{"id":45083,"date":"2019-06-18T18:22:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T22:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=45083"},"modified":"2019-06-18T18:27:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T22:27:32","slug":"chris-johnsons-comments-on-douglas-starting-to-bear-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2019\/06\/18\/chris-johnsons-comments-on-douglas-starting-to-bear-fruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Johnson&#8217;s Comments on Douglas Starting to Bear Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few weeks ago, Jets acting owner Chris Johnson took a lot of heat from some fans and the media on both the local and national level.&nbsp; The owner sat and watched his GM spend $120 million, run an entire draft that included the third overall pick, and assemble a roster for an unproven head coach in his first season with the team.&nbsp; An unprecedented move with all factors taken in to consideration.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The path to build it was unconventional, but the Jets are putting together a very impressive front office.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Field Yates (@FieldYates) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FieldYates\/status\/1141102670121488384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Now, just over a month later, Johnson&#8217;s words at Douglas&#8217; introductory press conference are bearing fruit, and Jets fans should be excited.<\/p>\n<p>It was during that press conference when Johnson listed the many reasons why he hired Douglas, referencing at one point the many connections Douglas had around the league as a respected executive.&nbsp; This, Johnson said, would allow Douglas to assemble a talented cast with which to run the team&#8217;s front office.&nbsp; Today, we&#8217;re seeing the impact of the GM&#8217;s connections.<\/p>\n<p>First, it was announced by NFL insider Ian Rapoport that former Browns GM and Senior Bowl Director <a href=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2019\/06\/18\/report-phil-savage-to-join-jets-front-office\/\"><strong>Phil Savage would be joining Douglas<\/strong><\/a>.&nbsp; A good hire for a guy who has spent a ton of time watching the best of the best college players as they&#8217;ve prepared for NFL auditions.<\/p>\n<p>Then news broke of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2019\/06\/18\/jets-reportedly-add-former-ravens-assistant-pro-personnel-director\/\"><strong> another hire in former Ravens Pro Personnel Director Chad Alexander<\/strong><\/a>.&nbsp; Nobody outside of the Raven&#8217;s inner circle knows for sure what Alexander&#8217;s top decisions have been in Baltimore, but if you can add a football mind who worked under Ozzie Newsome for 20 seasons, with seven of them being his Pro Personnel Director, you make that move.&nbsp; Of course Douglas and Alexander will be extremely familiar with one another as Douglas also spend over a decade in Baltimore under Newsome.<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least, the Jets are bringing back former executive Rex Hogan, who is expected to be the team&#8217;s Assistant General Manager after bolting to spend some time with the Colts after his last stop with the Jets.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Schefter: Jets re-hire Executive Rex\u00a0Hogan <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Eifss5zi2h\">https:\/\/t.co\/Eifss5zi2h<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; JetNation (@JetNation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JetNation\/status\/1141102185964539904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>How this will play out on the may be an unknown, but Chris Johnson is clearly the man who will be writing the checks for a staff that looks like an all-star cast on paper, meaning these guys won&#8217;t be working for peanuts.&nbsp; Kudos to Johnson for making a bold move to get a respected GM and opening the check book for a front office that looks to be far better than anything the Jets have put together in quite some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few weeks ago, Jets acting owner Chris Johnson took a lot of heat from some fans and the media on both the local and national level.&nbsp; The owner sat and watched his GM spend $120 million, run an entire draft that included the third overall pick, and assemble a roster for an unproven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":45012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[3109,3099,3110,3108],"class_list":{"0":"post-45083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured-editorials","8":"tag-chad-alexander","9":"tag-joe-douglas","10":"tag-ozzie-newsome","11":"tag-phil-savage"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/gase-douglas-johnson.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-bJ9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45086,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45083\/revisions\/45086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}