The New York Jets owner Woody Johnson reached out to Mike Holmgren to fill the team's head coaching vacancy last offseason.
Johnson said he and the front office were intrigued by Holmgren's championship pedigree, according to Newsday's Bob Glauber:
“We were being as creative as we could, and we were looking for talent,” Johnson said at this week’s NFL owners meetings in Charlotte, North Carolina. “Mike has a Super Bowl record, and we wanted to see what he thought about our process, how football had changed, how it had stayed the same, whether he had any advice for us, that kind of thing.