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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- The New York Jets do this quarterback dance every few years. For general manager Joe Douglas, its a first. In two decades as an NFL scout and executive, Douglas never has been a top decision-maker in the selection of a quarterback in the first round of the NFL draft. He was the Baltimore Ravens area scout who wrote glowing reports on quarterback Joe Flacco in 2008, but he wasnt the guy who made the final call. From 2017 to 2019, Douglas was in charge of the Philadelphia Ea...

Jets trade Sam Darnold to Panthers: If BYU’s Zach Wilson doesn’t become a star, Joe Douglas is toast | Opinion Updated Apr 05, 2021; Facebook Share And he better be right — or else he’ll go down as yet another failed Jets general manager, like Mike Maccagnan and John Idzik before him. Now that Douglas has traded quarterback Sam Darnold to the Panthers (for a 2021 sixth-round draft pick, plus a second-rounder and fourth-rounder next year), it’s a near lock that Wilson will be the Jets...

Jaguars add 3 more to personnel staff The Jaguars have continued its efforts to rebuild the staff from the ground up, adding three more personnel staff members. Photo by Don Juan Moore/Getty Images The Jaguars are continuing its efforts to re-shape the organization from the ground up under the direction of head coach Urban Meyer and general manager Trent Baalke. Today, the team announced the addition of three people to its personnel department in senior personnel executive Michael Davis, direc...

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- A look at whats happening around the New York Jets: 1. (Search) party of one: The Jets worst season in nearly a quarter-century will end around 4 p.m. ET Sunday, and then the real work begins. In perhaps his last big move as the Jets acting owner, CEO Christopher Johnson is expected to fire coach Adam Gase. At that point, Johnson should take one for the team and announce he will yield to general manager Joe Douglas as the lead in the search for Gases replacement. No search...

Jim Harbaugh staying at Michigan? Why he wouldn’t have been good fit with Jets as Adam Gase’s replacement anyway | Opinion Updated Jan 03, 2021; Facebook Share SOURCE: There is optimism inside Michigan that Jim Harbaughs new deal will get wrapped up soon with an extension thru 2026.— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) January 2, 2021 The Jets, of course, are going to fire coach Adam Gase after Sunday’s season finale at the Patriots. But Harbaugh wouldn’t have been a good fit as his re...

Mitchell Leff / Getty Images Sport / Getty This scenario seemed easy enough, even for the New York Jets. To secure the right to draft Clemsons Trevor Lawrence, a rare generational quarterback prospect, all the Jets had to do was keep losing. Hell, the Jets could do that. Theyve been losing for a long time! Theyre basically experts at losing. Total pros. The Jets got off to a roaring start, too. They lost their first 13 games, and it looked likely they might lose them all. But then they managed ...

Join the "newsnation" on twitter. find our twitter page. they call it black monday and its become an annual tradition feared by nfl coach and general managers of the leagues most underperforming teams. yesterday the ax fell for rex ryan of the new york jets, and mike smith, and jim harbough is reportedly heading to university of michigan. one teams loss is another teams game. john idzik and phil emery of the bears got pink slips. to sort through it is editor of the washington post. first questio...