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WATCH: Jamal Adams tells fan he’s ‘trying’ to get traded to Cowboys

In a video shot by a fan on Sunday, Jamal Adams admits that he’s trying to be traded to his hometown Dallas Cowboys.

Jamal Adams has made it abundantly clear that he wants out of New York. The Jets’ aggrieved All-Pro safety has a list of eight destinations he would accept a trade to, which includes his hometown Dallas Cowboys.

Now, thanks to a cellphone video shot in the Dallas area on Sunday afternoon, it appears a homecoming is Adams’ preferred outcome. In the video below, a fan asks Adams, “You coming to Dallas?”

“I’m trying, bro,” Adams said in response.

According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Dallas is among the eight teams that Adams would welcome a trade to. While there may be mutual interest in a homecoming, the Cowboys already tried to trade for Adams at last season’s trade deadline. The price was way too high, according to NFL Network’s Jane Slater.

Adams’ stance has gone back and forth on whether he wants to remain in green and white, but the Jets’ position has remained unchanged. Joe Douglas has said he wants to make Adams a “Jet for life,” and New York still appears inclined to do that. The Jets have not granted Adams or his representation permission to seek a trade and it doesn’t appear that they will, per ESPN’s Rich Cimini.

The Cowboys have enough cap room to add Adams’s current remaining salary, even with Dak Prescott planning to sign his $31.4 million franchise tag tender on Monday, per Schefter. The Cowboys have until July 15 to work out a contract extension with Prescott, which could free up more cap space for the acquisition of Adams. It’s been reported that Adams wouldn’t request an immediate extension if he’s traded to a certain team, though. Dallas could wait until 2021 when it has more cap flexibility to extend Adams. Of course, this all depends on the Jets changing their .tune

Right now, the Cowboys have the best odds to acquire Adams at +250, according to SportsLine. While it makes complete sense that Adams would like to return home and play for Dallas, it won’t mean much unless the Jets change course and Jerry Jones gives Douglas an offer he can’t refuse.

Expect Jamal Adams’ stalemate with Jets to carry on for a while

Jets Wire breaks down why Jamal Adams’ contract stalemate with the Jets is destined to last for a while.

Extending Jamal Adams’s contract has always been part of the plan for Joe Douglas and the Jets. They just didn’t want to do it until they absolutely had to.

New York hoped that Adams would understand this thought process. It hoped that Adams would be content playing out the fourth year of his rookie deal before he started seriously eying a new, lucrative contract appropriate for a player of his caliber. Unfortunately for the Jets, patience does not seem to be in the All-Pro safety’s vocabulary.

Fed up with not having a new contract, Adams requested a trade from the Jets on Thursday. Just don’t expect one to happen anytime soon.

If Douglas proved anything in his first year on the job as Jets general manager, it’s that he is not afraid to play hardball when he has to. In free agency, he stuck to his guns during contract negotiations, not budging off what he believed a player’s worth to be. Maintaining his ground netted the Jets some quality players like Pierre Desir and Breshad Perriman at relatively cheap prices. Douglas shelled out money when he had to but drove a hard bargain in all of his negotiations and refused to blink — a trait that some of New York’s recent failed front office executives lacked.

Contract negotiations with Adams have been far from the typical negotiation process with a star player. Adams has been openly campaigning for a new deal on social media since the beginning of the offseason despite having two years left on his rookie contract. He even resorted to calling out Douglas and New York’s front office, pegging it as a group that is “all talk no action.”

Douglas is actually the opposite of that quote. He has maintained that he wants to make Adams a “Jet for Life”, but would rather wait to extend him since New York has him under control through at least 2021. Now that Adams wants out of the Big Apple, Douglas is not going to bend over backward to give the disgruntled star what he wants.

The Jets have all of the leverage here. Remember, Adams still has time left on his initial $22.3 million contract with New York. He does not have to be traded right away. In reality, Douglas could hang onto Adams as long as he wants in an effort to salvage the situation and keep the All-Pro safety with the team if he actually wants to be there.

