the only thing we take from it from a football standpoint is that woody is going cheap with most his operation, it raises a red flag to me how he plans to run football ops. For example the analytics department is probably like 2 guys from montclair state. If he wanted to build something world class he'd need like 20 harvard kids ($$$$$) and if he can't pay the ticket-takers I doubt thats gonna happen
Or there are 10 COBOL mainframe developers from 20 years ago in charge of analytics. Which is why it sucks. You offer them early retirement and get a few AI developers in who can run modern LLM models and actually produce good results. You don't need 20 Harvard kids any longer. Aside from selling the team, which Woody won't do, and btw would result in even more brutal cuts, this could be the next best thing to get rid of rotten culture. Or it could be nothing. But I just do not see any negative.
The salary cap is just a small part of the budget. This is one of the most profitable / valuable franchises in sports. Ain't no way Woody is strapped for cash, he's just greedy as fuck.
Every organization and company has a built in number of employees that contribute zero to the well being of the company. Weeding the over inflated staff by actually paying them to retire is by no means a sign of being cheap. It’s about freaking time we change the culture of that winningless country club, never making the tough choices.
Here are Woody's comments: https://nypost.com/2025/03/31/sports/jets-offer-170-employees-buyouts-in-search-of-culture-change/ "“That’s something that we thought was consistent with changing culture, giving everybody a chance to go in a different direction if they wanted, seek other opportunities, but also to move the whole organization forward in maybe a new and slightly different way,” Johnson said. “We’re in a major transition in terms of culture and the way we do things,” Johnson said. “We haven’t really made major changes in the organization itself in years, decades. So, we thought that this was a good time to give everybody an opportunity to reevaluate what they’re doing in their lives and the plan we’re going to. We want people who are all in, 100 percent to what the plan is with [Glenn and Mougey] on the football side. They have to be on the business side exactly the same, and they have to be together to serve our public, serve our players in a much more innovative way than we have.” I highlighted the things we have all been asking to improve. Woody is actually doing it. Last point seems to indicate some relation to player survey, which many people wanted addressed. He won't fire himself, but short of that, he seems to be at least trying to change something for the better. It surely cannot be much worse.
Isn’t this one of the reasons Spielman was brought in? Maybe they had a brainstorming session and he suggested to Woody that this was needed.
The culture of 1 Jets Drive is not going to change until the team is sold to a new owner. They can change over the entire org chart if they want. They can change the decorations, what stupid motto they plaster all over the walls, or they could build an entirely brand new facility. The culture isn't changing until there is a new owner in place. And, even then, we might end up somehow doing worse.
Nothing in this organization is "cleaned out" until Woody sells the team and the door hits him in the ass on his way out of the building.
Interesting. I see a bunch of comments but no actual definitive reporting on who was laid off. Until we know that, we'll never know whether it affects the team. My guess is, if this was actually "football" people there'd be a hell of a lot more reporting on it. No, until I hear further, I'm going to assume that Johnson just fucked over people like cooks, custodians...back office folks who probably keep the facilities going in some fashion. In other words, Mr. Money Bags just fucked a bunch of average joes that don't amount to a hill of beans when it comes to actual football on the field. Yeah, I guess you could pull some bullshit out your backside about how it "impacts" something but that would be what I would call pretty damn disingenuous. This organization is run by a moron and it an utter JOKE in the halls of other NFL teams. Shocker! CHAMPIONSHIP!
If the Jets got a new owner who has at least one eighth of a brain and was doing this, I'd say it was long overdue. Given it's Woody, he'll probably replace the workers with that Big Balls DOGE guy.
I oversimplified it, of course there would need to be people who know football at the helm, but I do think there is a place for AI and LLM in a football analytics department. And with AI you do not need a massive number of developers as compared to mainframe days. It's probably a perfect use case actually given how much historical data is available. My point was more that there are people Woody was referencing who have been there for 20 years as he hasn't made any changes in decades. I doubt all these people, especially these who would want to take a package and leave, have evolved much over time. There is a room for improvement, and yes using latest technologies in analytics is a part of it.
I think it would be a lot more telling to know who the 80 who did not get a buyout offer are and what they do. Same old, same old?
I must have missed the part where it said that a single person was fired, laid off or fucked over. Are you still riding that "insider knowledge" train?
What's your fucking problem? Call it what you want. A buyout IS a layoff. You can paint it however you want. Insider? Doesn't take a burger flipper to figure out that layoffs aren't a GOOD thing.
Yes, a buyout is nothing more than getting laid off with some money. Usually reserved for people who are lower on the rung. Many companies will try the "buy out" terminology to try and save a little face before they actually terminate, usually without cause. Companies don't use the term "non-contract" employees when you are talking the actual decision makers or "C" level people. Those folks have contracts and "golden parachutes." The anomaly here is they do mention some VP's which usually have specific verbiage in contracts when it comes to buy outs. Directors and above usually do not get handled like the rank and file.
