Recently the NFL announced that the results of report cards players fill out each year to grade their teams will no longer be made public. Jets owner Woody Johnson was reportedly behind the league’s push to block publication of the grades. Johnson was upset a year ago when Jets players gave him an F for his disastrous behind the scenes meddling.
Since we will not learn how Jets players grade Woody Johnson, I thought it might be a good idea to find out how Jets fans grade him. That was our question last week in our SB Nation Reacts survey. The results were overwhelming.
An overwhelming majority of 90 percent gave Johnson a grade of F. Strikingly, another 7 percent gave Johnson a grade of D.
I don’t think there are many areas where you could get 97 percent of Jets fans to agree. Johnson’s terrible management evidently is one of them. It’s unbelievable to see only 3 percent of fans think the owner deserves a grade of C or higher. Well, it would be unbelievable if we hadn’t watch Johnson’s destructive management.
Nobody really even defends the owner at this point. The most positive argument anybody can muster seems to be simply that despite being a bad owner, Johnson gets too high a proportion of the blame for the Jets’ struggles.
I don’t happen to believe that. In fact, if anything I think Johnson gets off too easy for his hand in setting the Jets’ culture of failure. But the fact the owner is universally regarded is bad, and most of the debate centers on how much of the blame he should get speaks volumes.
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