Jets' biggest problem remains owner Woody Johnson

New York Jets owner Woody Johnson made some headlines on Tuesday by offering some support for head coach Aaron Glenn, while also throwing his team's quarterback and big free-agent acquisition — Justin Fields — under the team bus for their 0-7 start. 

It is the type of thing you do not normally hear from an owner, especially just seven games into a season. 

Make no mistake, the Jets' quarterback situation is a big problem. 

The Glenn experiment might also be a problem given how little progress the team has made from Week 1 to Week 7, and how Tyrod Taylor did not really improve things when he entered the game on Sunday. It feels like it should be a one-and-done situation here with the head coach. 

The Jets have a lot of problems, again, but the biggest problem of them all is the man that keeps pointing the finger at everybody else in the organization. It's Johnson. He's the problem, no matter how much he tries to keep passing the buck on to other people. 

Johnson remains common denominator through years of failure

There is a reason bad teams that remain bad are always in that position. The reason usually resides at the top of the organization. The Jets are exhibit A for how this happens.

Johnson originally purchased the Jets in January 2000, and has owned the team ever since. In the 25 years since his purchase, the Jets have had just nine winning seasons, six playoff appearances, five 10-win seasons, one division title, no seasons with more than 11 wins (a mark they reached one time) and zero Super Bowl appearances. 

The furthest they reached was back-to-back AFC Championship games in 2009 and 2010 under former head coach Rex Ryan and quarterback Mark Sanchez.

That is not a lot of success. If you look at it from a collective, big-picture viewpoint, the Jets' 174 regular season wins under Johnson's ownership are 26th out of 32 NFL teams. Their six playoff wins are 19th, while their 12 total playoff games are only 24th.

They have not actually appeared in a playoff game since their most recent AFC Championship appearance in 2010. A 15-year playoff drought in the NFL is almost unthinkable given the parity of the league and how the system is set up to help teams rapidly improve. 

The Jets have not been able to figure it out. 

Under Johnson's ownership the Jets have had nine different head coaches, including three that stuck around for three years or less. They have had seven different general managers, 26 different quarterbacks start at least one game and 10 different quarterbacks start at least 10 games. That includes four different quarterbacks taken in the first round (Chad Pennington, Sanchez, Sam Darnold and Zach Wilson) and three more taken in the second round (Christian Hackenberg, Geno Smith and Kellen Clemens).

Other than some brief flashes of success with Pennington and Sanchez, all of them failed in New York. Some of them (Smith and Darnold) went on to find more success after leaving the Jets. 

The point here is that the scapegoats keep changing. 

It's always a different head coach that is the problem, a different general manager, a different quarterback. All of the main figures in the organization keep changing and taking the fall for the team's failures except for the one person at the top that is ultimately responsible for all putting all of them into place. 

Johnson has not only proven he is incapable of picking the right people to lead his organization, he has also simply created a losing culture and losing environment. 

Losing breeds losers, and that is all the Jets have known under Johnson's watch. No head-coaching change, general manager change or quarterback change is going to fix that as long as he is making the decisions and setting the tone.

They can get rid of Justin Fields, they can fire Aaron Glenn and they can draft another quarterback at the top of the draft. They can do all the same things they have kept doing for 25 years and counting. And they can also watch the results all stay the same. They can also watch all of those people leave for a better organization and find more success.