David, two days without the Jet Way, I will be like a junkie scratching the walls for a fix.
Just joking, your efforts are greatly appreciated by all of your subscribers, the Torch and Pitchfork Brigade..
Presently not having to write about the Jets is a real Xmas gift.
Enjoy your holidays, nothing can ever replace the look on one’s child/ children’s faces on Xmas morning, that is the parent’s supreme reward.
Since one of the extreme pleasures of being a follower is we get to vent. I put a few thoughts together if anybody wants to vent the next couple days. Here is your opportunity.
Unfortunately there is no ending to the story.
Merry Xmas everyone, best of health and happiness. Xmas is not about shopping and gouging at food and drink.
It’s about family.
The Wonderful World of Woody
It would be very easy to bash Woody Johnson for the last 25 years of total Jet below standard mediocrity.
Before we address that statement, let’s try to be fair here.
Woody by the luck of the draw ( or drop) won the gene lottery.
Born the great grandson of the founder of the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical empire.
Woody has never worked a day in his life. I don’t consider sitting in board meetings labor.
He probably has never earned a hard earned nickel aside from the interest earned in his bank account /accounts.
He probably doesn’t know how to earn a nickel. He has never started a buisness from the bottom up. And that’s the issue in hand.
I believe he wants the Jets to win in the worst way but he hasn’t a clue how to run a successful franchise.
As Jet owner, he has tried to invent the wheel.
Examples of his business acumen are the GM can’t fire the HC because they are equal. His clueless brother Chris ended that when JD insisted that he was the only boss when hired.
All the other 31 franchises basically have the GM in power. Exceptions like Andy Reid have proven their talent. So Chris basically brought the Jets management situation up to 2020 standards
He has tried to hire a GM by using an outside headhunter with no NFL ties. Glad to meet you Mr GM John Idzik. That disaster lasted two years.
He hired relatively successful ex GM, Charley Casserly to do a GM search among NFL offices.
Unfortunately he trusted Casserly too much. Casserly’s endless search gave the Jets Mike McCagnan, the worst GM in Jet history. McCagnan’s greatest achievement was that he was Casserly’s Coffee gopher for years, never had one great player on his scouting resume.
In fact, the week the Jets hired McCagnan, the Texans were going to fire him. Thank you Charlie for your loyalty to Mr Coffee. Casserly should be #2 on the Jet fans list of despicable NFL people after Belichick
Let’s not forget brother Chris who got so hot and bothered when Peyton Manning called him recommending Adam Gase, Chris got a woody. The HC search ended right there, Gase was hired. Clueless told us a few times that Gase had a brilliant offensive mind. Ok, if you say so Chris.
Another example of Woody’s great winning football instincts was the Tebow deal.
Jet team president Neil Glat ( another Jet boss with no football experience) convinced Woody that by acquiring Tebow, he would sell thousands of Tebow jerseys.
So Woody forced pencil pusher GM Mike Tannenbaum to give up two picks, give both Tebow and Sanchez a raise just to sell jerseys.
You don’t win super bowls trading draft picks away for players who can’t play, plus screwing up your cap by acquiring these players.
Woody’s quote the day after the trade. I see Tebow jerseys wherever I travel.
Could you just imagine Woody’s reaction when they acquired Rodgers, his jersey was jumping out of stores.
Woody if you are so interested in selling jerseys why didn’t you buy out Modells or Sports Authority,
So someone who knows sports team ownership could have bought the Jets, because you’re clueless as far as NFL ownership goes.
Many people say he is cheap. He definitely isn’t’. I can’t call someone cheap when he gives Trumaine Johnson 44 million and
Lev’on Bell over 64 million. Mosley at 87 million was a bit excessive.
Again, Woody’s lack of buisness acumen and giving Mr Coffee a blank checkbook was a disaster in the making. Again his lack of buisness acumen revealed its ugly head.
Woody, like the Wizard of Oz, was the voice behind the curtain manipulations that gave the Jets major headlines with the acquisition of the Packer twins, Favre and Rodgers. Don’t think for one moment that he wasn’t the driving force in those two deals.
