On Thursday New York Jets owner Woody Johnson addressed the media.\u00a0 Here is the transcript courtesy of the Jets.<\/p>\n
On recent reports involving Rex Ryan\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “It is a private matter. Whatever Rex said to you yesterday, are going to be my comments as well.”<\/p>\n On his initial reaction to the situation\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “My reaction is I don\u2019t really want to talk about that in terms of I\u2019m going to respect Rex and how he wanted to characterize it. It\u2019s a personal matter and that\u2019s the way it is.”<\/p>\n On if he showed support to Ryan\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “He\u2019s still the head coach of the New York Jets. I have a lot of respect for Rex and his family. My respect has not diminished one iota.”<\/p>\n On if there is an update with Sal Alosi\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “Not really. Sal was suspended indefinitely. We haven\u2019t made a final determination. We will at some point, but I haven\u2019t done it to date.”<\/p>\n On if there is a timeline for when he will make a decision on Alosi\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “No. Indefinitely is a pretty long time. We\u2019re focused on the season. We\u2019re focused on the Chicago Bears at this point. In football, that\u2019s about as far as you can go.”<\/p>\n On if they are putting a decision off until the end of the season\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “I\u2019m not really putting it off. We\u2019ve looked at what he did. I don\u2019t know if I said this to you guys, but I apologized to (Dolphins owner) Mr. (Stephen) Ross and asked if his player (Nolan Carroll) was ok. He assured me that the player was fine. He accepted the apology and said, \u201cNo problem.\u201d It\u2019s not a problem for him, (but) it\u2019s a problem for me. I also called (Patriots owner) Bob Kraft and said the same.”<\/p>\n On if there is a reason why they wouldn\u2019t fire Alosi\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “We\u2019re taking a look at it. Obviously, tripping somebody is not something we condone. You can call it a violation of the rules. It\u2019s not called because it\u2019s not done very often. It\u2019s just something where we don\u2019t aspire to this type of action.”<\/p>\n On his call to Bob Kraft\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “I called Bob about any comment that we may have made and how he may have interpreted those comments.”<\/p>\n On if Mike Westhoff\u2019s comments upset him\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “Our job is not to insult another team, particularly from a coach or owner\u2019s standpoint. (We don\u2019t want to insult) another teams\u2019 coaches or players. That\u2019s not what we\u2019re here to do.”<\/p>\n On what happened when they met with the league last week\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “I\u2019m not going to talk about the meeting, but one thing about the New York Jets that I\u2019m very proud of is we are extremely open. As I said right at the beginning with you guys, we, through you, talk to our fans and we\u2019re going to make mistakes. We\u2019re not perfect, but we are pretty good at, once we\u2019ve made a mistake, I think we\u2019re pretty good at trying to make remedies and trying to cure and trying to correct what we\u2019re doing. We try to get better every year and we\u2019re going to work on things like our culture. We\u2019re going to work on trying to make ourselves an organization that doesn\u2019t have, preferably, any incidents. (Although) we know we\u2019re going to have some.”<\/p>\n On thoughts that the perception of the organization is not very good right now\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “I disagree with that, I disagree. First of all, I disagree with the word inordinate. I think one of the things, if you read other media in other towns, I think you\u2019d find perhaps other things. Not to use that as an excuse, but there won\u2019t be any organization, I don\u2019t think, in the public media that\u2019s more accessible than we are. I\u2019ll stand by what I said earlier, I think we\u2019re pretty good at addressing each one of the incidents that we\u2019ve had this year and, hopefully, we won\u2019t have quite as many going forward.”<\/p>\n On what it has been like for him having to deal with a number of incidents\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “You wish some of these things hadn\u2019t happened, but I\u2019m very proud of the organization. I think the organization responded very responsibly in every case and so I think we have the culture that I\u2019m looking for, that is starting to develop and is developed to a point where the people in this building are able to handle it and be resilient and focus on what our real job is, and that\u2019s playing football.”<\/p>\n On whether these incidents stem from loose atmosphere Coach Ryan fosters\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “I don\u2019t agree with that. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s loosey-goosey and I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a lack of discipline. You can\u2019t win the number of games we\u2019ve won, even with a rookie quarterback, with a loosey-goosey anything. I mean, we\u2019re very disciplined. I think the perception is that he smiles maybe or whatever, and that maybe gets confused for a lack of whatever, but I don\u2019t look at it that way and I know his players don\u2019t either. Players want to feel that they\u2019re getting better and they want to feel that the people in command (are) giving them a formula that they\u2019re capable of winning (with), and I think they feel that. I know they feel that.”<\/p>\n On the team being on the verge of another playoff berth\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “It\u2019s very exciting. We have to get the job done this week and that\u2019s what we\u2019re preparing for right now. 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