The New York Jets took on the Cleveland Browns on Monday Night Football with Trumaine Johnson remaining on the sideline throughout the game until the fourth quarter.

The Jets organization have attributed his removal as a starter to a lack of passion on the field. Johnson refuted that statement, speaking to the New York Daily News:

“Of course I love football,” Johnson said. “I’ve been doing it all my life. I’m passionate about it. It’s my life. It’s not a job to me. I love what I do.”

“It hasn’t worked out as well as we needed to,” Adam Gase Wednesday. “The good thing is we got a long ways to go.”

On Monday night, New York was on the wrong side of a 23-3 loss to the Browns. As the game progressed, it began to become a talking point on why Johnson was being benched at cornerback.

The veteran cornerback is in the second year of the five-year, $72.5 million deal that he signed prior to the 2018 NFL season. Therefore, it is fair to question how and why the relationship between the player and the coaching staff has gotten to this point.

In Johnson's first year with the Jets, he missed five games due to a quad injury and was suspended another by the team for tardiness. Despite missing six games, the Jets defensive back still finished the season with four interceptions, but he was inconsistent in coverage.

There is still plenty of time for Johnson to get in the good graces of the coaching staff, but this isn't a situation you'd like to see from your highest paid cornerback.