Joe Douglas embarks on huge offseason with flexibility to get talent Jets desperately need

Joe Douglas knows the existent authorities of the Jets is inadequate, and declared Monday that the extremity is to play meaningful games successful 2022 aft finishing 2021 astatine 4-13.

Even though the GM was pleased with the maturation from an highly young roster, helium is obscurity adjacent satisfied with the Jets’ results successful the past 2 years.

“Four wins, it’s not bully enough. Six wins successful 2 years. It’s not bully enough,” Douglas said. “We person to beryllium amended specifically successful the division. We person to triumph divisional games. We person a batch of enactment to bash moving forward. We request to get amended crossed the board.”

Douglas is right: The Jets person mislaid 12 consecutive divisional games.

Gang Green needs an infusion of endowment and it’s connected Douglas to adhd it.

“For me, I person to bash a amended job. This is going to beryllium my 3rd offseason,” Douglas said. “I gotta marque amended decisions moving guardant and assistance Coach Saleh enactment this squad successful amended positions to triumph games.”

It starts with adding endowment astir Zach Wilson, who had an underwhelming rookie play arsenic helium finished towards the bottommost successful each large statistical category.

Wilson was 30th oregon 31st successful yards, touchdowns, passer standing and QBR, and completed 55% of his passes for the worst people successful the league. He had the sixth astir interceptions successful the league with 11, but did chopped down connected turnovers, with nary successful his past 5 starts.

To beryllium fair, the passing accumulation towards the extremity of the twelvemonth was affected by the rash of injuries wrong the Jets receiving corps.

Douglas’s religion successful Wilson hasn’t wavered.

“I saw a batch of maturation from Zach this year. I deliberation it’s hard to beryllium a rookie playing backmost successful this league,” Douglas said. “I deliberation the strides that you saw Zach marque aft coming backmost from the injury… connected apical of that, not ever being successful presumption to beryllium playing with his starters, astatine each the accomplishment spots astatine wide receiver, choky end, moving back. But to improve, to support the squad successful contention precocious successful these games, a small undermanned. And connected apical of it taking attraction of the football. I deliberation those were each precise awesome things successful the backmost fractional of the season. So, I consciousness precise assured astir his improvement moving forward.”

Elijah Moore missed six games with a quad wounded and concussion. Corey Davis missed 8 games with a hep wounded and past a halfway musculus wounded that ended his season. Jamison Crowder missed 5 due to the fact that of his calf, groin and COVID-19. And Crowder near successful the archetypal fractional of the play finale with the aforesaid calf injury. Keelan Cole missed 3 due to the fact that of a genu wounded and COVID-19.

Braxton Berrios and Cole were the lone receivers who played the bulk of the season.

Wilson has lone played with his apical 3 receiving options (Davis, Moore and Crowder) for 2 games (vs. the Eagles and Falcons). And successful the Eagles game, Wilson produced a three-touchdown performance.

Outside of the Mekhi Becton injury, the violative enactment was comparatively steadfast until the past 2 weeks erstwhile Connor McGovern and George Fant missed 2 games. Tyler Kroft, the Jets’ No. 1 choky end, lone played 9 games.

On the different broadside of the ball, the Jets defence finished 32nd successful full yards, 29th successful tally defense, 30th successful walk defence and 32nd successful scoring defense.

A ample information of the antiaircraft woes was due to the fact that of the Jets rash of injuries and deficiency of talent. Marcus Maye, Carl Lawson and Lamarcus Joyner each suffered play ending injuries, which wounded the unit.

The antiaircraft enactment underperformed with lone 21 sacks connected the year; it besides wasn’t beardown capable against the run.

C.J. Mosley played good successful his return, but the remainder of the radical was beneath average. The Jets did find a diamond successful the unsmooth with Quincy Williams, who finished 2nd successful tackles (107) aft joining the Jets astatine the extremity of grooming campy aft being chopped by Jacksonville. The Jarrad Davis signing was a whiff. The experimentation with transitioning assemblage safeties successful Hamsah Nasirildeen and Jamien Sherwood didn’t cookware out, and Sherwood tore his Achilles.

After injuries to Joyner and Maye, the information spot saw Sharrod Neasman, Ashtyn Davis, Elijah Riley, Will Parks, Adrian Colbert and Sheldrick Redwine person playing time.

The cornerback radical had agleam spots with Michael Carter, Bryce Hall, Brandin Echols and Javelin Guidry.

Overall, the defence conscionable needs much talent.

The Jets person $60,904,328 successful headdress abstraction on with 9 draught picks successful the archetypal 5 rounds of the 2022 draft. And they person 2 picks successful the apical 40 of the draught with 2 sitting successful the apical 10 of the archetypal round.

So the Jets person the superior to drastically amended the roster.

And with the fig of draught picks, Douglas hinted astatine the anticipation of the Jets utilizing them to get players done trades.

“I deliberation with the presumption we enactment ourselves in, we person large flexibility,” Douglas said. “We person large flexibility to truly usage these assets successful antithetic ways…I deliberation we’re ever going to beryllium assertive if the close accidental presents itself and so, the bully happening is that I deliberation moving forward, we tin beryllium successful conscionable astir immoderate treatment erstwhile it comes to subordinate trades.”

With the magnitude of assets, Douglas knows the Jets should beryllium successful contention competing for the playoffs successful 2022.