Breaking News: Jets fire GM Joe Douglas
PFT Live with Mike Florio
Mike Florio
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🗓️ 19 November 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Mike Florio breaks down the news that the Jets have fired GM Joe Douglas, six weeks to the day after they fired former HC Robert Saleh.
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| 0:00.0 | Special emergency edition of PFTPM. |
| 0:11.6 | For those of you wondering what's happened to PFTPM, instead of doing it on a regular basis, we're saving it for big moments, things that happened during the course of the day that require an immediate reaction. |
| 0:22.5 | The Jets have fired head coach Robert Sala. That requires an immediate reaction. Now, I'll peel |
| 0:28.0 | back the curtain a bit and tell you, I have no script, I have no plan, I have no notes. I might |
| 0:33.8 | have no thoughts. We're going to find out as I spew them over the course of the next |
| 0:37.8 | five, ten, fifteen or twenty minutes, however long until I have nothing left to say about it. |
| 0:42.6 | The first thing I have to say about it, though, is dysfunctional teams do dysfunctional things. |
| 0:49.4 | That's a line that I picked up from our good friend Big Cat years ago, and it continues to bubble up because, |
| 0:56.0 | and I made this point about the Jets on Monday with Chris on PFT Live, the weekly Sasquatch |
| 1:02.6 | sighting of Chris Sims on PFT Live. It starts at the top and it always trickles down. |
| 1:09.5 | That's where the dysfunction comes from. |
| 1:11.4 | The owners hide behind football operations, |
| 1:13.9 | but the owners always have a spoon in the stew, |
| 1:16.5 | and it's always the most influential spoon. |
| 1:19.4 | It goes the deepest, and it agitates the most thoroughly. |
| 1:24.6 | What they want, they get. |
| 1:27.1 | And when they want it, they get it. And look, I know |
| 1:32.8 | somebody had to take the fall because Woody Johnson's home away from home is England. He was |
| 1:38.9 | the ambassador. If you didn't know or if you'd forgotten under the first Trump administration, |
| 1:44.0 | if there's a second one, he wants to go back. |
| 1:46.7 | So for him to get embarrassed that way, his team losing in London, that adds to whatever it was that was already percolating inside him to make this change. |
| 2:01.0 | And I'm going to say he made that change. This isn't Joe Douglas, the GM. This isn't |
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