New York Jets proprietor Woody Johnson received the one failing grade by group members within the NFL’s gamers union report card launched Wednesday.
The flunk ought to come as no shock. The Jets’ 14 straight seasons with out making the playoffs tops four major North American sports, and their abandoned two-year experiment with growing old famous person quarterback Aaron Rodgers was a bust.
The “F” grade particularly addressed ownership’s contribution “to a optimistic group tradition” with gamers noting the group’s “top-down issues.”
In a damning evaluation, the NFL Gamers Affiliation wrote: “Fairly than addressing issues, gamers believed that administration responded to suggestions by making circumstances worse.”
The image received bleaker on the scouting mix, the place NFLPA chief technique officer J.C. Tretter elaborated on the Jets’ survey. ”[The players said,] ‘It’s a tradition of worry right here.’ And I feel that stood out in these grades,” he mentioned, per ESPN.
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The Jets ranked twenty ninth out of 32 groups total in 11 classes, which included meals, locker room and remedy of households. Practically 1,700 gamers voted.
Johnson fired the pinnacle coach early within the season and received crappy outcomes after that.
Now Johnson, who served as U.S. ambassador to the UK within the first Trump administration, is attempting one other group employees reboot with Jets alum Aaron Glenn as head coach and Darren Mougey as basic supervisor.
“Completely, I’ve to look within the mirror, and I have to be a better owner,” Johnson mentioned after hiring the 2.
The report card mentioned the identical factor ― LOUDLY.
