Jets proprietor Woody Johnson acknowledged he learn a current article by The Athletic that painted him as a meddlesome proprietor and the Jets as a dysfunctional group.
Johnson mentioned the article was “absolutely untrue.”
“I think the article is a typical smear piece — unsubstantiated,” Johnson advised The Put up. “Nobody really stood up and put their name on anything. It’s absolutely untrue. Everything was out of context. When you’re losing games, it gives people the artistic license to kind of do what they want.”
The article quoted many nameless sources on the state of the Jets and was notably harsh on Johnson.
It additionally quoted sources saying that Johnson’s teenage son, Brick, has affect over his father and the staff’s choice, one thing Johnson denied.
“He has no role in the organization,” Johnson mentioned.
Johnson did acknowledge that he brings his sons round to be taught the enterprise, simply as his nice grandfather did when he was working Johnson & Johnson.
“In my family, my great grandfather took my grandfather to meetings when he was a teenager,” Johnson mentioned. “He’d dress up in a suit and go to meetings. That’s the way you teach the next generation. That’s what you do. It’s an apprenticeship. Does he have any decision making? Absolutely not. No decision making, despite what you might read.”
