James L. Dolan had future sporting the belt because the worst proprietor in New York sports activities, usually in two sports activities, no small feat. Then Dolan shared it with Woody Johnson for just a few years, proper after the Jets really made a few AFC championship video games on Ambassador Woody’s watch and earlier than Dolan employed Leon Rose and Rose employed Tom Thibodeau and the 2 of them introduced the Knicks again.
However now Woody Johnson has the belt all to himself. He isn’t just the worst and weakest proprietor on the town, with a soccer workforce as dangerous proper now because it’s ever been. He is likely one of the worst in New York sports activities historical past.
Woody proved it once more this week, when he didn’t know sufficient to close up about his quarterback when he was clumsily attempting to reward his coach. The coach, Aaron Glenn, was introduced in to vary the tradition across the Jets. He certain was. We’ve heard a lot about that tradition change it must be the set off for a consuming recreation: Glenn is altering the tradition, all people drink. However Glenn has a greater probability of changing into an astronaut than doing that.
You’ll be able to’t change the tradition across the Jets as a result of the tradition is an proprietor who solely helped the workforce as a result of he was in a position to purchase himself a job as Ambassador to the Court docket of St. James in England. Even that finally turned out badly for Jets followers. By final season, Woody was absolutely again in cost when the Jets went again to London to play the Vikings. They’d an opportunity to win that one, when Aaron Rodgers was nonetheless their quarterback. Cease me for those who’ve heard this one earlier than, however they blew it within the fourth quarter.
Woody should have thought that made him look dangerous in entrance of his former and fancy English mates. So he got here again to America and fired his coach, Robert Saleh, who had a 2-3 report on the time. This was the identical Saleh who had managed to win seven video games the 12 months earlier than after Rodgers acquired harm with Zach Wilson and Trevor Siemian as his quarterbacks.
Now the Jets of Ambassador Woody are about to play their twentieth recreation since Saleh’s firing. They’ve received three of these video games. Since Johnson has owned the workforce (2000), the Jets now have the twenty eighth worst report within the league, out of 32 groups. Over the past eight seasons, they’ve had the worst report within the league. He’s not the one second-generation proprietor we have now round right here, after all. Simply the worst. Put it one other approach: Woody is not any good and may show it.
As he was throwing his quarterback Justin Fields beneath the workforce bus the opposite day, Johnson talked about that Glenn was “turning around parts of it.”
You needed to ask him which components, however there was no level, you get the concept even the only soccer query stays a mind buster for him.
Right here’s a quantity very a lot price contemplating as a approach of understanding the place the Jets are proper now, whether or not or not they upset Joe Flacco — one other members of the Jets’ Alumni Affiliation for quarterbacks — and the Bengals on Sunday or not:
The quantity is 68-135.
Are you aware what that’s? That’s the workforce’s report since Woody fired Mike Tannenbaum a few years after these two AFC championship video games beneath Tannenbaum and Rex Ryan. The Jets went 6-10 and Woody acquired impatient once more, and Tannenbaum was gone. Since then, his workforce has a glowing .335 profitable share. Meaning the Jets have misplaced two of each three video games they’ve performed because the 2012 season, throughout that dreary and unwatchable loss at residence to the Panthers final Sunday.
You higher consider the Jets survived the primary 10 years of Woody’s possession, managing to hold on with what Invoice Parcells left them earlier than Tannenbaum and Rex made it work even with Mark Sanchez at quarterback. Survived and sometimes flourished. The Jets received extra video games than they misplaced in that first decade of Johnson’s possession, made six playoff appearances, had 4 10-plus-win seasons. For many of these years, Woody was sensible sufficient to maintain his mouth shut and keep out of the best way.
However then Woody Johnson couldn’t assist himself any longer. He fired Tannenbaum and saved Ryan as his coach, and changed Tannenbaum with John Idzik. Once you have a look at Idzik’s report as Jets normal supervisor, you assume now that future introduced him and Woody collectively. Actually, what may probably have gone mistaken with a GM who had no say about who his head coach was? You recognize what? Virtually all the things went mistaken. You recognize why? As a result of they had been Woody Johnson’s Jets, that’s why. Earlier than lengthy Idzik and Rex had been each gone.
