Not solely do the New York Jets maintain a disappointing 3-8 file this season, however they’ve been embroiled in controversy over the previous a number of weeks.
Earlier this season, head coach Robert Saleh was fired throughout his fourth season, and now common supervisor Joe Douglas was fired earlier than finishing his sixth season with the workforce.
It appears to the remainder of the league that it’s beginner hour in New York, and whereas many have blamed quarterback Aaron Rodgers for the chaos, former Jets offensive lineman Damien Woody positioned the blame on proprietor Woody Johnson.
Referencing a report that Johnson needed to bench Rodgers, Woody stated the proprietor is simply too hands-on when it comes to personnel selections.
“Anybody who’s been affiliated with the Jets group clearly is aware of that Woody Johnson … behind the scenes does pull quite a lot of strings,” Woody stated on “The Jim Rome Present.” “… There stays one fixed why the Jets have remained in futility … that’s Woody Johnson.”
Johnson has owned the Jets since 2000, and through that point, they’ve made the playoffs six instances.
They reached the AFC Championship Recreation in consecutive seasons (2009 and 2010), however they haven’t been again to the postseason since, which is the longest drought within the main skilled sports activities.
After they traded for Rodgers previous to final season, they anticipated him to make them official championship contenders, however as an alternative, the experiment has disintegrated right into a catastrophe full of accidents, miscues, losses and firings.
The pondering is that Rodgers performed a job within the firing of Saleh and that the franchise could also be catering to his whims.
There are actually whispers that Rodgers might transfer on to a different workforce after this season, and that Johnson’s future with the Jets could also be in query as he might obtain a job within the new presidential administration.
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