Joe Douglas Puts His Foot Down After Hassan Reddick Trade Demand
Evan Roberts & Shaun Morash react to the news of Hassan Reddick requesting a trade and the sub-sequential statement from Jets GM Joe Douglas
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00:00I have a statement from the New York Jets.
00:01Oh boy.
00:02This is breaking news.
00:04You want to break the glass here, Rosey?
00:05This is like no joke, a real statement?
00:06Yeah.
00:07Oh.
00:08This is a statement from Joe Douglas.
00:09Okay.
00:10I have not read it yet, so this is all going to be new to me as I read it.
00:12Are you ready?
00:14Okay.
00:15We have informed Tasson that we will not trade him.
00:18Yeah!
00:19Finish reading this.
00:20That's what big Joe Douglas says.
00:23We ain't taking crap.
00:24All right, let me continue.
00:28I love how this statement just starts by jumping right into it.
00:31Like, there's no candy, it's just, we're getting into it.
00:35Usually a sign this will end well.
00:36We have informed, all right, hater.
00:38We have informed Tasson that we will not trade him, that he is expected to be here with his
00:43teammates and that he will continue to be fined per the CBA if he does not report.
00:49That's what he means.
00:50I tell you, Joe Douglas means business.
00:52That is a very, get your ass in here.
00:57We're not doing anything different kind of statement from Joe Douglas.
01:01Here's the problem with the statement.
01:03It's that we have it.
01:05Tell Hassan Reddick this.
01:06The first thing he said is we have informed Tasson that we will not trade him, so you
01:10don't think they told him?
01:11No, I think they did, but I am usually in the forefront of I want every team to be transparent
01:16with us.
01:17However, it's probably not a good recipe to basically publicly shame Hassan Reddick like
01:22this, who has not played it down for you ever and basically doesn't owe you anything as
01:26far as a franchise goes.
01:27I think they just publicly pissed him off and probably would force him to dig his heels
01:31in even more.
01:32Hold on a second.
01:33He started by demanding a trade.
01:34Sure.
01:35But if you really want to bridge the gap to work something out and not have him here,
01:39don't publicly tell the world basically na-na-na-poo-poo, nothing you could do about it, you better
01:43get here.
01:44We informed you and we've been direct in consent.
01:45No, it's showing we're not giving in on a contract.
01:48Look, here's the reality that I need to know, that we all need to know, because clearly
01:52the Jets have put out a story via Conor Hughes and other reporters that they told Hassan
01:58Reddick and Joe Douglas even just said it, we're not giving you a new contract.
02:01Right.
02:02And everything seemed to be copacetic for a while.
02:04Like Hassan understood that and he was okay with that.
02:07And then something changed, whether it's his agent getting into his ear, whether it's Hassan
02:11changing his mind, whether it's having a conversation with other players.
02:15Is that story true?
02:17That the Jets have been peddling now that, hey, we were on the same page.
02:20We were pretty consistent about the way things were going to go and you changed.
02:25We didn't change.