Favre played Woody and the Jets like a drum to land up in Minnesota.
Woody had to cut Jet favorite Chad Pennington to fit Favre into the Jets cap.
All Pennington did was get picked up by the Fins who then won the AFC east for them. Something Farve failed to do for the Jets.
By the way, Favre, a really classy guy, one year here, at least 2 lawsuits over sexual harassment against him brought on by two Jet female employees.
While the last chapter of Rodger’s Jet career hasn’t been written yet, based on his time already spent here, it doesn’t look promising.
Again in true Woody fashion, money, draft picks and roster spots were given to Rodger’s friends to keep him happy.
The roll call of Rodger’s Friends list include, offensive genius Nate Hackett, Randall Cobb, Dalvin Cook, Billie “ The Turnstile “ Turner . Allan Lazard and the incomparable Tim Boyle who surrendered the longest return of an intercepted Hail Mary in NFL history, Jevon Hollands 99 yard td return on Black Friday.
Woody lobbied the NFL hard to have the Black Friday afternoon game a permanent Jets home game. Unfortunately for Woody and fortunately for the fans, the Jets getting destroyed 34-13, having 208 total yards, getting sacked 7 times plus the Hail Mary return was a deal breaker on the permanent Black Friday game. I’m sure Woody and his Tebow selling Jersey geniuses would have come up with a Black Friday Jets cap and a Black Friday Jet T- Shirt.
A Black Friday special of $89.95 for both get them while they last.
Woody has been known to be triggered by fans reaction on social media to make decisions.
Saleh is probably unemployed due to fans outbursts on social media.
In this particular case, it initially appeared the fans and Woody probably got it right. But history has shown us, Saleh’s termination has made a bad situation worse.
In firing Saleh he undermined his GM.
Woody has used social media to help determine the direction he is taking the team.
The one mystifying thing and one that probably would never happen is that Woody has never reacted to the most repeated, overwhelming Jet rant on social media
WOODY, SELL THE TEAM !!!!!
SELL WOODY SELL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Forbes currently has the Jet franchise in 5th place with a value of 6.9 billion. Woody and Chris purchased the Jets for the paltry sum of $635 million, thank you gramps for making Baby Shampoo, Q-Tips and Baby Oil. We couldn’t have purchased the Jets without you.
Yes, we understand why Woody doesn’t want to sell.
NFL ownership is an exclusive club that only has 32 members, 32 extraordinary rich members.
When you take into consideration that this is currently Woody’s 25th year of ownership. The team record for those 24 plus years is 171-227, an astounding .429 winning percentage. Has only made the playoffs 6 times winning 6 games losing 6. Take into consideration his meddling in player acquisition and his firing of Saleh without consulting his GM plus showing Mangini the door for complaining about his must attend Monday morning meetings.
Woody has shown to be the worse owner in the NFL.
It doesn’t help Woody that his PSL
money grab resulted in the destruction of home field advantage in his ugly looking stadium. His PSL nonsense made Woody appear to be the next great magician. The Jets ten year waiting list like magic, disappeared overnight.
Another fringe benefit of being a Jet season ticket holder aside from PSLs is this new larceny of having to pay for the 2025 season by October of 2024. Woody have you no shame.
Coming this January, much to the dismay of Jet fans the world over, Woody will be hiring the 6th GM since the Johnson’s acquired the Jets from the Hess family, and you Jet fans thought Leon was bad.
Once the new GM is hired, then counting Ulbrich, the 9th HC of the Johnson’s Reign of Error will be introduced to the playoff starved masses.
Based on the hirings done in the past by the Johnson’s, most Jet fans are expecting the worst and unfortunately that will be the result.
Never has such a loyal fan base been so tortured by the incompetence of it’s favorite teams owner.
Unfortunately for Jet fans, I’m sure Woody and Clueless Chris have a couple of sons who are biting at the bit that one day they will be running the Jets wearing their $3,000 Armani suits with a $29 Jet cap.
