If there was any doubt...(CEO comments)

[MDL_JET]

We're taking a QB! No more crazy Barkley talk.

 

I am 100 percent sure having talked with Mike (Maccagnan) and with (VP of Player Personnel) Brian Heimerdinger and with coaches that we are going to do something special with that No. 3 spot."

Johnson has hit all the right notes since taking over for brother Woody, who became the new UK Ambassador for the Trump Administration last year. "Speaking as a fan, which I am first, I think this is a really exciting time in the history of the Jets," Christopher Johnson said.

It's a seminal moment in the history of the Johnson & Johnson ownership regime. The Jets, frankly, must get this quarterback decision right to have any hope of sustainable success in the foreseeable future.

"I heard that a lot out in the parking lot before the games," Johnson said of fans' imploring him to find a quarterback. "That's a big concern. A huge concern. And rightfully so. It's been a while since they could go, 'Wow! We got the quarterback.'"

Johnson gushed about the Jets' possibilities for the third pick, though he declined to say if they might move up one more spot, in a deal with the Giants.

Johnson again emphasized that he wants to build a sustainable winner, not a flash-in-the-pan team, so he isn't putting a playoff mandate on Maccagnan and coach Todd Bowles for 2018. Johnson had said this earlier in the offseason, as well. Still, Maccagnan and Bowles can ill afford to win five games for the third straight year. 

Johnson expressed profound disappointment in the Jets' recent stretch of player arrests (Robby Anderson, Dylan Donahue, Rashard Robinson). But he remains hopeful that the Jets can help these guys keep their lives in order. Johnson did say, however, that his patience is "not infinite" with this sort of nonsense. 

Jets CEO Christopher Johnson said he was "absolutely" disappointed to miss out on Kirk Cousins. "But we moved very quickly to Plan B," he said. "It's almost a shame to call it Plan B because it's shaping up as something pretty magnificent." He also said "it doesn't hurt at all" that they can spend the money earmarked for Cousins on other players. (But not Ndamukong Suh.) Johnson would not say the plan is to pick a QB at 3. "I don't know why," he said, "but I just can't say."