But in the short term, in the past three days rather than the next three years, maybe the outside people are warming to what the inside people are doing.
“I feel like we’re a better team now than we were going into this weekend,” Douglas said. “I feel like we’re a better team now than we were to start the entire offseason. A lot of that credit goes to Coach and his staff, Rex [Hogan, assistant GM], all our personnel staff working together. It’s just a real team effort to give us this chance to go into a season improved at some different spots, adding quality depth to the team, adding some guys that we feel can be explosive, dynamic playmakers for us.”
Douglas and Saleh know there are no quick fixes, just a lot of people doing their jobs to the best of their abilities all the time, while working together all the time.
Douglas, for instance, should surprise no one anymore that he knows how to maneuver up and down the draft board like a hardened commuter on the Cross-Bronx at rush hour….