New York Jets owner Woody Johnson is pushing back on rumors about his son's involvement in front office decisions. An article from Zack Rosenblatt,

Woody Johnson, a 77-year-old former US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, likely plays less Madden than Brick does. The Madden anecdote was one of several examples in the article that painted the Jets as a dysfunctional organization.

Jets owner Woody Johnson insists his teenage son has no influence on the team's decisions and referred to a recent report about the organization's dysfunction as a "smear piece."