Trouble in Florham Park: Woody Johnson's Jets Controversy

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00:00It's also a bad season in Florham Park for the New York Jets as they get ready to take

00:09on the Rams this week.

00:10They're 4-10.

00:11Now, I'll ask you first, did you see this athletic article this morning that was put

00:16out?

00:17I saw it.

00:18Talk about the video game.

00:20The video game.

00:21So there's a lot of really juicy stuff that was in that article this morning.

00:27We thought Woody Johnson was a bad owner.

00:30I mean, this just makes him just a laughingstock owner.

00:32So the Madden rating thing is the one that's getting the most push.

00:36That's the story that Joe Douglas had a trade for Jerry Judy last offseason, who of course

00:40ended up going to Cleveland, and that Woody Johnson nixed the trade because he told Joe

00:46Douglas that Judy's Madden rating wasn't good enough.

00:51He also didn't want to sign John Simpson because of his Madden awareness rating.

00:55They did sign Simpson, and he's played pretty well for them this year.

00:57Now, why would Woody have any idea about Madden ratings?

01:00That's because apparently his teenage sons, Brick and Jack, have direct influence on football

01:07decisions.

01:08Joe Douglas reportedly told someone, quote, I report to a teenager, end quote.

01:13The infamous meeting at the end of the Bronco game earlier this year in September where

01:17Woody wanted to bench Aaron Rodgers was allegedly, quote, a joke to see how people would react.

01:24Woody last year preferred that they keep draft pick number 257, which of course is

01:29called Mr. Irrelevant, rather than 256.

01:31The team called and wanted to trade for the last pick in the draft.

01:35Woody said no, trade him a better pick.

01:38I want to keep 257 in case we get a Brock Purdy type situation and have a Mr. Irrelevant

01:44that we can sell.

01:45I could keep going if you want.

01:48The Johnson family walk around the locker room disparaging players, both him, the wife,

01:54and the kids.

01:55Woody allegedly told Mike White back in 2022 after they lost to Seattle that he Pharrell

02:00and sucked, and then he had to apologize to him in the locker room after.

02:06Other players have heard the kids, the teenage sons, saying bad things about the players

02:11in the locker room after games.

02:13Woody ripped down all of Robert Salah's all gas, no brake signs earlier this season.

02:19I mean, this goes on and on and on with the amount of influence that Woody Johnson has.

02:26He's the owner.

02:28I understand that, but I think we could call him being a little too hands on as the owner.

02:35About the kids being, about the kids telling him that Judy's Madden rating, and they didn't

02:41trade for him because his Madden rating is bad.

02:44Oh my goodness.

02:45I mean, I am just absolutely floored at what you just read to me.

02:51All of those details are so unbelievable.

02:53Those are just the highlights of the story.

02:57That's craziness.

02:58I don't even know.

02:59I have no real response other than, you got to be kidding me.

03:03I've never heard of anything so damning in my life about an ownership family and the

03:10way they talk to players and treat players and their ideas about who's good and who isn't,

03:17who should stay, who should go.

03:19It's craziness.

03:20It really is.

03:21And it's truly unbelievable.

03:25I don't know what else to say.

03:26I never knew he was that much of an idiot.

03:28What is happening there?

03:31And you know what it all goes back to?

03:33As much as we want to sit here and we bash all these people that have worked for that

03:37organization over the last 10, 15, 20 years, whatever it is, it all goes back to that

03:45guy at the end of the day.

03:47He's a problem.

03:50In fact, in the story, it also said that there was people in the organization that were praying

03:55that Trump would give him that job back in the United Kingdom so that he would go away

03:59again for four years and that Woody was actually legitimately upset when he didn't get it.

04:04And then Trump gave it to somebody else for this year.

04:07Man, Woody done some job owning the Jets.

04:09Just sell the team.

04:10I wouldn't be surprised at all that he was upset about not getting back into the political

04:17end of things for Trump.

04:19He loved that gig.

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