Now, after 68-135 since that 2012 season, Woody has determined that that is all Justin Discipline’s fault. Fields: The quarterback who has been round for simply the final six of these 135 losses since Woody banged Tannenbaum. No marvel Aaron Rodgers acquired it into his head that a number of the Jets’ personnel choices had been being influenced by rankings one among Woody’s sons was seeing on the “Madden NFL” online game.
No marvel Rodgers joked about being “fired by a teenager.” No marvel we’re seeing Johnson household cash on the donor checklist for that East Wing teardown of the White Home. As a result of, let’s face it, who is aware of extra about teardowns than the homeowners of the New York Jets? Possibly trying again it’s no shocker that Invoice Belichick ran for the closest door after simply someday as HC of the NYJ, simply as Woody was simply coming via one other door after shopping for the workforce.
“It’s hard when you’ve got a quarterback with the rating [Fields has] got,” Johnson stated the opposite day.
He didn’t say he was referring to a video-game ranking, however who is aware of.
Then Johnson added this: “If we can just complete a pass, it would look good.”
That is an proprietor so insecure that he acquired himself sideways over Rodgers paying for meals vans to come back to the Jets apply facility, particularly after the Jets would lose one other recreation. He felt that Rodgers was exhibiting him up by spending his personal cash for the vans, cash that will have been tipping cash for the proprietor of the workforce. As all the time, the proprietor obsesses about so many issues — beginning with the media — which have hardly something to do with getting his workforce a victory or two.
There isn’t a Jets fan I do know who’s been completely happy watching Justin Fields attempt to full passes this season. However with all the things else happening, with how poorly the workforce has been coached and what number of penalties it’s dedicated, to place this all on his quarterback — one who apparently signed himself — Johnson seemed smaller and meaner than ever.
Woody Johnson began out his dialog with the media that day by saying “I don’t have any comments.”
No less than the man was proper about one thing.
SPORTS SOLD THEIR SOUL TO GAMBLING, GIANTS AIM TO LAND ANOTHER PUNCH & MORE GAMES FROM KNICKS …
Who did the Blue Jays assume they had been dealing with in Recreation 1 — the Yankees?
Too quickly?
Pay attention up:
If Rozier or any coach or participant thinks they will get away with aspect hustles and never get caught by all of the algorithms in place, then they should have rocks of their heads.
Or decimal factors.
So, there’s that.
However there’s additionally this, for the NBA and all the opposite sports activities leagues who’ve bought their souls to those authorized betting websites:
They’re not allowed to be shocked, within the immortal phrases of Capt. Renault in “Casablanca,” that there’s playing happening in right here.
And perhaps all of the celebrities pitching for all these sports activities playing websites on TV — and incessantly — ought to consider saving their hand-wringing on this one.
Simply throwing that on the market.
We’re going to seek out out quite a bit in regards to the Giants in Philadelphia this Sunday.
Like, a complete lot.
We’re going to seek out out if that upset victory over the Eagles a few weeks in the past was greater than only a fortunate punch that related.
And, staying with the boxing analogy for the second, we’re going to seek out out if the Giants can take a punch after what occurred to them final Sunday in Denver.
I typically assume there’s a greater probability of me enjoying a full NBA schedule than Mitchell Robinson.
By the best way?
Each time you begin to assume that issues are actually completely different within the Knicks’ entrance workplace, the Knicks begin enjoying video games with Robinson’s harm standing.
The extra issues change …
You do the remainder.
Browns at Jets subsequent Sunday must be a fairly festive soccer event, proper?
The Koch household now has a chunk of the Giants, and I’m questioning how lengthy earlier than they give the impression of being to get their hooks into the Yankees.
That is the a part of the sports activities 12 months once I really feel as if previous Smoltzie has moved in with me.
“The Proving Ground,” the nice Michael Connelly’s newest Mickey Haller novel, is a grasp class.
And staying with the lit’ry life, “The Picasso Heist” — by my pal James Patterson and Howard Roughan — is a blast.
Billy Crudup is as nice as ever in “The Morning Show.”
The Yankees may use a grinder like Ernie Clement.
Break up the Knicks.
Adam Silver says he’s “deeply disturbed” by these playing indictments.
Effectively yeah, identical, Commish.
