Don’t ever sell the team, Woody!

[dave mcbride]

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6005172/2024/12/19/woody-johnson-jets-madden-sons/
 

‘Woody Johnson decided to do his own research.

 

The New York Jets’ owner was at his house in Palm Beach, Fla., last February, discussing potential offseason acquisitions with team decision-makers as they watched game tape. Wide receiver Jerry Jeudy, a former Denver Broncos first-round pick, flashed on the screen. Jets general manager Joe Douglas expressed interest, according to someone familiar with the meeting. Johnson took out his phone and started typing.

 

A few weeks later, Douglas and his Broncos counterpart, George Paton, were deep in negotiations for a trade that would have sent Jeudy to the Jets and given future Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers another potential playmaker. The Broncos felt a deal was near. Then, abruptly, it all fell apart. In Denver’s executive offices, they couldn’t believe the reason why.

 

Douglas told the Broncos that Johnson didn’t want to make the trade because the owner felt Jeudy’s player rating in “Madden NFL,” the popular video game, wasn’t high enough, according to multiple league sources. The Broncos ultimately traded the receiver to the Cleveland Browns. Last Sunday, Jeudy crossed the 1,000-yard receiving mark for the first time in his career.’

 

Edited December 19 by dave mcbride

[Gregg]

Something else to keep an eye on this offseason. 

 

https://thejetpress.com/garrett-wilson-trade-rumors-ny-jets-request-offseason-report-01jfddxnv7e2

[dave mcbride]

Btw, this whole story is incredible. Gobsmacking.

[boco357]

Poor Mike White.

 

In 2022, quarterback Mike White played through broken ribs in a late-season game against the Seahawks with postseason hopes on the line. White played poorly; the Jets lost and were eliminated from playoff contention. After the game, with the quarterback in the showers after throwing his helmet to the locker room floor, multiple Jets players said they heard Woody Johnson say, “You should throw your helmet, you f—ing suck.” The statement got back to White. The team spokesperson said Johnson apologized to the quarterback, who declined to comment for this story.

[BuffaloBillyG]

13 minutes ago, dave mcbride said:

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6005172/2024/12/19/woody-johnson-jets-madden-sons/
 

Woody Johnson decided to do his own research.

 

‘The New York Jets’ owner was at his house in Palm Beach, Fla., last February, discussing potential offseason acquisitions with team decision-makers as they watched game tape. Wide receiver Jerry Jeudy, a former Denver Broncos first-round pick, flashed on the screen. Jets general manager Joe Douglas expressed interest, according to someone familiar with the meeting. Johnson took out his phone and started typing.

 

A few weeks later, Douglas and his Broncos counterpart, George Paton, were deep in negotiations for a trade that would have sent Jeudy to the Jets and given future Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers another potential playmaker. The Broncos felt a deal was near. Then, abruptly, it all fell apart. In Denver’s executive offices, they couldn’t believe the reason why.

 

Douglas told the Broncos that Johnson didn’t want to make the trade because the owner felt Jeudy’s player rating in “Madden NFL,” the popular video game, wasn’t high enough, according to multiple league sources. The Broncos ultimately traded the receiver to the Cleveland Browns. Last Sunday, Jeudy crossed the 1,000-yard receiving mark for the first time in his career.’

 

In a stunning turn of events, Madden offices flooded from texts, emails and phone calls from agents and players around the NFL begging to have their  rating lowered so they don't end up on the goddamn Jets. Probably.

Edited December 19 by BuffaloBillyG

[mushypeaches]

And to think, we complain about the Pegulas

[Your Brown Eye]

19 minutes ago, Gregg said:

Something else to keep an eye on this offseason. 

 

https://thejetpress.com/garrett-wilson-trade-rumors-ny-jets-request-offseason-report-01jfddxnv7e2

 

yes please

[Gregg]

1 minute ago, mushypeaches said:

And to think, we complain about the Pegulas

 

Terry deserves the complaints when it comes to the Sabres.

[Don Otreply]

Truly rich people live and think in a different world, that’s why we don’t…, you finish the sentence 

[Kelly to Allen]

😂

 

The NY jets not only passed on the greatest QB that's ever lived in 17, they passed on another top ten all time QB the very next year in 18

They then tripled down and instead of being patient and surrounding Darnold with competent coaching and talent, they traded away a good legitimate starting QB in Darnold. 

 

It's astonishing levels of incompetence 

 

They had 3 chances at an 83/04 QB class, and screwed up each time 

 

Passed on mahomes 

Passed on Allen 

Traded away Darnold 

 

The 18 class is living up to all the hype as it was compared to the 04/83 class 

 

Allen and Lamar both first ballot Hof QBs 

Baker and Darnold are legitimate starters and pro bowl level QBs

 

 

Pretty embarrassing for the jets to repeat history of 1983 again and again 😂 

Edited December 19 by Kelly to Allen

[Slippery Rubber Mats]

There must be some exaggeration here, this can't be true LOL

[BearNorth]

Just watched the yesterday clip of Rodgers, looks like he's checked out mentally.

