FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Woody Johnson has presided over what passes for one of the most successful eras in New York Jets history.

But the team’s owner knows merely getting close to the Super Bowl a few times will not suffice for a franchise — and a fan base — that is 46 years removed from Joe Namath running off the field with his right pointer finger raised high in the air after the Super Bowl III upset of the Baltimore Colts.

“I’ve been at it 15 years,” Johnson said. “Hopefully, I make better decisions because you have to win those games and you’ve got to get to the next level.”

In general manager Mike Maccagnan and head coach Todd Bowles, Johnson believes he has the people in place who can turn the Jets into an elite team. Maccagnan and Bowles, who were hired a day apart last week, were officially introduced Wednesday morning during a press conference inside a packed auditorium at the Jets’ training complex.

“These gentlemen sitting to my left are, in my estimation, the people to do it,” Johnson said. “I have a lot of confidence in them based on the short time I’ve known them. I’m very, very encouraged that they can put it together.”

With the Jets coming off a 4-12 season in which they were often inept on both sides of the ball, the final verdict on Bowles and Maccagnan is very likely years away. But the duo at least won Wednesday’s press conference — not with bluster, a la recently fired head coach Rex Ryan six years ago, but with restraint and a commitment to working together off the field to build a more cohesive team on it.

Maccagnan said 15 seasons in the college scouting department with the Houston Texans taught him the importance of a head coach and general manager working in concert. The Texans have had just two general managers and three full-time head coaches since joining the league in 2002.

“The thing I took from that organization was the realization that the head coach and general manager always had to be a team,” Maccagnan said. “You’re not always going to see things the same way, but always working through that process as a team and kind of go forward (making) decisions in the best interests of the Texans.”

Johnson, who bought the Jets in 2000, is now on his fifth general manager and fifth head coach. None of his head coach-general manager combinations were as haphazardly thrown together as Ryan and John Idzik, who, on Johnson’s orders, inherited Ryan after the 2012 season but was fired along with Ryan on Dec. 29.

Both Ryan and Idzik talked a good game about their working relationship, but Johnson said Dec. 29 that he made a mistake in forcing Idzik to work with Ryan and there was little chemistry between the two.

The connection Wednesday seemed authentic between Maccagnan and Bowles, a pair of Jersey guys whose paths have crossed since the late 1970s when Maccagnan watched Bowles’ high school team during summer scrimmages. As an intern with the Washington Redskins in 1990, Maccagnan picked up Bowles, a Redskins safety, at the airport at the start of training camp.

“You can’t go into a job not feeling comfortable with the people you’re working with,” Bowles said. “I’ve been around front offices where they are in disarray and I see how those things work and you definitely don’t want that kind of job.”

The overmatched Idzik, who spoke in circles about his rebuilding plan and kept insisting his vision would work because it worked during his days as a salary-cap guru with the Seattle Seahawks, did Ryan no favors in player procurement during the last two seasons.

But Ryan sealed his own fate by being hands off to the point of ignorance when it came to the offenses that kept the Jets from becoming a Super Bowl-caliber team during his first few seasons at the helm.

Bowles, like Ryan, is a defensive coordinator, but Johnson on Wednesday touted Bowles’ ability to take a “30,000-foot view” of the Jets and their offense, defense and special teams — a clear dig at Ryan’s single-mindedness,

“I’m the head coach of the football team,” Bowles said. “We have an offensive coordinator (Chan Gailey) that’s going to call the plays and run the show. But we have to do what (is necessary) for our team to play complimentary football. And it’s my job to make sure we do that.”

The job of finally getting the Jets over the hump has just begun. Maccagnan has $40 million in cap space thanks to Idzik’s frugalness as well as the sixth pick in the 2015 draft. He said he believes the draft is where a team can build long-term success and that it was too early to project if the Jets might trade up or down in the coming months.

The Jets’ biggest problem is quarterback, where Geno Smith has been a turnover machine in his first two seasons. Neither Maccagnan nor Bowles would commit about Smith on Wednesday and Bowles twice managed to damn Smith with faint praise, first by noting he was a good college quarterback and then by saying Gailey has proved he can ” … get the most out of the least players.”

How Maccagnan and Bowles fare will go a long way toward determining the legacy of Johnson as Jets owner. The first two general managers he hired, Terry Bradway and Mike Tannenbaum, were holdovers from the Bill Parcells regime who constructed teams that reached the playoffs six times between 2001 and 2010 and reached back-to-back AFC Championship Games in 2009 and 2010. The Jets reached just two AFC Championship Games in the first 39 seasons after the AFL/NFL merger.

But Johnson badly bungled the Idzik-Ryan pairing. Was it just a mistake by an often-impulsive owner who has figured out the error of his ways, or a sign of things to come?

“It’s always a learning experience, whenever you go through the process,” Johnson said. “It’s very important to me. Hopefully, I’ve gotten better. I hope I’ve gotten better.”