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Every time I open my phone I see degenerates celebrating Luigi Mangione, the vigilante responsible for the senseless murder of a man in Midtown Manhattan.
We are witnessing an attack on CEOs as the brightest minds in our country have become targets of random political violence. People cheer as our titans of industry face imminent danger.
Luigi is a terrorist, regardless of how magnificent his eyelashes are.
Brian Thompson had a wife.
His children will never see their father again.
Mangione isn’t a hero. Sorry, I don’t support murder but we live in a rapidly decaying society. Whatever happened to class and decorum? Every life matters as far as I’m concerned but they won’t print that on t-shirts.
New York Jets owner and heir to the Johnson & Johnson throne, Woody Johnson, is the next CEO under fire as daily reports are attempting to frame him as some sort of meddling buffoon getting in the way of his team’s success.
The Athletic released a hit piece, detailing Woody Johnson’s rule over the Jets and how his two teenage sons have a major say in the team-building process.
Like the time former GM, Joe Douglas, attempted to trade for Jerry Jeudy—a former first-round wide receiver who was underachieving in Denver but could’ve reached his potential catching passes from Aaron Rodgers—but Douglas was overruled by Woody who said Jerry Jeudy’s overall rating in Madden was too low—a fact he 1000% received from his son.
Jerry Jeudy was instead traded to the Cleveland Browns—currently sitting with 1,000+ receiving yards for the first time in his career playing with a QB room full of guys passing a bottle of Elmer’s glue back and forth to eat during film sessions—while the Jets passing offense was nonexistent until they got their hands on Davante Adams a few weeks ago.
Woody’s sons, Brick and Jack, gave their father some valuable intel—Jeudy’s Madden rating— and Woody made an informed decision based on the information available to him.
You can’t fault the man for caring about his children’s opinions or are we attacking good fathers in this country now???? Wouldn’t shock me with the way things are going. Some Ohio politician is probably working on a bill to ban Father’s Day right now.
There’s a narrative that Woody Johnson is too involved in the Jets day-to-day operations, instead of allowing his GM to do what Woody’s paying him to do but that couldn’t be further from the truth.
Johnson doesn’t even give his input on draft night.
During the annual NFL Draft, Johnson is known to keep to himself while decisions are being made, according to one former executive, then exit the room and retreat to a nearby snack bar with confidants to make “smart-ass lines” about the front office’s decisions.
See, Woody Johnson allows his front office to select draft picks on their own.
All he does is abruptly leave the room after bad picks to talk shit with his friends before returning to the draft room quietly as if nothing happened.
A bad boss would freak out and embarrass his employee in the room.
A good boss will noticeably leave the room—with the 3 or 4 weirdos on the payroll exclusively to reassure the boss how right he is about everything—and mock the execs behind their back.
It’s called good leadership and I don’t understand why Woody is being depicted as an incompetent doof.
The man is the former UK Ambassador and you know he’s a former ambassador because the Athletic report says Woody forces people to address him as “Mr. Ambassador”, even though Trump won this election and selected a totally different man to serve as his UK Ambassador, to the surprise of Woody.
So what if Woody hired the 33rd team to help him with his next GM/head coach hire?
And so what if the 33rd team is just some NFL startup blog run by failed NFL execs and coaches—including former GM Mike Tannenbaum and former head coach Adam Gase—both fired by Woody Johnson within the last decade?
A stubborn, ego-driven man would never ask a man he once deemed not good enough for the job to help him find the guy who is good enough for that job.
But a wise, understanding man has no problem going back and asking a group of bloggers who spend all their time writing NFL Power Rankings and Mock Drafts to help in the search for the next great Jets GM.
So many people are quick to judge Woody without acknowledging how difficult it is to run a professional sports franchise—while also sometimes being a political ambassador—while also preparing your children to one day suddenly have access to a bajillion dollars because of the work of their ancestors building a pharmaceutical brand.
The timing of these stories, following the death of Brian Thompson, should worry you. The media may be responsible for another homicide.
Will Woody Johnson suffer the same fate as Brian Thompson?
Two men who make their bones in the medical field—two men who have dedicated their lives to making exorbitant amounts of money through the suffering of their customers—like, they’d go out of business if people were healthy which means they literally can only profit off pain and misery.
One has not only been slain in broad daylight but his killer has been lionized by the same people who are attempting to frame Woody Johnson as a rich, spoiled imbecile and I refuse to participate in the death of a father, a father named Wood who then named his son Brick.
Fortunately, if something does happen to Woody, Brick is more than ready to step up and lead the Jets. Like the time he took the game ball away from new interim head coach, Jeff Ulbrich, and gave it to Garrett Wilson instead because he had a big, cool reception during the game.
This year, on Halloween night, the Jets registered their first victory since Saleh’s firing four weeks earlier. It was a significant moment for a struggling team. Rodgers walked into an energized locker room with a game ball in hand, and it was expected that he’d give the ball to Ulbrich, a customary gesture when a coach gets his first NFL win.
But before Rodgers could speak, Brick Johnson took another game ball and awarded it to wide receiver Garrett Wilson in a profanity-laced exclamation, which the owner’s son later posted to Instagram. Woody Johnson then gave Ulbrich the ball Rodgers had been holding. Multiple players said the energy felt drained out of the room.
“It was the most awkward, cringe-worthy, brutal experience,” one player said.
Fine, attack Brian Thompson and Woody Johnson all you want. Their children can’t wait to step up and be the most annoying versions of their fathers.
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