If the former New York Jets employees cited in The Athletic’s latest Woody Johnson piece titled, “Woody Johnson’s Jets: ‘Madden’ ratings, a lost season and ‘the most dysfunctional place imaginable,'” are who we think they are, then the organization ultimately made the correct decisions regarding its football program leadership. The article is authored by a near-complete WWE Survivor Series team of three: Dianna Russini, Zack Rosenblatt and Michael Silver. The trio delivers more reported transgressions to Jets Chairman Woody Johnson’s feet, continuing The Athletic’s long-running pattern of anonymous sourcing and hard-to-believe claims— most .
.. or some .
.. or little .
.. or even none of which could be true.
Maybe? I don’t pretend to know where the truth lies. I neither believe nor refute any and all of it. Yet, I’m also not foolish enough to halt myself completely by obsessing over every reported detail—some of which seem to evolve over time (i.
e., reference the “Woody Johnson joke about potentially benching Aaron Rodgers” report, which the Jets have since gone on record as to label as a “joke”). What I do know, however, are three distinct certainties: If the sources in this article are who we think they are—the former Jets employees, whose camps are in the midst of injecting a heavy dose of “damage control”—then Woody’s call to ultimately fire the previous regime was the right one.
No matter where the truth precisely lies matters lit.
