leadership, it’s transferred from one generation of players to the next. You see that in every great team. Every great team has that culture. That’s what we’re going to try to create here.
On entertaining trades offers for Le’Veon Bell..
Douglas: Like I said before, if teams do call, I’m going to listen. How those conversations go, I can’t speak to that, that’s hypothetical. But, when teams call, I will listen.
On if Jamal Adams is untouchable…
Douglas: I will say again, when teams call, you listen, but how serious things get after the initial call, that depends on the other team. Like I said, it never was serious with Jamal (getting traded in late October), things never got to a really serious stage with him at the trade deadline.
On Sam Darnold…
Douglas: Talk about toughness and talk about adversity. Not many guys faced more adversity then Sam, as far as, dealing with the mono and then some rough patches during the year. Sam has earned (respect) from everyone in this building, especially the locker room, for his ability to handle adversity, to come back, play really good football.
On doing something about all the injuries..
Douglas: My initial thought is that this year is a bit of anomaly as far as the amount of injuries that we sustained as a team. We are in the midst of that research; we are doing a deep dive to as far to what we can do to prevent this from happening again and what we need to implement to make sure that this amount of injuries doesn’t happen.
On attacking his first full off-season as GM…
Douglas: It’s a great opportunity to improve on the strong finish. It’s a great opportunity to bring in the right kind of people, because I do believe that there’s a reason the saying’s been around for so long, ‘You win with people.’ The reason is because you need high character, you need a certain level of toughness, you need the right people within your organization.
On improving the roster this off-season…
Douglas: I do think there is a strong core here of young guys, guys that can be the foundation of a lot of success moving forward. Right now, I feel good about a lot of these young guys and their growth and their arrows pointing up, so we have to keep adding to the culture, we have to keep adding to the locker room.
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