Jamal Adams wanted a long-term deal with the New York Jets, but when talks began until 2021, he was furious. What happened next was a display of angst by All-Pro security on social media to help facilitate their business demands, and by the time he publicly questioned the leadership of the CEO, head coach, and owner, the relationship was already in. He had decimated and an exchange was underway to send him to the Seattle Seahawks, where he finally had a top seller. Although it was the Seahawks who acquired Adams, it was the Dallas Cowboys who felt the brunt of their overtures, as the 24-year-old incessantly directed his affection to the team in his hometown.
However, given the already existing wedge between the GM Jets Joe Douglas and the Cowboys, each additional effort by Adams to be traded to Dallas only served to make the move less likely.
And with new reports that Adams was also trying to trade with the Cowboys behind the scenes, what was virtual quickly quickly became an almost literal impossibility. To help speed up their trade and hoping it will be for the Cowboys, Adams allegedly pressured various Dallas players privately, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, asking them to put pressure on owner / general manager Jerry Jones and the rest of the team. The team’s main office will call Douglas and make the swap happen. Douglas, of course, found out what Adams was doing under the table, like his former Jets teammates, and they were all not very happy.
It is unclear whether the unidentified Cowboys players did him the favor of pushing Jones, but he did not move, and sources confirmed to CBS Sports that a follow-up call to Dallas was not made from New York.
The team had continued to be interested in the two-time Pro Bowler dating back to October 2019, when they failed to influence the Jets to send him to North Texas, but Douglas was enraged at the Cowboys for what he feels like a leak. for his part that eventually led to disaster with Adams he was forced to clean up. That inherently meant the Cowboys were the last team he would like to send his best player to, except for the kind of offer that would take his socks off, for example, the one the Seahawks pitched across the country.
The biggest wrench in Adams’ plan to land with the Cowboys was not just what happened in October, but also (and even more so) what happened this offseason. By taking an approach that mysteriously mirrored that of security All-Pro Earl Thomas in his departure from the Seahawks (insert additional irony here), Adams consistently made it clear that Dallas was his most wanted landing site. For Douglas, with whom the Cowboys boss was already on bad terms, seeing Adams make commercial demands and then trying to dictate where he would play next was equivalent to a slap in the face. After all, the Jets never said they didn’t want to pay Adams, but would start the talks in 2021 instead of 2020.
For perspective, following the trade, Adams has now been discovered has not guaranteed a contract extension with the Seahawks – instead of agreeing to have no talks in 2020 at all. So while he was upset with the Jets for wanting to talk at the table, he’s doing exactly that with his new team before putting on his uniform.
As for the Cowboys, a team that saw the Jets turn down their October offer while responding with packages that included Tyron Smith or Zack Martin, two perennial All-Pro offensive linemen, the only way they would retake their interest. continuous. At Adams the next level was whether they felt the Jets would trade in good faith. The belief in Dallas, according to separate sources at CBS Sports, is that Douglas would raise the Cowboys’ asking price even above what they finally got from the Seahawks. It is likely that the price increase would have already been present based on what happened and did not take place in October, but Adams’ actions in trying so desperately to become a cowboy only served to further ruin the stew.
He didn’t physically run to the locker room like Earl Thomas did, but he ran into him virtually. And, like Thomas, the starting team wanted nothing to do with reaching a deal with the Cowboys. So in the end, what Adams wanted the most became the least likely he was going to get, and all because he tried too hard to get it.
