Woody Johnson wanted the Jets to pursue Tyron Smith and Mike Williams. He nixed a trade for Jerry Jeudy. He pushed for the benching of S Tony Adams. He forced GM Joe Douglas to jettison his top assistants.
He suggested to coaches that Aaron Rodgers should have been benched after Week 4.
Johnson forced the hand of Douglas over and over, gradually stripping him of his power before finally firing him Tuesday.
Bill Belichick said that Woody Johnson is known to ready, fire, aim. That sounds rather messy, especially at the urinal. Which is what the Jets organization is.
Funny Woody Johnson story. An intern I trained a while back was this weirdo kind of kid that would just randomly go up to celebrities and ask for pics so he came back from lunch one day in Midtown Manhattan and said “hey look, I got a picture with Woody Johnson”. Woody didn’t look too pleased but he probably did it just so this guy would go away.
Maybe not “funny” in a haha way but kinda cool I guess
Honestly, the timing of everything was pretty ridiculous.
Let’s fire the head coach after week 5. Then, things continue to go badly. Let’s fire the GM after week 11! Because, you know, 6 weeks is sufficient to turn things around in the middle of the season.
Obviously the Owner and GM talk before firing the head coach. Why have him go forward with the firing week 5, but leave the GM in place? Why then fire him 6 weeks later? What could a GM do (other than possibly tank future assets with some sort of desperation trade) in those 6 weeks?
It just reeks of incompetence. How do some of these billionaires keep their cash? They must have advisors and guardrails to prevent the money that allowed them to buy an NFL team from getting dropped into the gutter…
Ask any honest billionaire how they did it, and they will tell you there’s a whole lot of luck involved.
Lacking the humility to understand that you may be rich but lack the chops run the talent side of an NFL franchise is what leads to teams like the Jets, Panthers, and Cowboys.
Say what you will about the Ford’s incompetency for many decades, their failure was hiring the wrong management and not from meddling where they didn’t belong.
Of you can read the oatwalled aeticle, it shows Woody has a couple advisors, and that Woodt did not in fact talk to anyone in the Org before saying salaam to Saleh