Joe Douglas returning to Eagles after midseason Jets firing
One 12 months after he received the dangerous finish of a commerce with Eagles common supervisor Howie Roseman, Joe Douglas is re-joining his former boss.
Douglas, the previous Jets common supervisor, is returning to the Eagles in a senior scouting position, in response to a number of stories. Douglas was the Eagles vice chairman of participant personnel from 2016-19, till he was employed to steer the Jets.
The Eagles and Jets primarily flipped pass-rushers throughout the 2024 offseason — and nobody wound up blissful.
After the Eagles signed Bryce Huff away from the Jets throughout free company, Douglas rotated and traded a 2026 third-round choose to Roseman for the disgruntled Haason Reddick.
Huff solely had 2.5 sacks in 12 video games, misplaced his beginning job and was a wholesome scratch within the Tremendous Bowl.
However that feels like optimum manufacturing in comparison with what Reddick gave the Jets when he held out for the primary seven video games of the season — after deceptive Douglas about his calls for for a brand new contract — after which contributed one sack in 10 video games earlier than leaving for the Buccaneers as a free agent.
Douglas helped construct a Tremendous Bowl-winning roster in 2017 with hits all through free company and trades. That notch on his résumé helped him a couple of years later to land the Jets job, the place he was first partnered with head coach Adam Gase after which employed Robert Saleh to exchange Gase.
The Jets went 32-68 and failed to achieve the playoffs throughout Douglas’ six-year tenure. His gold star is the 2022 draft class, when he landed Sauce Gardner, Garrett Wilson, Jermaine Johnson and Breece Corridor with top-34 picks.
Douglas was fired final November — after Saleh already had been let go — close to the top of the ultimate 12 months of his contract. Just a few weeks later, he was shoulder-to-shoulder with Roseman at an Eagles residence sport — a precursor of what was to come back.
The Philadelphia Inquirer first reported Douglas’ new job.