Adams can either play and continue to boost his value while the two sides work out a new deal, or he can sit on the sideline and continue to kick and scream until the Jets decide they have had enough of his act and trade him elsewhere — which seems to be what he is going for at this point.

Whatever Adams’ master plan is, don’t expect it to work. Douglas has already proven he is more than capable of holding his ground. He won’t have a problem doing it again.

Jamal Adams as much to blame as anyone for contract fiasco

Jets Wire breaks down why Jamal Adams needs to take a look in the mirror and realize his role in his contract fiasco with New York.

Typically when a team and a player cannot come to terms on a new contract, it is the team that is to blame.

Front offices are known for doing everything in their power to save money when they can. Whether it be not meeting a player’s salary demands or not hitting the spot with certain incentives, executives are usually the reason why negotiations go off the rails and a player winds up requesting a trade.

That is not the case with Jamal Adams and the Jets.

Ever since Joe Douglas did his job by picking up the phone and listening when the Dallas Cowboys called about Adams at the trade deadline in October, New York’s All-Pro safety has been kicking and screaming despite lacking any real leverage. He claimed Douglas went behind his back by “shopping” him when, in reality, all Douglas did was what he is supposed to do as an NFL general manager — listen to trade offers.

“My message was clear, that Jamal was an absolute stud and we’re not interested in moving him,” Douglas said at the time. “Teams continued to call. I was always taught where I’m from, if a team calls, you listen to what they have to say.”

Adams eventually got over what he thought was a backstabbing, but the fact remained that he wanted a contract extension and he wanted it as soon as possible — even though he had two years left on his rookie deal and the Jets had team control with the ability to franchise tag him beyond his initial contract with the team. Keep in mind, future salary cap numbers are uncertain due to the ongoing pandemic.

Once the regular season ended, Adams returned to his petulant ways, openly campaigning for a new contract on social media. After saying on Instagram the Jets were “A lot of talk no action” in negotiations last week, things ultimately hit the fan on Thursday, with Adams requesting a trade out of the Big Apple.

Could the Jets have handled their negotiations with Adams a bit better? Probably. If Douglas had no intention of extending Adams right away, he shouldn’t have suggested that he was following the NFL draft.

With that being said, there is no doubt that Adams and his camp are as much to blame for the fiasco currently engulfing One Jets Drive as anyone else.

After Adams demanded his trade, reports surfaced that there were certain teams he was willing to play for without a contract extension right away. If Adams actually wanted to stay in New York and play for the Jets as he has said he wants to do time and again, why is it that he would be content waiting for a contract extension from another team, but not the Jets?

It makes perfect sense as to why the Jets were in no rush to extend him. What is the point in breaking the bank for a player you have multiple years of team control over? Patrick Mahomes has yet to be extended and he won the Chiefs a Super Bowl in 2019. Aaron Donald and Khalil Mack — two NFL Defensive Players of the Year — also did not receive extensions after the third year of their rookie deals. None of those players took to Twitter or Instagram to throw tantrums because they weren’t being extended at that time.

Adams has staked his claim as a leader in the locker room ever since joining the Jets in 2017. What kind of a leader refuses to go to battle with his teammates until his pockets are full, but is content leaving for an entirely new organization that might not even pay him right away? One who is “all talk no action.”

It’s okay for a player to want what he’s worth, but the message gets muddied when you’re willing to make concessions for a hypothetical team you don’t even play for.

Maybe Adams doesn’t want to be in New York anymore. Maybe he wants to finally play for a winner instead of a team that falls short every year. If that’s the case, then it is what it is and there is not much the Jets can do about it. However, if this is about money and having an issue with the way New York has approached negotiations, Adams and his representation need to take a long look in the mirror and realize their role in all of this.

They’re just as much to blame as anyone for this circus.

‘A lot of talk no action’: Jamal Adams says Jets haven’t made extension offer

New York Jets safety Jamal Adams is not pleased with the way his contract negotiations with the Jets are going.

