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New York Jets fans have long had concerns about owner Woody Johnson. However, the last year has shown why he is one of the worst in the game, and a new story this week piles on more evidence.
Over his first 10 years as owner of the Jets, it seemed like Johnson was a rock-solid team boss in a town with several questionable owners. While he had some hits and misses, New York reached the playoffs six times from 2000 to 2010 and made back-to-back trips to the AFC Championship.
However, things have gotten bad for the Jets, and the franchise has not returned to the playoffs since 2010. Making matters worse, in recent years, more stories have emerged about Johnson and why he is among the worst owners in the NFL.
The most infamous was a New York Times expose last year that revealed the Jets owner allowed his teenage sons to sit in on team meetings and influence him on roster decisions based on their knowledge of players from their Madden video game ratings.
More evidence of how bad Johnson is came during a media scrum last week, when he took a jab at current starting QB Justin Fields, saying, “It’s hard when you have a quarterback with a rating that he’s got. I mean, he has ability, but something just is not jiving.”
Jordan Travis addresses Woody Johnson’s comments on Justin Fields 👀 pic.twitter.com/GZfVQCm7hp
— Travis Take Two (@travistaketwo) October 29, 2025
Was Johnson wrong about Fields? No. The quarterback has been pretty bad for much of the season. But publicly embarrassing surely isn’t going to help the matter. Well, it seems Justin Fields wasn’t the only QB Johnson took a shot at in recent years, and in this instance, it was to his face.
During a recent edition of his podcast, former Jets QB Jordan Travis revealed something Johnson once said to him that instilled zero confidence in the young signal-caller.
“There was things that was said to me, not obviously to the point [of what was said to Fields], because I never got on the field to play, but about my leg,” Travis recalled. “I don’t know if he was trying to be slick about it or you know how some older people just say whatever comes to their mind. It made me feel a certain kind of way, [but he said] ‘Are you ever going to get healthy?’ And I’m just like, ‘Damn.’ It was always comments like that.”
Travis was drafted by the Jets in 2024 after he suffered a fractured and dislocated ankle in his final game at Florida State. They took him knowing his health issues but felt it was worth the risk in the fifth round that year. Unfortunately, the injury never allowed him to continue his playing career.
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