PALM BEACH — Final month, Woody Johnson and the Jets acquired an F on the newest NFL Gamers Affiliation document card.
On Monday, Johnson had robust reactions concerning the grade the workforce acquired.
“My first read is I think it was totally bogus,” Johnson mentioned. “I thought this whole setup the way it was done, that’s enough said on that.”
However then, Johnson was requested what precisely was bogus concerning the NFLPA report card.
“The whole thing,” Johnson mentioned. “How they collected the information and who they collected it from was supposed to be according to the agreement we have with the league is supposed to be a process. We have representatives and they have representatives, so we know it’s an honest survey and that was violated in my opinion.
“I’m just going to leave it at that, but I think there’s a lot of owners that looked at that survey and said it is not fair, it’s not balanced. It is not every player, it is not even representative players.”
Throughout this 12 months’s survey, 1.695 gamers participated and graded groups in a number of classes, together with remedy of households, meals and eating, nutritionist/dietician, locker room, coaching room, teaching, and possession. The Jets ranked twenty ninth out of 32 within the 11 classes, which was decrease than in 2024 after they ranked twenty first total.
Johnson, 77, was additionally given an F for possession and completed useless final among the many 32 NFL homeowners. A 12 months in the past, he acquired a B-minus.
“We want to get better every day in every category,” Johnson mentioned. “I want to be number one in everything, all of our people do. Including on the field, but also off the field and all of our philanthropies, so we wanna be number one.”
Regardless of having lower than ultimate marks on the NFLPA report card, Johnson doesn’t consider that can have an effect on the Jets’ skill to draw free brokers.
“If there’s areas we can improve and I think there’s always areas we can improve, not because of this bogus report, we’re going to do it. The relationship with the players is very important. We want to make sure the players are involved now and whatever they want to comment on.
“If [the players] are getting bored with the food or bored with the way the place looks, let me know. I can’t do anything if they don’t tell me, so I think we’re going to have a lot better communication with the players in terms of what they’re looking at every day.”
The Jets are coming off one other disappointing season after ending 5-12, by which they’d Tremendous Bowl aspirations. That led to the firings of each coach Robert Saleh and common supervisor Joe Douglas. Aaron Rodgers was additionally launched earlier this month.
“Both Aaron [Glenn] and the general manager [Darren Mougey] made the decision it was time to move on,” Johnson mentioned. “The experiment was a good experiment, to bring him in, but it just didn’t work out, as you can see. I have a lot of respect for Aaron Rodgers.
“He is a great player, a Hall of Fame player. I’m sorry it didn’t work out, but we made a choice. I think we made the right choice. They made the right choice.”
Johnson additionally confirmed the Sports activities Enterprise Journal report that 170 of the N.Y. Jets’ 250 workers needed to determine by March 31 whether or not to simply accept voluntary buyout gives issued earlier this month. He mentioned there can be no layoffs inside the group. Nevertheless, the Jets are providing buyouts in hopes of enhancing the group’s tradition.
“We are in a major transition in terms of culture and the way we do things,” Johnson mentioned. “We thought this is a good time to give everybody a chance to reevaluate what they’re doing in their lives.
“We want people that are all-in, 100 percent to what the plan is, what we’re trying to do on the football side. On the business side, they have to be exactly the same.”
