When it comes to excuses from the front office, Jets fans have heard it all. The beleaguered New York franchise continues the longest playoff drought of all major-league men’s sports teams, a situation that has been blamed on everything management And to teach To player And locker room culture. Fans have also heard all the promises of foolish plans sold as salvation from the team’s short-term Sam Darnold Rebuild to the notorious Aaron Rodgers gambles.
Now, the organization has hatched a new plan to end its historic drought: going all-in on AI.
new reporting From Sports Business Journal Turns out the Jets front office is making a concerted effort to adopt AI in its daily operations. According to Iavo Fusillo, the Jets’ recently appointed chief data and analytics officer, about 91 percent of front office employees are now daily users of Microsoft CoPilot.
“I call that level one or horizon one, which is adoption,” Fusillo explains. sports business. “Have we had a huge business benefit from that level one? Not really. But have we changed the culture of the entire front office? Yes. To think AI-first.”
During department-level AI workshops led by digital consulting firm Next League, sports business The staff reportedly “generated” 60 ideas about where to deploy AI throughout the front office, and “probably doubled that” for the football side.
Of course, the real question is whether any of those ideas were any good. write big, this remains a mystery How much the adoption of AI could change the frustrating reality of life in the Jets organization.
The AI initiative and Fusillo’s appointment are the brainchild of Jets owner Woody Johnson, the great-grandson of Robert Wood Johnson, founder of the Johnson & Johnson name. often described as easily influenced Agreeing Toadies and public sentiment, the Jets mogul clearly has no idea that the notorious flattery technique will probably tell him exactly what he wants to hear. However, Johnson’s long-term fan base lacks that special quality.
“The Jets eventually admitted they needed to outsource intelligence because there was no one in the building,” A Redditor Took a pinch. “We’re going 0-17,” A the fan wrote Ex-ex-on-twitter.
“Haha, I asked ChatGPT to ‘make the Jets a Superbowl contender’ and that in essence meant taking out any and everyone from the Jets,” one New York Giants fans Shared in a Reddit post. “Some of its top recommendations were to completely change the coaching staff and somehow get a top 10 offense by year two.”
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