 Let's bring in Joe Douglas because you know we've got our transmission problems work out Joe how you doing. I'm good guys how you guys doing. I'm just out there. I'm glad that didn't happen over the weekend. We were just saying I mean there's 32 teams all these drafts and nothing dropped and you come on our show and it dropped. I mean that might tell us what you think of us. So let's go with that before we get into your picks. I like the way the draft look. I love the families. I love being inside the living room and the think tank of where the GM's are making the decisions. I love the player. What did you what did you feel about the way it came down? You know I tell you just from the beginning we you know when we when we move to our home offices there is a couple days just it just there's a little uncomfortable period there. Once we got into the swing and I mentioned it on my press conference. I mean our IT staff did a phenomenal job of getting our personnel guys and our coaches on the same stage Microsoft team. It really helped us through our process. I mean I don't think we missed the beat then we got into the actual draft. I think we we we did a mock draft with the league leading up to the draft. We did three or four dry runs with our group on Microsoft teams. We were ready and so once we once we got into the flow of the drafts you're going and it's very similar to very similar to how the flow of the draft would be in a facility and you can have the one off conversations that you need to within Microsoft teams you know if you just want to you know go over one or two different scenarios real quick but the coolest part was the family aspect and it didn't hit me until after we drafted Mackay you know and then you know my daughter and son come in and you know to give you a big hug and it's like wow man this is really cool this is something that normally wouldn't happen at the facility that they can be a part of this and that that that was probably the best thing about the weekend I expected I want to just jump in with one thing in the mock draft that you guys did to practice to see if all the moving parts actually worked did you guys actually select real players did anybody tip their hands or you were you just saying Joe Shalabotnik from Auburn. So there was a script. Okay there's a script where the top the top half of the draft each team in the top half of the draft had to do a trade with the team in the bottom half of the draft. So we were linked with the Seattle Seahawks. So we traded out of 11 with the Seahawks down to I believe they were 20 27 or 28 and we we 27 and then we had to actually so then we had to wait to be back on the clock at 27 to turn off and you had each player that you were assigned a partner so there was really it was it was just scripted. Was there any surprises through the first 10 picks as you prepared for 11. You know I think I think where we were with with all the scenarios that we had in strategy meeting you know we we had prepared. Okay this is what we're going to do with all the tackles are going to go so we had basically prepared for worst case scenario. So I think once we got to once we got the Arizona's pick and they and they they picked the the highly safety linebacker was like okay well one of our guys can be here and it just so happen that it's all the perfect guy for us in the car. How late does that decision get made like it was there any world in which this could have gone wide receiver instead a few days earlier or were you pretty set on this for a little while. No you know we had so we had the meetings with the coaches and it was great. We had we had our draft meeting with the coaches the week prior to draft week and so our first strategy meetings were Sunday afternoon and we had three three strategy meetings we went over as many different scenarios as we could. You know we had we had player comparisons and you know we we talked any any difference of pain we hashed out we talked it through and you know the importance of that was OK. We're making these decisions under calm time so you know that we can just execute the game plan under duress you know if we're down to you know five minutes on the clock and you're waiting for a trade the trade call doesn't come in look we've had this discussion already but we're not going to change it now that there's a little bit more perceived pressure. All right so if I've seen any kind of criticism Joe of the draft by the Jets is that going in you said you want to protection for Sam and weapons and you know some people say they didn't take enough wide receivers you got Denzel Mims late in the second round and you also got a running back out of Florida Michael Perrin is that enough weapons do you think you have enough weapons for Sam this year. Yeah you know that was that was the episode going in you know and I think you know when we were at 48 you know we had an opportunity to where we had a we had a strong pool of players to choose from and you know there's there's a lot of sweating going on when we move back to 59 we felt that we felt that we had a we had an opportunity to get a great player and it felt perfectly to give names you know in other instances where we had a we had a pool players and there were a lot out there were a lot out and part of that pool but again I go back to the the the discussions that we had prior to the draft and in those discussions you know we had we had the player