Jets' Woody Johnson: We need a youth movement

For the first time in his ownership tenure while using Jets, Woody Johnson is green-lighting some sort of youth movement. "If you want to attend the promised land, you have to go ahead a certain direction, " Johnson told ESPN Radio stations on Tuesday. "I think this can be a direction we've never tried inside 17 years I've been of this particular Jets. We've never gone in this way. " He added that the team is focused on "getting the right style of player in the locker area... young... build through the write... young free agents that many guys don't even pay attention to, the guys who wasn't drafted. A lot of good players on the market play American football, a lot of all of them. " While building through the draft is usually a fairly obvious method connected with success, a look back with the last decade of Aircraft history shows a hesitance. To Johnson's credit in lots of ways, he's never seen the franchise that remote from a playoff berth. That has caused your club to interrupt what really should have been obvious rebuilding several years -- 2012 through 2014 and 2016 come to mind -- for the search for a veteran-heavy roster designed on free-agent acquisitions. Unfortunately, the aggressive play possesses left the club in what NFL Network analyst Daniel Jeremiah called one of several worst rosters in your National Football League. The Jets are seeking to rid themselves of unneeded assets like safety Calvin Pryor and also defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson whilst simultaneously propping up what they believe to be the future. Leonard Williams is among the best defensive linemen in footballing. One has to imagine Muhammad Wilkerson is on his long ago after a down year. Guard Brian Winters was just signed into a long-term deal. All of these players are 27 or young. Even the Jets' perhaps most obviously free-agent acquisition, Morris Claiborne, is three years from his 30th birthday. When general manager Mike Maccagnan arrived a couple of years ago and, to much fanfare, signed Darrelle Revis along with Antonio Cromartie together again, he was interrupting what had for ages been a plan to reassemble the Jets from the ground up. Maccagnan's predecessor, John Idzik, was brought in specifically to completely clean up the team's salary-cap place and increase its set up capital -- something he / she did almost immediately. When the draft production did not meet expectations, the franchise took a hardcore right turn back towards Rex Ryan days -- speedy, flashy veteran signings to bandage the actual, significant issues. The question now is whether Johnson will continue to be the course. Should the Jets struggle in 2017, there will be a solid inclination to clean house and start again. But a youth activity is rarely fun or perhaps easy. "Really, the way I need to be judged, hopefully from the fans' understanding, is just watch how we improve during the 12 months, " Johnson said. "Look at each individual around the team, and if they're getting better, that's a mark connected with progress. That's what we're seeking. " At last, looking forward the Madden 18 and Madden NFL 18 Coins.