The rumor of a Joe Willie Super Bowl curse is a myth.
Thankyou David, the team may be rubbish but your content isn't, I look forward to every newsletter. Thankyou for all of your hard work and coverage, happy holidays
David you always have the best content when it comes to the Jets. It is concise, well thought out and always to the point. I am so glad I subscribed to your newsletter; I was getting so tired of all the faux sports journalists and their nonsensical drivel and folderol. Despite the Jets being once again in the crapper, your excellent information and writing is like a whiff of pure oxygen after a hangover of biblical proportions, lol.
Happy Christmas to you, your saintly wife and your little ones. Enjoy the brief respite, because after Buffalo, there will be more than likely be gnashing of teeth and rending of garments, lol.
And a Very Merry Christmas to all of the devotees of David's excellent publication and their families.
David, when the Jets' season went bust early, I was ready to cancel my subscription, and still may, but I have hung on because of the info you bring to the table, and the family atmosphere we have here with a great group of posters. We'll see what the new year brings.
Thanks for all you do. Have a blessed Christmas and New Years! As Bobber said, seeing your children's faces on Christmas Day is a special thing. Memorize their faces, burn them into your memory. After all, one of these days before you know it, they'll be teenagers and you'll be wondering why you ever had children! LOL You can then remember their sweet, innocent faces from Christmas Day, and maybe that will keep you from giving them the boot!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all. TJW is the only bright spot being a Jets fan right now. David and the rest of the posters make my day. Thanks to everyone. Next year things will be different, I didn’t say better just different.
David, two days without the Jet Way, I will be like a junkie scratching the walls for a fix.
Just joking, your efforts are greatly appreciated by all of your subscribers, the Torch and Pitchfork Brigade..
Presently not having to write about the Jets is a real Xmas gift.
Enjoy your holidays, nothing can ever replace the look on one’s child/ children’s faces on Xmas morning, that is the parent’s supreme reward.
Since one of the extreme pleasures of being a follower is we get to vent. I put a few thoughts together if anybody wants to vent the next couple days. Here is your opportunity.
Unfortunately there is no ending to the story.
Merry Xmas everyone, best of health and happiness. Xmas is not about shopping and gouging at food and drink.
It’s about family.
The Wonderful World of Woody
It would be very easy to bash Woody Johnson for the last 25 years of total Jet below standard mediocrity.
Before we address that statement, let’s try to be fair here.
Woody by the luck of the draw ( or drop) won the gene lottery.
Born the great grandson of the founder of the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical empire.
Woody has never worked a day in his life. I don’t consider sitting in board meetings labor.
He probably has never earned a hard earned nickel aside from the interest earned in his bank account /accounts.
He probably doesn’t know how to earn a nickel. He has never started a buisness from the bottom up. And that’s the issue in hand.
I believe he wants the Jets to win in the worst way but he hasn’t a clue how to run a successful franchise.
As Jet owner, he has tried to invent the wheel.
Examples of his business acumen are the GM can’t fire the HC because they are equal. His clueless brother Chris ended that when JD insisted that he was the only boss when hired.
All the other 31 franchises basically have the GM in power. Exceptions like Andy Reid have proven their talent. So Chris basically brought the Jets management situation up to 2020 standards
He has tried to hire a GM by using an outside headhunter with no NFL ties. Glad to meet you Mr GM John Idzik. That disaster lasted two years.
He hired relatively successful ex GM, Charley Casserly to do a GM search among NFL offices.
Unfortunately he trusted Casserly too much. Casserly’s endless search gave the Jets Mike McCagnan, the worst GM in Jet history. McCagnan’s greatest achievement was that he was Casserly’s Coffee gopher for years, never had one great player on his scouting resume.
