With Dan Snyder Disappeared and the booming commanders, Woody Johnson de Jets is the property of the NFL property

At the beginning of October, after the owner of New York Jets, Woody Johnson, had dismissed head coach Robert Saleh after a start of 2-3, a source with links with the Johnson family tried to contextualize the future of the franchise and transformed the conversation into an unexpected direction. Although 12 games have always stayed in the calendar, staff members already felt a difficult feeling to collapse from the season. The dismissal of Saleh had been unnecessarily disorderly, the managing director Joe Douglas was helpless and looked over his shoulder, and the quarter-Arrière Aaron Rodgers seemed agitated with the property.

Often, some staff have started to wonder if the only stabilizer force would be something entirely outside the field of football. Perhaps, he reasoned, the policy would solve the descending problem of the jets-which swirl almost entirely around Johnson.

“We will see how the (presidential) election takes place,” said a source in early October, referring to a possible victory by Donald Trump. “Maybe it changes certain things for everyone.”

It was not an isolated contemplation. The election has been considered by several sources of jets as a potential boss for the organization. The underlying reasoning had nothing to do with Trump or any kind of political condemnations. It was entirely Johnson. Or more specifically, Woody spell. Maybe Trump would win the elections and send Johnson again to a distant ambassador – giving him something else to think … or at least reducing the number of hours he thought of his jets.

It did not happen, of course. Trump won the elections but did not award any position in Johnson, despite the fact that the owner of the jets gave the position of ambassador to the United Kingdom during his last administration. So Johnson stays there, advancing with the jets in a way that reminds me of the former owner of the Washington commanders, Dan Snyder. I will get there in a moment. But first, let’s go back to all this October conversation on the hoping that something would distance Woody.

I have thought of this conversation several times in the past four months, including when Douglas has finally been dismissed from his dream job, but I finally responded in private with a feeling of relief. I thought about it when the jets went to pick up their next head coach, and I realized that this mess and Woody Johnson would be the best shot of head coach Aaron Glenn to finally hold the reins on the day of the match. I thought about it during the search for the Director General of Jets (perhaps Gerrymanderd), who featured the former director of the NFL Rick Spielman by being hired to help manage the process – then ended with the hiring of Darren Mougey far from the Broncos de Denver … and Mougey hiring Spielman as a main advisor. It is a sequence of events that is explained in the world of Buddy NFL NFL, but which also seems a little bizarre.

Perhaps more than ever, I thought of this October conversation Wednesday, when the NFLPA published its annual polle bulletin of confidential players, a report which presented a single owner of the NFL team obtaining a note “F” of its own players: Woody Johnson.

The three -component exam was nothing less than brutal, noting:

• The average note of owner Woody Johnson for the perceived will to invest in the facilities is 5.58 out of 10 of jet players, a classification of 32 of the 32 owners of clubs in the League.

• Players believe that Johnson does not contribute to a positive team culture, a rank of 32 out of 32.

• The players believe that Johnson is somewhat determined to build a competitive team, a rank of 31 of the 32 NFL franchise owners.

The blows did not stop there either. According to the union report::

The only way that could have been more scathing is that it worked in the evaluation “Ready, Fire, Aim” by Bill Belichick on the way Johnson manages his franchise.

In the simplest terms, Woody Johnson’s players highlighted the biggest problem of their franchise, while suggesting that the last time he was criticized by his locker room in the report of the previous year, he retaliated by cutting amenities and a staff member.

This is where I start thinking about Snyder again. For decades, the NFL team owners groaned in private about Snyder by taking control of a Cornerstone franchise, then by making it run in the ground. Finally, his problems have extended as far from the field as to him. And less than two years after he had mega-yaching his way in sunset, his former franchise has experienced an immediate rebirth rarely seen in professional sports. Not only that, but the players immediately noted the improvements of the new owner Josh Harris, reflecting in an overall note of the card which took the commanders of the 32nd in total in 2023 and 2024 to 11th in 2025.

The owners of NFL clubs and Commissioner Roger Goodell never break and do not say it publicly, but they know when they have a bad owner in a city positioned for grandeur – and that drives them crazy. And that’s what they have on their hands with Johnson who directs the jets. It is in the largest television market in the League, presented in the most visible city in the United States, with a fans base which remains excruciatingly connected despite winning less than 43% of their games since Johnson bought the franchise.

And although this global failure has not completely fallen at Dan Snyder levels, it has certainly tended in this direction for more than a decade. As fear that we do not forget, he did not come from eyebrows either that get up out of the field. Not so long ago, Johnson underwent an investigation by the US State Department in 2020 for allegations of racist and sexist remarks during his mandate as an ambassador of the United Kingdom – an investigation which was ultimately closed “unfounded” days before the end of the first presidential term of Trump.

The closure of all this test was a very well weighted result for the NFL, which would have had a Snyder mess on his hands if the conclusions had gone otherwise. But the fact that a State Department survey even occurred in the first place – that CNN said it was motivated by allegations pronounced to an independent Inspector General – is not either.

The remaining silver lining is that Johnson has not crossed the territory where his colleagues owners of club must weigh on his impact on the rest of the league. And as recently as at the end of January, he told journalists that he had to “be a better owner” while presenting Glenn and Mougey.

“I try to be better,” said Johnson. “And I do self-learning and many people are putting in place for me.”

If we have learned something with bad team owners, proclamations to improve does not mean much. And the trick is to simply stop listening to the people you ask to have you reject and start listening to people who offer criticisms who have not been asked by property. For jets and Woody, it should start with the players. On Wednesday, they sent a message to Johnson who rides almost all the others who examined the franchise.

The owner is the first problem. Everything else is secondary. Until it changes this reality itself – or it becomes bad enough for the NFL to start to rely on Woody as if it was ultimately forced to rely on Dan Snyder – this wooded wart becomes greater, more ugly and more inspired.