[Kelly to Allen]

Jets passed on Dan Marino lol. Never gets old 

 

What's so embarrassing is that the buffalo gm and scouts were going to take Kelly or Marino at 14 regardless. Shows you how dumb the jets are 

[DrDawkinstein]

37 minutes ago, mushypeaches said:

And to think, we complain about the Pegulas

 

I dont think Ive ever seen a complaint about the Pegulas when it comes to the Bills.

[Woodman199]

We may laugh but I feel it's no different than half the posters on here...

[SoTier]

47 minutes ago, dave mcbride said:

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6005172/2024/12/19/woody-johnson-jets-madden-sons/
 

‘Woody Johnson decided to do his own research.

 

The New York Jets’ owner was at his house in Palm Beach, Fla., last February, discussing potential offseason acquisitions with team decision-makers as they watched game tape. Wide receiver Jerry Jeudy, a former Denver Broncos first-round pick, flashed on the screen. Jets general manager Joe Douglas expressed interest, according to someone familiar with the meeting. Johnson took out his phone and started typing.

 

A few weeks later, Douglas and his Broncos counterpart, George Paton, were deep in negotiations for a trade that would have sent Jeudy to the Jets and given future Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers another potential playmaker. The Broncos felt a deal was near. Then, abruptly, it all fell apart. In Denver’s executive offices, they couldn’t believe the reason why.

 

Douglas told the Broncos that Johnson didn’t want to make the trade because the owner felt Jeudy’s player rating in “Madden NFL,” the popular video game, wasn’t high enough, according to multiple league sources. The Broncos ultimately traded the receiver to the Cleveland Browns. Last Sunday, Jeudy crossed the 1,000-yard receiving mark for the first time in his career.’

 

 

There wasn't really a proper reaction emoji to this ... not much need for a "too bizarre for the real world" emoji. 

 

6 minutes ago, Kelly to Allen said:

😂

 

The NY jets not only passed on the greatest QB that's ever lived in 17, they passed on another top ten all time QB the very next year in 18

They then tripled down and instead of being patient and surrounding Darnold with competent coaching and talent, they traded away a good legitimate starting QB in Darnold. 

 

It's astonishing levels of incompetence 

 

They had 3 chances at an 83/04 QB class, and screwed up each time 

 

Passed on mahomes 

Passed on Allen 

Traded away Darnold 

 

The 18 class is living up to all the hype as it was compared to the 04/83 class 

 

Allen and Lamar both first ballot Hof QBs 

Baker and Darnold are legitimate starters and pro bowl level QBs

 

 

Pretty embarrassing for the jets

 

Even the Bills in their deepest, darkest years of the Drought, never f'd up picking a great QB when they had a real opportunity to grab one.  

- In the 2004 draft, the Bills wanted Roethlisberger but the Stillers took him 2 spots before the Bills' turn.  The Bills traded back into the first round to take Losman who was the only other QB considered a first round prospect in that draft.  IMO, with a different FO and better coaching than Dick Jauron, Losman might have become a decent starter. 

- In 2017, the Bills swapped their first round pick (#10) to the Chiefs for their 2017 first rounder (#21 IIRC) plus KC's first rounder.  The Chiefs drafted Mahomes, but the Bills used their draft capital to take Allen.

[QCity]

That article is bonkers. They have to be sourcing Joe ("one team executive")Douglas, right? Did he get drunk or maybe he just never wants to work in the NFL again?

[thenorthremembers]

Here's the deal with this article.   Woody may indeed be a terrible owner, but this hit piece is the exact reason Joe Douglas and Robert Saleh should never be in a position of leadership in the NFL again.    The article is clearly an attempt by their people to pass the buck onto ownership for their own failures.    For example:

 

“They keep on doing the same thing over and over: they change the football people. The football people are not the issue,” one former executive said. “It’s, ‘Hey, I have brain cancer.’ And, ‘Well, just cut off your foot.'”- Calling BS on this one.  Joe Douglas drafted Zach Wilson not Woody Johnson. Joe Douglas traded for an about to be 40-year-old Quarterback, not Woody Johnson.   The Jets had 8 different top 15 picks in the draft from 2019-2024.    Somehow instead of turning any of those picks into a serviceable Quarterback Douglas collected edge rushers, cornerbacks, and wide receivers with no one to pass them the ball.   It's clearly a football people thing.  

 

On the Jerry Jeudy thing.  Yes, its stupid but Jerry Jeudy is the hill Douglas wants to die on?   Was Jerry Jeudy going to somehow make the Jets a Super Bowl Contender?  

 

It's fairly clear the Jets hired two guys in Douglas and Saleh who lack an appetite for personal responsibility.    Rather than take a look in the mirror for how the organization was run under their leadership they decided to cover their butts by blaming the guy who paid them millions of dollars to be failures.    

Edited December 19 by thenorthremembers

[H2o]

A lot of these owners are just ridiculous. Woody Johnson, Jerry Jones, Dave Tepper, Mike Brown, Jim Irsay, from the way they carry themselves, to the things that come out of their mouths, to the way they can't even get out of their own way. It's crazy. But such is the lives of some rich people who get caught up in that pride. 

[QCity]

I also learned he named his son "Brick" and takes advice from him.