In fact, the week the Jets hired McCagnan, the Texans were going to fire him. Thank you Charlie for your loyalty to Mr Coffee. Casserly should be #2 on the Jet fans list of despicable NFL people after Belichick
Let’s not forget brother Chris who got so hot and bothered when Peyton Manning called him recommending Adam Gase, Chris got a woody. The HC search ended right there, Gase was hired. Clueless told us a few times that Gase had a brilliant offensive mind. Ok, if you say so Chris.
Another example of Woody’s great winning football instincts was the Tebow deal.
Jet team president Neil Glat ( another Jet boss with no football experience) convinced Woody that by acquiring Tebow, he would sell thousands of Tebow jerseys.
So Woody forced pencil pusher GM Mike Tannenbaum to give up two picks, give both Tebow and Sanchez a raise just to sell jerseys.
You don’t win super bowls trading draft picks away for players who can’t play, plus screwing up your cap by acquiring these players.
Woody’s quote the day after the trade. I see Tebow jerseys wherever I travel.
Could you just imagine Woody’s reaction when they acquired Rodgers, his jersey was jumping out of stores.
Woody if you are so interested in selling jerseys why didn’t you buy out Modells or Sports Authority,
So someone who knows sports team ownership could have bought the Jets, because you’re clueless as far as NFL ownership goes.
Many people say he is cheap. He definitely isn’t’. I can’t call someone cheap when he gives Trumaine Johnson 44 million and
Lev’on Bell over 64 million. Mosley at 87 million was a bit excessive.
Again, Woody’s lack of buisness acumen and giving Mr Coffee a blank checkbook was a disaster in the making. Again his lack of buisness acumen revealed its ugly head.
Woody, like the Wizard of Oz, was the voice behind the curtain manipulations that gave the Jets major headlines with the acquisition of the Packer twins, Favre and Rodgers. Don’t think for one moment that he wasn’t the driving force in those two deals.
Favre played Woody and the Jets like a drum to land up in Minnesota.
Woody had to cut Jet favorite Chad Pennington to fit Favre into the Jets cap.
All Pennington did was get picked up by the Fins who then won the AFC east for them. Something Farve failed to do for the Jets.
By the way, Favre, a really classy guy, one year here, at least 2 lawsuits over sexual harassment against him brought on by two Jet female employees.
While the last chapter of Rodger’s Jet career hasn’t been written yet, based on his time already spent here, it doesn’t look promising.
Again in true Woody fashion, money, draft picks and roster spots were given to Rodger’s friends to keep him happy.
The roll call of Rodger’s Friends list include, offensive genius Nate Hackett, Randall Cobb, Dalvin Cook, Billie “ The Turnstile “ Turner . Allan Lazard and the incomparable Tim Boyle who surrendered the longest return of an intercepted Hail Mary in NFL history, Jevon Hollands 99 yard td return on Black Friday.
Woody lobbied the NFL hard to have the Black Friday afternoon game a permanent Jets home game. Unfortunately for Woody and fortunately for the fans, the Jets getting destroyed 34-13, having 208 total yards, getting sacked 7 times plus the Hail Mary return was a deal breaker on the permanent Black Friday game. I’m sure Woody and his Tebow selling Jersey geniuses would have come up with a Black Friday Jets cap and a Black Friday Jet T- Shirt.
A Black Friday special of $89.95 for both get them while they last.
Woody has been known to be triggered by fans reaction on social media to make decisions.
Saleh is probably unemployed due to fans outbursts on social media.
In this particular case, it initially appeared the fans and Woody probably got it right. But history has shown us, Saleh’s termination has made a bad situation worse.
In firing Saleh he undermined his GM.
Woody has used social media to help determine the direction he is taking the team.
The one mystifying thing and one that probably would never happen is that Woody has never reacted to the most repeated, overwhelming Jet rant on social media
WOODY, SELL THE TEAM !!!!!
SELL WOODY SELL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Forbes currently has the Jet franchise in 5th place with a value of 6.9 billion. Woody and Chris purchased the Jets for the paltry sum of $635 million, thank you gramps for making Baby Shampoo, Q-Tips and Baby Oil. We couldn’t have purchased the Jets without you.