Jamal Adams is not pleased with the way his contract negotiations with the Jets are going.

Reports surfaced on Friday that the Browns and star defensive end Myles Garrett are discussing a mega-deal. Adams took to Instagram to congratulate Garrett and ripped New York’s front office in the process, saying the organization is “A lot of talk, no action.”

“I can’t even get my first proposal that they said they would send over in January…,” Adams said in an Instagram comment. “I was called ‘selfish’ tho! Lol A lot of talk no action #StayWoke.”

Adams and the Jets have long been at odds over his contract. New York’s All-Pro safety is entering the fourth year of his four-year, $22.2 million rookie contract and wants to get paid before his rookie deal expires. More specifically, all signs point to Adams wanting to get paid this offseason. Jets general manager Joe Douglas and CEO Christopher Johnson have maintained that they want to keep Adams in the Big Apple and make him a “Jet for life.” However, it appears the organization is not in a rush to do anything right away.

The Jets want to wait to extend Adams, largely because they hold all of the leverage in contract negotiations. He is signed through 2021 and New York could use the franchise tag on him once, or even twice. With that kind of financial control working in their favor, it makes sense that the Jets want to save some money and wait as long as possible to extend the LSU product.

Could a training camp holdout be in store once the Jets are able to return to their facilities? Adams refused to participate in New York’s virtual offseason program and it doesn’t look like contract negotiations between the two sides are going anywhere anytime soon. That could lead Adams to sit out until he gets a new deal or is traded, which does not seem likely at this time.

Either way, it looks like Adams is out of patience with the Jets’ front office. Until the two sides are able to come to some sort of agreement, don’t expect Gang Green’s most vocal player to pipe down about his contract until he gets his way.

Report: Jets have no intention of trading Jamal Adams

According to SNY’s Ralph Vacchiano, the Jets have no intention of trading All-Pro safety Jamal Adams anytime soon.

Contract negotiations between the Jets and Jamal Adams may not be going as smoothly as both sides would like, but that does not mean New York is preparing to ship away its All-Pro safety.

According to SNY’s Ralph Vacchiano, the Jets have no intention of trading Adams and are committed to making a long-term extension with him happen. The expectation is that New York and Adams will eventually come to terms on a contract that will make him a “Jet for life.”

Adams is entering the fourth year of his four-year, $22.2 million rookie contract and wants to get paid before his rookie deal expires. More specifically, all signs point to Adams wanting to get paid this offseason. Jets general manager Joe Douglas and CEO Christopher Johnson have maintained that they want to keep Adams in the Big Apple, but it appears the organization is not in a rush to do anything right away.

Douglas reached out to Adams’ representation shorty after the 2020 NFL Draft to open initial discussions regarding a contract extension. However, the Jets’ preference is to wait before extending Adams long-term.

New York’s reluctance to aggressively pursue an extension with Adams has led to rampant trade rumors throughout the last couple of weeks. According to Vacchiano, the Jets have not had any meaningful trade discussions involving Adams since October’s trade deadline, when the Cowboys and numerous other teams inquired about the 24-year-old’s availability.

Adams wants a contract that would make him the highest-paid safety in football. That means any deal would have to surpass Eddie Jackson’s $14.6 million per year salary. Timing, not money, is the reason why the two sides currently find themselves at an impasse.

The Jets want to wait to extend Adams, largely because they hold all of the leverage in contract negotiations. He is signed through 2021 and New York could use the franchise tag on him once, or even twice. With that kind of financial control working in their favor, it makes sense that the Jets want to save some money and wait as long as possible to extend the LSU product.

Adams is currently refusing to participate in the Jets’ virtual offseason program. Could a training camp holdout be in store once New York returns to its facilities? That remains to be seen. It doesn’t look like contract negotiations between the Jets and Adams are going anywhere anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean he won’t be donning the Green and White next season.

In other words, don’t expect Adams to be anywhere but at One Jets Drive in 2020.