A recent report highlights the unusual influence of New York Jets owner Woody Johnson's sons on team decisions. The sons, Brick and Jack, have become increasingly involved in team meetings and their online research has reportedly been given equal weight to the opinions of experienced executives.
With the New York Jets at 4-10 and playing just for fun over the next three weeks, it's time for the 'now they tell us' pieces chronicling the dysfunction that contributed to all those unrealized expectations. It sounds as though Johnson has been doing his own research and giving a lot of credence to his sons' opinions, something that has added to the internal strife. When Johnson left for the U.K. in 2017, his sons, Brick and Jack, were 11 and 9, respectively.
When he returned, they were teenagers. Last year, Johnson started including his sons in some meetings at the team facility. For some Jets employees, the sons’ increasing involvement clarified their father’s propensity for sharing posts from X and articles from various outlets, including a blog called “Jets X-Factor,” with the organization’s top decision-makers. “When we’re discussing things, you’ll hear Woody cite something that Brick or Jack read online that’s being weighed equally against whatever opinion someone else in the department has,” said one Jets executive. “I answer to a teenager,” Douglas quipped to people close to him before the season in an acknowledgment of the perceived power dynamic. Now, there's nothing necessarily wrong with that. NFL teams are enormous brands and orginzations and they can be run in a thousand different ways while still finding success. Anyone reading the piece from home can understand the drive to want to do things one's own way and the whole point of owning a team is exercising control and following a vision. If the Jets were 10-4 instead of 4-10 we might all might be reading a different piece this morning, one that paints Gang Green as the newBut that's not the case. So an anecdote about the pursuit of then-Denver Bronco Jerry Jeudy last offseason derailed by video game ratings lands differentl
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