This is off Twitter http://espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/story/_/id/12093765/new-york-jets-woody-johnson-billionaire-plan
This is exactly the impression I got when I watched his presser. His body language screams of insecurity and 'un-intelligence'. We can however hope, that somehow, the right football minds get on board this club, and steer it in the right direction for us (and him)....
Yeah. If the Jets ever win a championship under Woody it will be despite him, not because of him. It will be because he hired a really good gm and coach and stepped away.
This goes against the instant reaction most fans had to his closing presser. Woody isn't great but at least he publically held himself accountable and defined what this team needs as a standard of success (wins.) Plus he hired Casserly and Wold which is a huge plus IMO (though this is debatable) and he is going through a broad GM and HC search process at the moment. Can we hold off one moment before criticizing him again? He is responsible for our team's regression since 2010 but he isn't destined to fail again. Let's just see who he hires first.
Agree to a point......the problem is that he has owned the team for 14 years and he should be past the learning curve phase.......... I wish I got a 14 year curve on a few things, but I guess that what comes with the benjamins.
I guess Ian had to take his shot at our owner, everybody else has. Garbage article rehashing the rex and Idzik firing. You think the jets were 2-14 for the past 10 years, The way they talk about them.
I don't even click Ian O'Connor articles let alone read them. Thank god someone mentioned it was him.
You have a good point, but remember that 31 of 32 owners fail every single year, and failing 14 years in a row is very typical. Plus, based on playoff appearances, the Jets are above average over the past 14 years... Above average for the first time. When Woody bought this team over Dolan I was very happy. Woody isn't great and needs to improve (which I believe he wants to), but no matter what you think about his failures, Woody >>>>> Dolan.
True. Woody is destiny's child. He has not had a lot of bad luck, starting with his conception. When he fails, it will have to be on his own merit. Patience.
The Jets have to break out of the "everything Jets do is bad" mindset that every newspaper reporter follows But more importantly, we as fans have to break out of that mentality We have to stop carinng about guys like Ian O'Connor & Mike Lupica, or giving them any form of credibility. The O'Connor article is bullshit second guessing, plain & simple. Yes, we get that the Jets and Woody haven't won a Super Bowl. But it can't be that everything they do is wrong. At least give this latest situation a chance to play itself out.
this team has zero future with this bozo owning the team. he has never had a real job and sits around doing drugs all day long. he never even bought a imaginary ivy league education with all his money, just some silly Arizona one. he cannot be taken serious and am very happy I was not stupid enough to buy one of his PSL's. those who did should contact a lawyer about a class action lawsuit. they got scammed by this clown when being told that it was an investment. yea right, an investment into giving some idiot a big chunk of there money for the right to give this idiot even more money. who's investment is this exactly??
I'm not a fan of Woody Johnson at all. That said, the press is killing him when so far no head coach or gm has been hired yet, and he brought in two "football people" to advise on the process rather than simply doing it himself. The press is just taking it's pound of flesh at this point. Once the Jets make their hires, then everyone can commence shoving toothpicks in their eyes and jumping off the Brooklyn bridge.
In a perfect world, we should hire hte GM first. But what if the Jets like a particular coaching candidate and because the GM is not in place, they lose him to a team that only needs to hire a HC? In this "everything the Jets do is bad mentality" , wouldn't everyone have a field day with that? What if, in the course of interviewing, a GM candiate indicates that he would favor a particular coaching candidate. And that the market dictates that that coach needs to be grabbed up or acted upon quickly, even before the GM gets signed? What do we do then?
I dont mind Woody, none of you were bitching about him in 2009 and 2010, not that I recall. The Jets have hit a rough patch but a lot of it had to do with the same General Manager that you all were supporting (Mike Tannenbaum). Idzik was clearly a misstep but that was the first big misstep since before Tannenbaums arrival. Try rooting for the Browns or Bills, you'd all be on watch by now........