Well, that might be all she wrote for possibly the best-overall defensive player the Buffalo Bills were set to face in the AFC East in 2020.
Jets star safety Jamal Adams has had his name in trade speculation and headlines for about a year now. Because of that, Adams hasn’t been happy with Gang Green, and he also is demanding a new deal only three years into his rookie contract.
In a recent interview, the Jets defensive back might’ve just put the nail in the coffin in regard to his tenure with the team that made him the No. 6 overall pick at the 2017 NFL Draft.
Adams, a former teammate of Bills cornerback Tre’Davious White while in college at LSU, was very candid about his relationships with New York head coach Adam Gase and general manager Joe Douglas recently.
On Gase, Adams’ concerns sounded a lot like the problems the coach had while he was the bench boss of the Miami Dolphins. Gase was criticized for play-calling, but also for alienating players. Particularly star players like Adams.
“I don’t feel like he’s the right leader for this organization to reach the Promised Land,” Adams the New York Daily News via Jets Wire. “As a leader, what really bothers me is that he doesn’t have a relationship with everybody in the building.”
“At the end of the day, [Gase] doesn’t address the team,” Adams added. “If there’s a problem in the locker room, he lets another coach address the team. If we’re playing [expletive] and we’re losing, he doesn’t address the entire team as a group at halftime. He’ll walk out of the locker room and let another coach handle it.”
And as mentioned, his anger wasn’t just at Gase. Douglas got plenty, too. Most of that, per Adams, is due to the way the Jets handled his contract situation. The safety says the team just… basically ignored him.
“If they would have just simply said, ‘You know what, Jamal — we’re not going to look to pay you this year, we want to keep adding players — I would have respected that more,” Adams said. “I would say, ‘You know what? I respect it. As a man, I get it. I understand it’s a business.’ But for them to tell me that they’re going to pay me and then not send over a proposal after they said that’s what they were going to, that’s where we go wrong. And then for you to ignore me, that’s why I have a problem.”
Adams has previously requested a trade away from the Jets to one of eight teams. Will that happen? It seems like a good bet now. Adams, 24, says he plans to report to training camp, but that doesn’t change his desire to be traded.
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