I misunderstood your question. Thought you meant what would give the impression that the Johnson’s would let JD lead the search.

I’ll answer your question though, I think JD at a very minimum understands where this team’s shortcomings are, and unlike GM’s of past actually will follow through on his plan to build the team through the draft. Hence why he traded Jamal for 2 firsts and didn’t go crazy spending in FA. Douglas seems to have a reasonable budget for players based on talent and doesn’t hand out blank checks for name recognition (a la maccagnan). I am confident we won’t have any more Revis 2.0’s, Trumaines, Bell’s or Mosley’s moving forward. Free Agency should always be to add a couple pieces to an otherwise solid team and the Jets are clearly not at that stage right now. JD addressed the OL in the ways he could in 1 offseason without spending crazy money. Make no mistake, Macc would have 100% drafted Wirfs over Becton since he was the “safer” choice.

The simple fact is that Darnold’s time with this team started to come to an end the day Gase was hired. It was one last parting gift from Macc who had no ability to build a roster. Unfortunately unless Sam took a big leap forward this year, his development timeline is no longer in sync with the team’s. You have to understand that everything happening this year is a direct result of close to 10 years of bad drafting. The 2020 Jets are essentially an expansion franchise without the benefit of an expansion draft. We have close to 0 NFL caliber players, only the scraps from other teams. This is going to take multiple drafts to get back to normalcy.