Woody Johnson is dodging media and fans at a time when the Jets need him to speak the most

Woody Johnson is a coward. Usually, I have some clever intro to my articles where I build up to the main point. Not this time. Let me just come right out and say it. Woody Johnson in a coward. At the end of the season, NFL teams are required by the league to make either […]

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Woody Johnson is a coward.

Usually, I have some clever intro to my articles where I build up to the main point. Not this time. Let me just come right out and say it. Woody Johnson in a coward.

At the end of the season, NFL teams are required by the league to make either their coach, GM or owner available for a post season press conference as mandated by NFL media policy. The Jets, being that they have an interim at both head coach and GM, should have logically made Woody Johnson available. But the team “declined the request” to make Woody available to the media.

To satisfy the NFL media policy requirements, the Jets did what they have done all season, and that is throw poor Jeff Ulbrich to the wolves. He handled it like he did everything he did this year; with all the class and professionalism he could muster while being completely unprepared for the position he was thrown into.

I will forever be sorry for the damage done to Jeff Ulbrich’s career as he attempts to find a new job after being shoved into the situation he was in. He is a guy I will always root for and I do believe that someday he will be a head coach, and a good head coach in this league. But naming him the captain of Titanic after the iceberg was not going to help his future.

Woody Johnson hid away from the media so he wouldn’t have to answer the tough questions that fans have been clamoring for all year. Mainly, “what the <expletive> are you doing?”.

Woody Johnson tanked the Jets season when he decided after five games to fire his head coach and replace him with the defensive coordinator with zero plan in place on how that would work. He threw his coaches to the wolves and then ran away from questions on why he did it.

Now, before you start screaming about Bob Saleh, let me say this; I don’t believe he was a great head coach, and I don’t know that he could have turned the season around. But I do know that firing him after five weeks was an impulsive and reckless move that tanked the season. Afterall, looking back on it now, two of the Jets three losses were to playoff teams that combined to go 24-10 this season, and the other loss was to the San Francisco 49ers.

Do the Jets make the playoffs if Saleh stayed the whole season? I don’t know and I don’t think so, but the team wouldn’t be the circus they are today if he did. Saleh should have been fired at the end of last season, or if/when the Jets were eliminated this season. What Woody Johnson did was the equivalent of throwing a Hail Mary in the second quarter and then be shocked when it was intercepted.

Woody Johnson needs to answer for all of this and right now he is hiding behind his sacrificial lamb of an interim head coach while he puts together one of the most laughable lists of head coaching candidates I have ever seen all while waiting for Robert Kraft to pull his pants down again in front of the entire league.

Johnson answered one question post-game from reporters where he bloviated about the expectations he had for the team and gave a pre-game interview to the NY Post where he fed them all of the platitudes they wanted to hear and shouldering none of the blame.

Woody Johnson is one of the worst owners in American sports and he constantly reminds the fans who live and die for the New York Jets as to why. Buckle up Jets fans. Neither Woody Johnson or the team are going anywhere any time soon.

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