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Jets need to avoid reunion with Jamal Adams after his release from Seattle
Steven Bisig-USA TODAY Sports

Sometimes you see a player depart in free agency, get traded, or get cut and you wish it didn’t happen. You wish the player, and the organization could have found a way to make it work.

The player winds up leaving, and you always have that soft spot for them even on another team. The jersey sits in the back on the closet because you can’t bring yourself to throw it out or donate it, because maybe, just maybe, the player and the team can find their way back together again.

This is 100% NOT the case with Jamal Adams and the New York Jets.

News came down this week that the Seattle Seahawks are releasing Jamal Adams just three years after they traded two first-round picks for him and gave him a massive contract extension.

Seattle inked Adams to a four-year deal worth north of $70 million in 2021, making him the highest-paid safety in NFL history at the time. But with two years left on that deal, Adams is worth a $20.8 million cap hit.

With the Jets in need of some safety help and Adams in the unemployment line, there has been some speculation that a reunion might be in the works.

Thankfully, according to Connor Hughes of SNY, there is no interest in the Jets reuniting with the former malcontent in New York.

Tony Adams and Jarrick Bernard-Converse are the only safeties that are under contract for 2024. Three other safeties from the Jets roster are scheduled to become free agents this offseason, including Jordan Whitehead, Chuck Clark, and Ashtyn Davis.

I imagine one of the three free agents will be back in New York and the Jets will do some bargain shopping for another safety.

Adams Sounds Like a Desperate Ex

Adams has certainly been laying it on thick to the New York Jets and their fans. In January, Adams liked some social media posts talking about him returning to the Jets. Later in January, Adams started sharing old photos of himself in a Jets uniform on his Instagram story.

The Jets don’t need the headache that comes with a player who acts like a diva and plays like a scrub. Adams is nothing more than a box safety who can’t stay on the field. Adams played just 34 of a possible 67 games with Seattle.

He is a liability in coverage, and I wouldn’t trust him to cover Joe Flacco on a swing route let alone some of the top tight ends and running backs in the game today.

He whined and complained his way out of New York all while touting how good he was and how much of a leader he was. Since then, he got in a scuffle with a neurotrauma consultant who was examining him for a concussion, which he had. He acted like the petulant child who wouldn’t grow up and was fined $50,000 for the altercation.

Then he had the audacity to zoom in on a photo of Conor Hughes’ wife on social media and caption it with the word “yikes”. He later deleted the post, but when he was asked about it, he smugly responded, "when others go low, I go lower…" Adams told reporters. "You can sit there and have regret. But I don’t live that way in my life."

“When others go low”? You mean when Hughes highlighted you getting beat bad and your response was to attack the mother of the man’s children?

Unfortunately for Adams, his play on the field (the little time he actually spends on the field that is) has become as ugly as his personality. The Jets need to steer clear of Adams and let him go be the “leader” he wants to be elsewhere.

This article first appeared on A to Z Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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