Seems like I'm always lately defending Jamal in our posts...but really? The Jets wanted to rid themselves of a young all-pro they drafted #6 in the first round?? My take was it was all financial/ugly business end of it with Adams claiming he and their GM had a verbal agreement that never materialized...heated passion led to ET leaving us...so why is it hard to imagine heated passion led to Jamal being offered in a trade. Both Adams and Grahm came to our team as a result of contract wars between the players and their frustrated GM's...we have bad luck "swooping" in on tempting bounty!
He wasn't in their plans going forward. He wanted too much money for what he could deliver. We weren't competing with any other team for him and we "Swooped in and traded for him" all the while giving up a whole lot more than we needed to.
Saleh"s Defense has a lot of similarities we had with Pete's system and Adams wasn't going to be a key player in it. If he was really a critical piece of their team as an All Pro they would have patched things up because All Pro's don't come along that often. He had the same ball skill problems with the Jets as he's had here, and he's not a very good cover Safety, so he's pretty much a one trick pony.