If Woody Johnson longed for a 38-year-old Brett Favre, just as he did when Chad Pennington was dropped before the 2008 season, you better think he’d want to make a fuss with Deshaun Watson now that Johnson is back.
Watson is a quarterback in the top five who is only 25 years old and is an instant box office whenever the day comes mercifully that MetLife Stadium can be reloaded with Jets fan patients. And also the Jets sufferers.
Jets GM Joe Douglas has the capital project and the appeal of New York Bleeping City to seduce Watson now that he is known to want to leave Houston.
It’s a two-pronged sales attack for Douglas and the Jets:
Make jeans an offer they can’t refuse.
Sell Watson why the Jets are the most desirable landing place during the early years of his career.
The following explains:
The Jets haven’t reached the playoffs since the 2010 season. The franchise has been a veritable graveyard for the franchise’s quarterbacks. Douglas doesn’t need to refer to that.
But it may remind Watson that there is no better place to win than New York City, even if the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center is located in Florham Park. NJ I, by the way, is a beautiful facility.
Watson does not shy away from expectations that he would be the savior of the Jets.
Watson’s championship days at Clemson tell us in uncertain terms that he loves bright lights and the big stage, just like Michael Jordan once did. The Jets were one of the teams that didn’t listen to Clemson coach Dabo Swinney when he compared Watson to MJ, drafting Jamal Adams because then-GM Mike Maccagnan looks like Christian Hackenberg would be Jordan. But Douglas can get a clue from Mark McGwire – he’s not here to talk about the past.
He will talk about Robert Saleh. Watson would love Saleh; all he has to do is ask Richard Sherman, if he hasn’t already. If anyone is a completely gassy, unbridled man, it’s Deshaun Watson.
And Saleh has an important branch of Kyle Shanahan’s tree in offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur. Watson would flourish in his offense.
Douglas has $ 63,475,814 at his limit, according to overthecap.com, and will be the free agent market player for a No. 1 receiver (Allen Robinson, Chris Godwin) teamed up with Denzel Mims and Jamison Crowder. You will find it Playmakers and Protectors.
Watson’s open side would be protected by Man Mountain Mekhi Becton, who could remind Watson of Laremy Tunsil, his left attack on Houston.
Douglas can promote the culture he has begun to build: there is no IK Enemkpali, so there is no reason for Watson to fear that someone will break his jaw in the locker room.
If Joe Namath could ever appear in pantyhose ads, the sky would be the limit for Watson in the field of recommendations.
Douglas should call Namath and ask him to lead the team and the city to Watson.
And now for the other side of the jeans in two steps:
Douglas must be willing to fork in at least three draft picks in the first round: the second overall selection and the 23rd selection in 2021 and the Jets selection in 2022, which will surely be a more valued selection than the one they made received from the Seahawks in the Adams agreement. Douglas can sweeten the pot with autographed copies of Namath’s latest book: “All the Way: My Life in Four Quarters”.
New Texas GM Nick Caserio could incorporate Zach Wilson, Justin Fields or Trey Lance with this second overall selection.
Douglas can reclaim some projection capital (no more and no less than a second-round pick) by changing Sam Darnold to one of the many desperate quarterback teams: bears, lions, panthers, polts, football team of Washington, the steelmen, the saints, perhaps the Rams. , maybe even Jon Gruden’s Raiders, but not the Patriots, thank you very much.
“He’s an amazing talent,” Saleh said of Darnold on the podcast “Huddle and Flow.”
A win-win statement from Saleh. Obviously, Darnold would benefit from the change of coach, but he could also benefit from a change of scenery. Saleh talks to him in case the Jets plan to negotiate it is a smart deal. It is a smart business to express your belief in him and increase your confidence at the same time.
Any trade would leave Douglas with a second and two third rounds in 2021, a first round 2022 and a second and a third, in addition to everything he could look for for Darnold.
Douglas might have to fend off the Dolphins if he decides to improve above Tua Tagovailoa, and Watson would like there to be no state income taxes in Florida.
Back in 1997, the Jets changed the first, second, third and fourth round picks to the Patriots for what turned out to be three years of Bill Parcells on the sidelines.
Watson, Sept. 26, would only give the Jets his best player since Curtis Martin, his best quarterback since Broadway Joe.
If the push gets to push and he is forced to deliver that fourth first round (probably in his 20s), Douglas should swallow hard and do so, insisting on a second or third round as part of the ‘agreement. Deshaun Watson makes everyone around him better and changes the perception of the organization. And it would be an invaluable recruiting tool for Saleh, because players across the league will want to play with him.
For the besieged Jets, it would be the dawn of a new day. Or Deshaun of a new day. He is elementary, dear Douglas.