Sports Business Journal reported that the Jets offered buyouts to 170 of its 250 employees.
One prominent NFL website, where many people go for their narratives, speculated that the buyouts were related to the myriad media leaks the last couple of years.
That seems like a reach.
Do you think a buyout initiative of this magnitude is about media leaks? C’mon now.
How many of the 170 people offered buyouts, in myriad different departments, had anything to do with media leaks? A smidgen, and that might be overstating it.
And some of the leakers in The Athletic’s stories that made the Jets look bad probably aren’t even working at 1 Jets Drive anymore, having left before these buyouts were offered.
If you put out a list with the reasons for these buyouts, media leaks might be on the list, but not high up.
What the Jets are doing is similar to what you have seen companies and governments do in recent years – get leaner, streamline the operation, reallocate resources, modernize and become more efficient.
As for the somehow being culture-related, I will get into that in a later blog.
But this idea that media leaks were a driving force in the buyouts, that is an oversimplification.
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