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Joe Douglas already showing his Jets era will be different

It helps having Sam Darnold as your quarterback, and it helps having an opportunity to start and continue to live your football dream after realizing you missed the game too much, and since it is always about the money, it helps that there was a one-year, $8.4 million contract sitting on a table in Florham Park.

But it also helps having a football man with connections, a football man who builds relationships, a football closer, to land the big fish. A football closer who knows what it means to be a Super Bowl champion, who knows what it takes to build a Super Bowl champion.