The GM stressed that as much as they want the player to “come home” (Reddick played his scholastic football at Haddon Heights HS in South Jersey and starred at Temple), he doesn’t regret trading John Franklin-Myers to the Rams in late April and feels good about how the defensive line has come together throughout the offseason and training camp.
“We’ve prepared, we’ve gone through training camp without him,” he said. “But obviously, we still want him here and we’re excited to add him.
“In terms of replacing that production, we have a really deep room with a lot of good players. There’s been a lot of great reps and opportunities for Jermaine [Johnson] and Will [McDonald]. Takk McKinley has been unbelievable. We’ve got ‘Big Mike’ [Clemons] — he’s such a great teammate, he plays with great strain and effort and violence. We’ve added some good young talent in the room, so we feel great about our D-line depth as a whole.”
Douglas said of the Jets wanting Reddick to report before they began to hammer out a new contract, “That’s been the message, we’ve been clear on that.” He was asked if the club might adjust the player’s current contract first just to induce him to report to the Jets’ Atlantic Health Training Center. He reminded that the audience for such a change in approach is far wider than just the Jets, Reddick and his reps.
“I think we’ve been clear from the outset, ‘Hey, let’s get here and then let’s talk,’ ” he said. “I want to reiterate the respect I have, but I don’t have the benefit of just dealing with one person and one agent. A lot of the decisions you make reverberate through the locker room, have a ripple effect on the locker room. To me, that will always be the most important thing.”
As frustrating as the Reddick saga has been for fans who would love to see him in a Jets uniform applying pressure and hits and executing takedowns of every opposing QB from San Francisco’s Brock Purdy on…
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