With his future in the NFL looking up in the air, quarterback Aaron Rodgers made it clear to New York Jets owner Woody Johnson who's his favorite option to coach the team. A disappointing start to the 2024 NFL season has forced the New York Jets to make tough decisions early in the year,

So, Woody Johnson is going to find good candidates in the interview process and my selling job to them would begin with the chance to be a legend.

And a report from The Athletic on Tuesday revealed the true extent to which Johnson is involved in everything, including withholding money to re-sign players, forcing the coaching staff to bench players, and a wild suggestion earlier this season to bench future-Hall-of-Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers after only four games.

New York's head coach didn't confirm or deny that the team's owner had a direct hand in certain roster decisions.

The Jets were a quarterback graveyard even before Woody Johnson bought the team for $635 million in 2000. But the tradition has lived on.

According to Rosenblatt and Russini, Jets owner Woody Johnson actually wanted to bench quarterback Aaron Rodgers after the team’s Week 4 loss to the Denver Broncos. Yes, you read that correctly. The Jets owner wanted to bench Rodgers four games into his comeback season from his 2023 Achilles injury.

The burning question surrounding the New York Jets is how much autonomy will a proven candidate agree to surrender while working under Woody Johnson's watch? If impressions, observations and reports are all accurate,