

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — New York Jets owner Woody Johnson had pointed words regarding the NFL Players Association’s annual team report cards.
“My first read is I think it’s totally bogus,” said Johnson, speaking to reporters at the NFL owners’ meetings on Monday. “But we want to get better every day. I want to be No. 1 in everything.”
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The Jets ranked 29th out of the league’s 32 teams, and Johnson ranked last in a question about each owners’ willingness to invest in facilities. According to a release distributed by the union when the report cards were unveiled in February, 1,695 NFL players (roughly 77 percent of NFLPA membership) took part in the survey, which was conducted from Aug. 26 to Nov. 20, 2024.
When asked in a followup what specifically about the survey was bogus, Johnson answered: “The whole thing. How they collected the information, who they collected it from, it’s supposed to be a process where we have representatives and they have representatives so we know it’s an honest survey. And that was violated in my opinion. So I’ll leave it at that. But there’s a lot of owners that looked at this survey and said this is not fair, not balanced, it’s not every player, it’s not even representative of the players.”
On Monday, Johnson also addressed, among other things, a Sports Business Journal report that the team offered buyouts to approximately 170 of the team’s 250 employees, with responses due on Monday.
“That’s something we thought was consistent with what we were doing in changing the culture, giving everybody a chance to go in a different direction if they wanted, seek other opportunities,” Johnson said. “But also to move the whole organization forward in a new and slightly different way. We’re in a major transition in terms of culture and the way we do things. It was just, we haven’t really made major changes in the organization itself in years, in decades, so we thought this was a good time to give everybody a chance to re-evaluate what they’re doing in their lives and the plans we’re going to.”
Asked if the organization would have involuntary layoffs if not enough employees accepted buyouts, Johnson answered: “I’ll just say we put it out there and we’ll see how it goes. This is something that’s been done thousands of times before.”
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