{"id":53890,"date":"2021-01-04T18:48:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T22:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=53890"},"modified":"2021-01-04T18:48:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T22:48:09","slug":"christopher-johnson-press-conf-reporting-structure-may-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2021\/01\/04\/christopher-johnson-press-conf-reporting-structure-may-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Johnson Press Conf; Reporting Structure May Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Johnson spoke to the media a day after the announcement that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2021\/01\/03\/the-ny-jets-fire-adam-gase\/\">Adam Gase was fired<\/a><\/strong>. Several highlights and quotes from the interview appear below.<\/p>\n<p>The quick version is this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christopher Johnson, Joe Douglas and team president Hymie Elhai will all be doing the interviews.\u00a0 Joe Douglas is leading the effort and &#8220;his opinion will be taken the most seriously&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Woody Johnson will have final say on decision making when he returns, but it doesn&#8217;t sound like he will have an active role in coaching search.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Will the organization structure stay the same? Coach and GM both report to the owner?<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Everything is up in the air here, and that is one of those things that we are considering changing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Why should fans have confidence they will get it right this time?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let me start with why they should have confidence that we\u2019ll get it right. In this room, we\u2019re going to have me, we\u2019re going to have Hymie (Elhai), who has been part of the Jets for 20 years, who was a big part of the search for Joe (Douglas), and he\u2019s a highly trusted adviser to both me and Joe. And we also have Joe, and this is important, Joe has a lot of background, he has a lot of time in this league, he\u2019s well respected and make no mistake, he\u2019s going to be taking lead on this. While this is a collaborative effort, his opinion will be taken most seriously. And I think that the fans can feel safe knowing that we\u2019re going to get this right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>First of all, with Joe, he\u2019s been around a number of very, very good NFL teams. He has seen the best of us, he\u2019s taken it in, and he has strong opinions about how to do this right, how to bring in the right culture. I think we\u2019ve seen with his early moves the direction of that and I think we should have every confidence in him as the man on point in this search. I think fans should have a great deal of confidence in that, I really do. This coach is going to be, as I said to Kim, it\u2019s going to be a coach of the entire team. And one thing I should probably stress is we\u2019re a really young team and with all these draft picks, we\u2019re getting younger. Our new coach and his staff are going to have to be great at developing that young team. But I\u2019m quite confident that Joe and I and Hymie can find this guy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>What role will Woody Johnson play in the coaching search? When will he be back on a full-time basis?<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My brother has one job. His attention is undivided, he is the Ambassador to the (United Kingdom). When he comes back is still uncertain, but I\u2019m personally looking forward to him coming back. Most of my adult life I\u2019ve worked with Woody on a daily basis, and I\u2019ve thoroughly enjoyed that time and that process. And I\u2019m not going any place, I\u2019m still going to be here. There will be a fair amount of continuity, my role will be significant moving forward. But when he does get back, whenever that is, he will of course have the final say on decision making, but I\u2019ll be an important adviser to him and a big part of what happens here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>What kind of coach are you looking for, &#8220;CEO&#8221; that oversees things or someone with an offensive or defensive mindset?<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don\u2019t much like the term CEO either, but it does describe what we\u2019re looking for. We want a head coach that coaches the entire team, end-to-end, and his staff. You don\u2019t have to be offensive, you don\u2019t have to be defensive, this is a coach for the entire team and that\u2019s very important to us looking forward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Why did you wait to make a coaching change?<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The final decision was recent, I won\u2019t get any more specific than that, but I didn\u2019t see change at head coach helping us earlier. I saw the players and coaches were still locked in and you know they came to practice playing hard every day and you\u2019d see them in games, they never gave up, that\u2019s extraordinary. I mean the players I\u2019ve talked to today all remarked on that, that a lot of them have been on teams where people gave up if things didn\u2019t go well. I just don\u2019t think you make a change there midseason. Also, you know, we\u2019ve never done that on this team while we\u2019ve had it, we\u2019ve always allowed a coach a full season, a chance to change the direction and I didn\u2019t feel that it was wise to change that now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Johnson spoke to the media a day after the announcement that Adam Gase was fired. Several highlights and quotes from the interview appear below. The quick version is this: Christopher Johnson, Joe Douglas and team president Hymie Elhai will all be doing the interviews.\u00a0 Joe Douglas is leading the effort and &#8220;his opinion will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":53891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Christopher-Johnson.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-e1c","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53892,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53890\/revisions\/53892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}