Woody Johnson Asserts Reports Of Him & Coach Robert Saleh Having Feud Are False

Owner of the New York Jets Woody Johnson categorically denied a story claiming that he had a “very heated conversation” with head coach Robert Saleh during this week’s NFL meetings.

Woody Johnson Asserts Reports Of Him & Coach Robert Saleh Having Feud Are False

During Tuesday’s episode of “Around the NFL,” NFL Network anchor Colleen Wolfe said that she had received information from a “very reliable source” that Johnson and Saleh got into a fight on Sunday night while attending a party in Orlando, Florida. According to Wolfe, the talk became “a little awkward.”

This week’s NFL owners meetings are being held in Orlando, which is also the location of the alleged argument.

“All this nonsense about a heated argument between Coach Saleh and me at the League Meeting is absolutely false. It is yet another irresponsible report from NFL Network. Please disregard,” Johnson posted Thursday on X.

When NFL Network anchor Colleen Wolfe disclosed the purported contact on the “Around the NFL” show on Wednesday, the tale began to gain traction.

Wolfe stated on the “Around the NFL” podcast that she learned about the purported Johnson-Saleh fight from a “very reliable source.” She first claimed that incident happened during the NFL’s Monday night cocktail party at the league meetings’ host hotel, the Ritz-Carlton.

She clarified that it was Sunday night, not Monday, later in the show. Apart from stating that it became “a little awkward,” she gave no further information.

Wolfe expressed regret to the Jets in a statement made public on Thursday “for the unnecessary distraction.

“I will say, from a very reliable source at the owners meetings, there was a very heated conversation between Woody and Robert Saleh, to the point where it was a little awkward,” Wolfe said Tuesday.

Wolfe went on to downplay the conversation, refraining from labeling it an “argument,” when pressed about the matter by podcast co-hosts Dan Hanzus and Marc Sessler, even while trying to stoke speculation about it.

“What were they arguing about?” she asked. “At the owners meetings, at the party last night. … Who knows? Could’ve been about anything. Maybe they were disagreeing on how they like their steak cooked. Doubt that, though. … I’m not saying it’s an argument. (It was) a lively conversation they were having. It was two of them.”

How much does the coach of the Jets make a year?

To becoming head coach of the New York Jets, Robert Salah inked a five-year contract. With the Jets, he makes between $2 million and $5 million in basic pay.

Who owns the Jets franchise?

When Johnson paid $635 million to acquire the team, he was unknown to the other NFL owners.

Who is Woody Johnson’s wife?

Johnson wed Suzanne Ircha in 2009; she was a managing director of Sandler O’Neill & Partners’ equity division and a former actress. They are parents of two kids.

 

 

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