I find it to be a regurgitation of the same old topic that has been discussed at nausea in every single forum and highlighted in the NY tabloids. There isn't an ounce of new, original material in it. How many times does a beat writer need to rewrite his personal opinion to remain employed? What I find incorrect, in fact ludicrous, is his pompous assessment and insinuation of what Woody should do (I.E get rid of the team because of incompetence) and his criticism of his admittance of his failures as too little too late. He is absolutely not qualified to pass judgment on the man and get it published for the world to see. Like it or not Woody has brought a lot more to the table than this NFL want to be clown. Keeping in mind had Woody not said that he would have been trashed for not been upfront and honest. Hence my assessment of garbage. Woody has many faults, and I'm not here to defend him, but it should take a lot more than a rag writer with no football credentials whatsoever to pontificate after the fact as to what a good NFL owner should and should not do. He should stop giving us his non professional opinion and report the news....not create them.
Well your post sure sounded like a defense of Johnson to me. While this was posted by the OP, the article was published on 12/30, the day after the press conference. How was it a regurgitation, discussing specific things Johnson covered at the presser??? He for example quoted Johnson's meandering "take" on the relevance of fan opinion, which in fact was rather bizarre. Ftr I acknowledge being a long time critic of Johnson's, but also who saw some positives in the presser. Johnson acknowledged that he has made mistakes, in effect including hiring Idzik, specifically the way he went about doing so. So, he is not repeating that process, and imo deserves credit for relying on people who are real football people. Yes you can question Casserly in particular for having something less than a uniformly successful and impressive career, but imo he represents an improvement over the last go around. Still, the bottom line question is whether Johnson will ever improve enough to become a successful and effective owner, and about that I still have huge doubts and concerns. For example I totally disagree with his take on Smith. While I did not expect him to piss all over Smith, he did not have to express confidence in him, either. For all my skepticism of Johnson, there does seem to be a glimmer of hope that the Jets can end up hiring a good GM, and that Johnson can let the new guy run the team free from his meddling. Barring that occurring, we can expect that nothing good will come of his ownership.
The more I ruminate on this, the more I think that you have to insure a good mix between GM and coach. I suspect a GM will look to hire someone he gets along with, although it does not always work out. But while this is important, you want the absolute best product you can put on the sideline. If Woody was doing this alone, I would say hire the GM, Woody. The idea of him sifting through combinations of football minds makes my shiver. But he has professional help.