Yes, we understand why Woody doesn’t want to sell.
NFL ownership is an exclusive club that only has 32 members, 32 extraordinary rich members.
When you take into consideration that this is currently Woody’s 25th year of ownership. The team record for those 24 plus years is 171-227, an astounding .429 winning percentage. Has only made the playoffs 6 times winning 6 games losing 6. Take into consideration his meddling in player acquisition and his firing of Saleh without consulting his GM plus showing Mangini the door for complaining about his must attend Monday morning meetings.
Woody has shown to be the worse owner in the NFL.
It doesn’t help Woody that his PSL
money grab resulted in the destruction of home field advantage in his ugly looking stadium. His PSL nonsense made Woody appear to be the next great magician. The Jets ten year waiting list like magic, disappeared overnight.
Another fringe benefit of being a Jet season ticket holder aside from PSLs is this new larceny of having to pay for the 2025 season by October of 2024. Woody have you no shame.
Coming this January, much to the dismay of Jet fans the world over, Woody will be hiring the 6th GM since the Johnson’s acquired the Jets from the Hess family, and you Jet fans thought Leon was bad.
Once the new GM is hired, then counting Ulbrich, the 9th HC of the Johnson’s Reign of Error will be introduced to the playoff starved masses.
Based on the hirings done in the past by the Johnson’s, most Jet fans are expecting the worst and unfortunately that will be the result.
Never has such a loyal fan base been so tortured by the incompetence of it’s favorite teams owner.
Unfortunately for Jet fans, I’m sure Woody and Clueless Chris have a couple of sons who are biting at the bit that one day they will be running the Jets wearing their $3,000 Armani suits with a $29 Jet cap.
The rumor of a Joe Willie Super Bowl curse is a myth.
The reality of a Johnson curse is alive and well.
My condolences to all Jets fans.
Thanks Bobber and Merry Christmas to you and your family
Same to you and your family
Merry Christmas, Bobber!!!
Merry Christmas, JO to you and yours!
Thankyou David, the team may be rubbish but your content isn't, I look forward to every newsletter. Thankyou for all of your hard work and coverage, happy holidays
Happy Holidays!
David,
Wishing you and your family a very happy season,
and thank you for your good work in such troubling times.
Jeff
Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays, Jeff.
Wishing you a happy seasons greeting!
....and a Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Thank you for all your efforts this year. Lets hope for an improvement from the Jets next year......we live in hope!
Neal
(Norfolk, UK)
Merry Christmas, Neal, to you and yours!
David you always have the best content when it comes to the Jets. It is concise, well thought out and always to the point. I am so glad I subscribed to your newsletter; I was getting so tired of all the faux sports journalists and their nonsensical drivel and folderol. Despite the Jets being once again in the crapper, your excellent information and writing is like a whiff of pure oxygen after a hangover of biblical proportions, lol.
Happy Christmas to you, your saintly wife and your little ones. Enjoy the brief respite, because after Buffalo, there will be more than likely be gnashing of teeth and rending of garments, lol.
And a Very Merry Christmas to all of the devotees of David's excellent publication and their families.
Mike, Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to you and yours!
David, when the Jets' season went bust early, I was ready to cancel my subscription, and still may, but I have hung on because of the info you bring to the table, and the family atmosphere we have here with a great group of posters. We'll see what the new year brings.
Thanks for all you do. Have a blessed Christmas and New Years! As Bobber said, seeing your children's faces on Christmas Day is a special thing. Memorize their faces, burn them into your memory. After all, one of these days before you know it, they'll be teenagers and you'll be wondering why you ever had children! LOL You can then remember their sweet, innocent faces from Christmas Day, and maybe that will keep you from giving them the boot!
Hang in there!
Merry Christmas my friend! 🥰
Merry Christmas, Ron!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all. TJW is the only bright spot being a Jets fan right now. David and the rest of the posters make my day. Thanks to everyone. Next year things will be different, I didn’t say better just different.
Thanks David and Happy Holidays to you and your family too