comparisons. So really we just executed the game plan and we went best player available. So are you disappointing you didn't get more wide receivers. No I wouldn't say that at all. I say we're excited about Denzel. I think you've got a real opportunity to come in and compete. I think well Michael I think I think what goes on set about him actually I don't even know what he said about him outside of our building but I think the exciting thing about him is what he brings not only as a running back but as a weapon in the past game. I think he's he has real ability as a route runner. He has really good ball skills and I think he's excellent in past protection. So I think those those are two exciting weapons that we're able to act our team through the draft. You know you weren't here but like the history of the Jets whether it's Braylon Edwards Plexiglass Burris Antonio Holmes they've been able to acquire wide receivers. You just saw one of the best wide receivers in the NFL get get dealt during this offseason. Are you comfortable with that you there are other ways besides the draft to acquire that difference maker at the wide receiver position. Right and we've talked about that before. There's there's many many different avenues to to acquire talent in the draft and create this year or two of the more highlighted avenues but obviously trades. I mean last year last year we made a trade with the Patriots acquired the Marys Thomas. So we're going to be aggressive. There's an opportunity for us to upgrade any position. You know we will attack that. Now you don't think you guys could have sent a better haul for Deandre Hopkins. It seems like that's the kind of dude who could completely change a team. And he basically got traded for a dollar and some envelopes. Was that a conversation that other teams were able to have or was this just a Bill O'Brien rush job. You know their discussions that you have with every team. I'm not sure how many teams that Houston discussed regarding Deandre. I can say that we didn't have a ton of discussions with the Texans but is that frustrating when something like that happens when you see that someone that talented who could it's not. I mean obviously Houston had a target that they were they were being aggressive with and you know they they they executed the deal and they were going to do what he feels is best for his team. All right now since the trades already happened. I can ask you this now. Did you guys ever engage the Redskins for Trent Williams. And if you had would you have used the 11 pick on a wide receiver. Yeah. So there were there were there's discussions with a lot of teams. You know there were there were feelers. Nothing nothing was ever serious. When it came to talk talks with the Washington Redskins that without getting into specific I can tell you that that nothing ever really got serious. Was it strange to make a deal with the Patriots. This is the second trade. Yeah you got some cubes then. No honestly I think both of those cases we felt strongly that those deals helped the team so it wasn't it wasn't a matter of hey it's the kids or hey it's his team. This is an opportunity that we feel can help our team. You also took Aston Davis. A lot of people like that pick but you do have a lot of safeties now. So how's that going to work. Is that a guard against Adams or May leaving at some point. No it's for action. It was it was a player that everyone or our organization was really excited about. I think you need to have a certain level of personality and flexibility within your defensive backfield. I think I think our back seven can be if we the more the more versatility that we can add in our back seven the better. I think Aston is a guy with great speed with great range with great ball skills excellent character and competitiveness and competitive makeup. I think you have a chance to be a real asset in a variety of roles for us. I noticed Joe that toward the end of the draft I believe 5 of the last 7 guys you took were captains on their college team. Why is that important to you. You know I think it's it's the way that our ranking fell. I think when we're talking about trying to build the right culture and having the right locker room. I think that required requires the right kind of leadership. And so I think I think these guys are the right combination of talent and character guys that to bring in the organization. Now you have your first draft. Is this enough now where you can look at this and say this is my team. This is this is the way I want it to look or does it still take a little bit more time and a little bit more pieces to feel like this is no longer Mike McCagnan's team. This is now Joe Douglas's team. You know I honestly I don't think about it as my team versus my team. This is our team and you know we're we're trying to we're trying to to to really build a foundation of the right type of people moving forward. And I think we're all in this together. I think that was the best part about our process that everyone had a voice. Everyone came together and we've got a lot of work to do still. I mean this was this was the time will tell how this draft stacks up. We were able to add 9 guys and then even when you look at the totality of the draft for us you know having you being able to use pick 11 for Nate Hirston and Quincy Wilson and then being able to use a seven round pick at a guy like Alex Lewis who's able to contribute and glad that