FLORHAM PARK, N.J. _ It has been a decades-long slog for Jets fans, a run of frustration and disappointment and heartbreak and anguish so deep that even the most faithful devotees have stretched the boundaries of their loyalty to this woebegone franchise.
Joe Douglas has only been here 4 1./2 months, but he feels your pain and understands your rage. And so desperately wants to do something _ anything _ to help.
"I can tell them I understand their frustration," the Jets' general manager said Tuesday evening when I asked what he can say to fans of a 1-6 team that has so brutally underachieved in Year 1 of the Douglas-Adam Gase era. "No one is more frustrated than me.
