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Following the New York Giants’ upset victory over the Seattle Seahawks on the road in Week 13, former New York Jets safety Jamal Adams, who recorded 11 tackles and one sack in the game, was a bit perturbed.
Rather than offering the Giants any credit, which both head coach Pete Carroll and quarterback Russell Wilson did, Adams just remarked about how sour he was.
“It stings, it stings. I’m [expletive] off,” Adams said. “Coming from where I came from, a New York team, it just hits a little bit different for me.”
Adams did acknowledge that Joe Judge’s Giants were more confident than their Ben McAdoo or Pat Shurmur counterparts, but said Seattle lost the game more than New York won it.
“When you lose, you take it as a lesson. There’s always something you could’ve done right to make sure we didn’t have this outcome, individually and as a team,” Adams said. “At the end of the day we didn’t get it done. We didn’t have enough focus. We take that upon us as players, as a staff, as a group, as a team.”
With a few days to sit on it, Adams’ tune ha softened a bit and he’s come around to the fact that the Giants, despite their 1-7 start to the season, are a good football team.
“A lot of respect to the Giants organization,” Adams said on the ’17 Weeks Podcast.’ “It’s always been like that for me, obviously, due to my father [former running back George Adams, who played for the Giants in the 1980s].
“Coach Judge, I didn’t get to holler at him after the game but I got a lot of respect for him and what he’s doing over there. They’ve always had talent. They just needed the right coaching staff to come in there and get their identity back. And they got that, man.
“So I got a lot of respect for how they play, how hard they play and how physical they play. So, like I said, I got a lot of respect for that organization over there. Always have.”
Respect is earned and the Giants have most certainly been doing that under Joe Judge.
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