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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- The fascination started last October. New York Jets general manager Joe Douglas received word from one of his scouts that there was a college junior out west he needed to watch. The 2021 NFL draft was six months away, but this was his typical starting point for in-depth tape study on potential prospects. So he punched up the video of the Oct. 16 BYU-Houston game, and it changed the course of the franchise. Douglas picked this game because it contained no fewer than four prospects, most notably Houston defensive end Payton Turner, who would become the first-round pick of ...

Here’s why Jets’ Robert Saleh is shielding Zach Wilson from prying eyes during rookie minicamp | How did he look on Day 1? Updated May 07, 2:50 PM; Posted May 07, 2:16 PM 27 Facebook Share Zach Wilson, wearing a red No. 2 jersey, dropped back and flicked a pass — a perfect spiral that landed in the hands of ... a coaching assistant. Later in Friday’s first Jets rookie minicamp practice — Wilson’s unofficial NFL debut — he did throw some passes to his running backs, tight ends, and wide receivers. But in all of these drills, there were no defenders. This is not to say new Jets...

Hype and Slander, Narratives and Labels: The Media-Driven In$anity of NFL Draft Season By NamathFreaksOutCallingAllegreFG on Apr 13, 2021, 3:17am EDT + "Alright alright, go ahead, keep it secret! Just remember this: when you control the mail, you control...information!" - Newman (Seinfeld, Episode: "The Lip Reader") "So we feel like we're really in no hard timeline in the immediate future to make a decision, but when we do make a decision we're going to do it after gathering as much - Jets GM Joe Douglas, March 3, 2021 Unless you've been living somewhere like the gulag arch...

Apr 8, 2021 The Jets’ separation from the quarterback they took third overall in 2018 didn’t happen overnight. Sam Darnold had to go through the second coaching firing of his short career first, then wait for his team to find a replacement for Adam Gase and complete a quarterback evaluation process that, thanks to circumstances created by COVID-19, took at least a month longer than it otherwise might have. For a lot of players, especially with the bullhorn social media has given everyone, being stuck in that sort of limbo might lead things coming undone in a pretty public way. But that n...

Offensive Assts.: Mack Brown and Billy Vandemerkt In most cases, familiarity is a good thing, especially for a team in transition. If nothing else, it shows Saleh was hands-on during the process, choosing his guys. That's noteworthy, considering the Jets were criticized in 2019 when the front office scared away head-coaching candidate Matt Rhule because it wanted to pick his staff for him. Rhule was a college coach at the time, and there were concerns about his ability to gather an NFL staff. The front office also had input into Gase's staff, creating an arranged marriage between him and de...