Jets need a lot more than just potential Davante Adams trade

At some point over the next few weeks, the Las Vegas Raiders are going to trade wide receiver Davante Adams, and the New York Jets figure to be one of the teams in heaviest pursuit of him.

It would be a chance to reunite Adams and his former quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, and it would give the Jets the viable No. 2 target in the passing game that they desperately need.

But as Sunday's 23-17 loss to the Minnesota Vikings showed, the potential addition of Adams might not be enough to fix what is currently ailing the Jets.

They have a lot of problem on offense. 

For one, they have no running game to speak of. 

After Sunday's game, they are averaging just under 75 yards per game on the ground, while running back Breece Hall has been one of the league's biggest individual disappointments in terms of his production. The blocking is not there, the game plan is not there, the play-calling is not there and it is all just a mess.

Even worse, Rodgers has at times looked like the 40-year-old quarterback coming off an Achilles injury that he is. His mobility is not what it used to be, and he made some dreadful passes on Sunday that either ended drives or kept them from gaining any steam. 

He also suffered — in his words — a low ankle sprain in Sunday's game, which could only add to the limitations on him as a player. 

Everything just looks out of sync and like it is an enormous challenge, and it is hard to see it changing anytime soon.

Rodgers and Adams might have some great chemistry going back to their days in Green Bay, but neither player is the same that they were five or six years ago. 

It is starting to look like the harsh reality for the Jets is that they simply built a badly flawed team around a declining quarterback that has been nothing but a sideshow distraction from the moment he arrived. Adams is not going to fix all of that.