If you transported yourself back a month ago and tried to explain the start to the Jets season to someone, you might start with this sentence: Arthur Maulet has as many touchdowns as Le’Veon Bell through three games. Or you could say that Sam Darnold’s right arm will be talked about less than his spleen.

Yes, it has been an unusual start to the 2019 campaign for Gang Green. Who knows what October holds?

But one thing that has not been a surprise, but has been driven home through the first three games, is the lack of talent on this roster. Years of poor drafting have caught up to this team in a major way. They entered the year with no wiggle room for injuries. Since the preseason, they have lost their two inside linebackers, their quarterback, their No. 2 wide receiver, their top rookie and their best player on the edge.

You can blame the coach if you want, but Vince Lombardi could not win with the Jets roster as currently constructed.

That brings us to Joe Douglas.

The new Jets general manager will get to look across the sideline this week and see the team he helped construct. The Eagles are two-touchdown favorites Sunday over his Jets and it might get uglier than that at Lincoln Financial Field if Darnold and C.J. Mosley miss their third straight games.

When Douglas was hired in June, coach Adam Gase told him he felt like they were standing at the bottom of Mount Everest about to scale it together. These last four weeks have been like a blizzard at base camp.

Watching the Jets play is a reminder of just how big of a rebuilding job Douglas faces. There are holes all over this roster. What is the Jets’ strength right now? Their offensive line is putrid. The skill position group is average, at best. The secondary is Jamal Adams and a bunch of question marks. They don’t have a pass rusher. The defensive line, led by Leonard Williams, has played well against the run but does nothing to affect the quarterback.

Right now, Douglas should be looking at the roster and saying Darnold, Adams and rookie Quinnen Williams will be on the team in 2020. Everyone else? The next 13 games are a job interview.

Nearly every week the Jets are out-manned. Look at their opponents’ starting lineups and ask how many Jets could crack it. The number is low nearly every week.

A personnel man once told me that a team’s last six drafts should be the lifeblood of the team. You use free agency to augment the roster and fill holes, but the draft is where the foundation is built.

Here is how many players are on the Jets’ active roster from the past six drafts:

2014: 0-of-12 drafted (one on injured reserve)

2015: 1-of-6

2016: 3-of-7

2017: 2-of-9

2018: 3-of-6 (two suspended)

2019: 5-of-6

That is a grand total of 14 players left from 46 players drafted by former GMs Mike Maccagnan and John Idzik in those years. Of those 32 players no longer on the Jets, 21 of them are currently not on a team. Think about all the time and resources spent on scouting and preparing for the draft and they whiffed on 70 percent of their picks.

Is it any wonder the Jets roster is awful?

Douglas has a long to-do list, but it starts with the offensive line. The first three games have underscored just how poor the line is. Douglas vowed to fix the line when he was hired.

“Football is a game of wills,” Douglas said in June. “We’re going to try to build a team that can impose their will on other teams and to do that you have to be strong up-front.”

The line has been a position that has been ignored for too long by previous regimes. The Jets have not drafted an offensive lineman in the first two rounds since Vlad Duccasse in 2010. They have not taken one in the first round since drafting D’Brickashaw Ferguson and Nick Mangold in 2006.

The Jets could have four new starters on the line in 2020.

Douglas knew what he was doing when he pushed for a six-year contract from the Jets. This team has more holes than a donut shop. We knew that a month ago and the first three games have only driven the point home.