{"id":138915,"date":"2024-12-19T21:52:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T14:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=138915"},"modified":"2024-12-19T21:52:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T14:52:04","slug":"jets-owner-woody-johnson-vetoed-a-trade-for-jerry-jeudy-over-his-madden-rating-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=138915","title":{"rendered":"Jets owner Woody Johnson vetoed a trade for Jerry Jeudy over his \u2018Madden\u2019 rating: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>By Zack Rosenblatt, Michael Silver and Dianna Russini<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The New York Jets were nearing the finish line on a deal to acquire wide receiver Jerry Jeudy from the Denver Broncos last offseason, but the trade fell apart when Jets owner Woody Johnson nixed the idea over Jeudy\u2019s player rating in the \u201cMadden NFL\u201d video game, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6005172\/2024\/12\/19\/woody-johnson-jets-madden-sons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to multiple team and league sources<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jeudy was eventually traded to the Cleveland Browns instead and became a 1,000-yard receiver there. The Jets, meanwhile, have slumped to 4-10 amid a disappointing season.<\/p>\n<p>Those disappointments have resulted in Johnson orchestrating the firings of head coach Robert Saleh five games into the season and general manager Joe Douglas after Week 12.<\/p>\n<p>In September, Johnson suggested to a room full of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6005172\/2024\/12\/19\/woody-johnson-jets-madden-sons\/\">Jets<\/a> coaches and officials that the team bench future Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers, according to multiple team sources. Instead, a week later Johnson helped pull the strings to land All-Pro wideout Davante Adams to serve as Rodgers\u2019 top receiver, a role that could have been held by Jeudy.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed Jeudy trade wasn\u2019t the only time Johnson cited \u201cMadden\u201d ratings when evaluating players, according to the source. The owner pushed back on signing free-agent guard John Simpson in the offseason due to his \u201cawareness\u201d rating in the video game. The Jets signed Simpson anyway, and he has had a solid season.<\/p>\n<p>To some, the reference to the video game ratings is a sign of Johnson allowing his teenage sons, Brick and Jack, to influence the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we\u2019re discussing things, you\u2019ll hear Woody cite something that Brick or Jack read online that\u2019s being weighed equally against whatever opinion someone else in the department has,\u201d said one Jets executive.<\/p>\n<p>Current and former players and coaches have also said Brick and Jack have brought friends \u2014 male and female \u2014 into the locker room, where Woody Johnson, his wife, Suzanne Ircha Johnson, and his sons have criticized players.<\/p>\n<p>In another instance, on Halloween night this season, Rodgers entered the locker room with a game ball prepared to be given to interim coach Jeff Ulbrich, who just recorded his first win. Instead, Brick Johnson took it upon himself to award a game ball to wide receiver Garrett Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>Woody Johnson then gave Ulbrich the ball Rodgers had been holding. Multiple players said the energy felt drained out of the room. \u201cIt was the most awkward, cringe-worthy, brutal experience,\u201d one player said.<\/p>\n<h2>Required reading<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>(Photo: Kevin Sabitus \/ Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6005485\/2024\/12\/19\/jets-jerry-jeudy-trade-madden-woody-johnson\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Zack Rosenblatt, Michael Silver and Dianna Russini The New York Jets were nearing the finish line on a deal to acquire wide receiver Jerry Jeudy from the Denver Broncos &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=138915\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}