Following the New York Jets acquisition of wide receiver Davante Adams last month, team owner Woody Johnson was quoted as saying, “You know, thinking is overrated,” when trying to assure long-time suffering fans that things would turn around despite another seemingly lost season. The trade for Adams was Johnson’s latest attempt to bring some level of success to a star-crossed franchise that last won a Super Bowl when men were landing on the moon and the Beatles were still a band. It should not be lost on anyone that Johnson has good intentions, means well and is willing to spend money to improve his team. There is a reason he courted future Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers so assiduously two years ago and basically went all in this year to not only break the team’s 13-year playoff drought — the longest streak in all pro sports tied with the woeful Buffalo Sabres — but win a championship. Despite these efforts to change the narrative around the Jets, Johnson’s decisions both on and off the field continue to be the root cause for the team’s mediocrity which has drawn the ire of a snake-bitten fanbase that has seen their fair share of bad football over the years. Woody Johnson is out of touch with reality. This is the same owner who back in 2008 wooed Brett Favre, another aging Hall of Fame quarterback from the Green Bay Packers (sound familiar?), which failed spectacularly when the team started with an 8-3 record but failed to reach the postseason that year. This is an owner who increased season ticket prices 23.2% for the 2025 season despite netting only one winning season since 2010. This is an owner who seems more concerned with what color uniform combination players will wear rather than the play he is producing on the field. And this is an owner who thinks he should be the last voice in making football decisions for the team. What Johnson needs to understand is that he is not particularly good at running a football team. Good owners stay out of the way and let people who know a thing or two about football make those important decisions. To his credit, the Jets did experience some success during the first decade of his ownership when the team won one division title and appeared in two AFC Championship games. But much of that success was the direct result of players he inherited from Bill Parcells and former General Manager Mike Tannenbaum who Parcells hired. Since then, it has been one comical error after another, and Johnson’s fingerprints have been all over this team. Whether it was using a HR recruiting firm to hire John Idzik as his GM in 2013 or firing Head Coach Robert Saleh five games into this season, Johnson has made questionable and ill-timed decisions that have hurt his team. But of all the decisions that Johnson has made during his tenure as owner of the Jets, it is his involvement in politics that seems to be the most detached with fans. It was during the first Trump administration when Woody served as the president’s ambassador to the United Kingdom and handed control of the team to his brother, Christopher Johnson, who was responsible for hiring Adam Gase as the team’s head coach who finished his career with a 9-23 record. Now there are rumors that Johnson is prepping once again to take a political post in a second Trump administration and turning things over to Christopher. Johnson should be free to express his political views or interests, but the optics look bad given his track record as an owner. It sends a message to fans that you are more interested in politics than you are in football. After all, Woody has been on record saying that winning elections is a bigger priority than his team winning games. The combination of longstanding futility with unfulfilled expectations for this year has led to a chorus of fans pleading with Woody to sell the team. While that is highly unlikely, Johnson needs to hire a football czar or someone with acute football knowledge who can hire the right people to finally turn around the fortunes of this depleted franchise. Jets fans are extremely loyal and dedicated to a fault. They spend too much money and emotional capital on this team. They deserve better. Pechdimaldji, a Long Island native and lifelong Jets fan, had season tickets in the 1990s. He moved to California in 2006 but still watches every game.