we had him back. You know when we look at this that these draft picks as a whole we hope it could be a draft that can springboard us. All right. Truth's here in time. Joe Douglas jet GM is with us. So you were with Philadelphia when they use their second round pick for a quarterback when they have Carson Wentz did you kind of stop and go whoa. What's that. What's the jail in Hertz is there is a outstanding player had an excellent career at Alabama did a really nice job is last year in Oklahoma. You know without being part of that process I really don't want to comment on it. I'm being around you know no one knowing the type of competitor that Jalen is he'll fit great in a room that has the type of competitor that Carson is I mean there's going to be there's going to be a lot of passion and fire. Now obviously you took a little bit of a project quarterback later in the draft. Are you OK. Joe with the backups for Sam going in or you're going to look for a veteran. I think we have a good mix of players right now. Excuse me. We have David failed. Recycling him. You've been he's been in the system for a long time. You know really smart and a great great person to have in the room brought in Mike White who is who's on our practice spot at the end of last year and he's got a lot of ability to develop and then another guy talk about how excited people were for Ashton. There is there is a kind of excitement for for Captain Morgan as I call him. He's a he's a real he brings a lot of energy brings a lot of juice. You know he when he came into our combat interview I mean he lit up the room his recall his football smarts and then you watch the tape. You see that you see size you see the arm talent. You see a lot of tools to develop so excited to have him in the room. Joe we're start. I'm sorry Joe. We're starting to see right out in the room. We're starting to see a maybe the possibility within a couple of weeks of things kind of loosening up with the pandemic. Do you have any date any discussion with the NFL on when you may be able to allow players to come to your facility and be able to start workouts and start thinking about this upcoming season. You know obviously we're hopeful that we can get in some point soon. I think on my end right now there's still uncertainty. Nothing nothing set in strong but we're hoping that we can we can get back in the building soon. Now I know that great organizations plan everything down to the nth degree. Did you guys make sure that Adams Children War Jamal Adams Jersey and Levy on Bell Jersey just to send out good vibes. You know I think that's a good question for Coach Gates. We didn't talk about what our what our children were going to be wearing throughout the draft. But I guess there was Adam told me there was a shot. I guess it was trending on a sun you know on one shot. He was working on a Rubik's Cube and then the next shot of a saw. So you got it was that legitimate. Joe did he really saw I couldn't solve a Rubik's Cube for four years if I had it. He did it in about a half hour. I still have never signed a Rubik's Cube. You know what I had to do as a kid. I cheated. I took the stickers off and put them of course. That's what real people do. But then it looks it looks terrible because you never you couldn't even put the stickers on well. I couldn't even put the stickers on right. No I mean no not smart Adam and his and his kids are no no I'm not surprised at all. Now you picked up the fifth year option on Jamal which I guess was expected. How's that going. Are you going to talk with him about an extension shortly. Yeah so picking up the option I mean we we we of course we were going to do that and excited to do it. Talked at length about you know how excited we are to have Jamal and how good of a player he is. But you know we we will at some point get to get together with him and his representatives once we tie up everything on our ads in the draft. And you're cool that he's not I know it's voluntary and that's the key word. You're cool that he's not taking part in the voluntary computer workouts I guess virtual workouts. Yeah so we're doing virtual classes and it was it was cool to start today as able to sit in on a few positions and just watch the assistant coaches do do their thing which is really really good to see. But yeah these are voluntary. These are voluntary. Cool. We thank you for coming on. Did you I mean one last thing. Do you have any fun. I mean there's so much riding on it. Is it fun at all. It is. It's unbelievable fun and that really you try to you try to keep trying to keep the guys loose. I mean this is I know this is big business and you got to have fun. You got to have fun doing this and I think that was that was the best part because we we have such a good group of scouts and I think we're we were really able to have fun and build a really really strong chemistry. You know the meetings that we had leading up to the draft and you know guys are standing on the table for their for the guys that they really want the team and you know we're having fun relaxing. We're you know we're cracking jokes on each other. You know we're trying to lose this fast and we're trying to stay loose and have fun while at the same time making sure our our eyes are dotted and these are crossed. Good stuff stay safe you and your family and hopefully we'll talk soon. You too guys thanks for the time. All right. Let's go Douglas. I show you know he.