DARE Adams inexcusable
leads. You don’t embarrass that kind of player that way.
Yanking him for committing a couple penalties? What kind of message is that to your team?
I respect the notion of holding players accountable, but it’s not as if Adams was an out-ofcontrol wild man. He made a couple mistakes. He can selfcorrect. He doesn’t need to be put in timeout and undressed on national television.
He’s done too much on and off the field to receive that sort of bush-league treatment.
“Obviously I don’t know why or what was the reason,” Adams said. “I made a penalty and they took me out. I’m not upset… Well, I am upset. I wanted to finish the game, but I obviously didn’t finish the game. But it is what it is. I made a bonehead mistake. I anticipated wrong… One thing about me, I’m always going to finish the game regardless. It doesn’t matter what’s going on. I’m out there to hunt. And that’s just how I am.”
Adams and Williams have had a solid relationship. They’re competitive people driven to succeed, but the defensive coordinator went too far. Sure, he’s the head coach of the defense, so he can do whatever he damn well pleases, but this wasn’t the right decision.
Adams took the high road Tuesday, but you know he’s unhappy with so much that transpired in the 20-point blowout that dropped the Jets to 0-2. Adams told the Daily News last year that he wanted to retire as a
It’s a bad time to be a quarterback in the big city. Jets backup quarterback Trevor Siemian is out for the season after getting Jet, but nothing is guaranteed.
Although Adams said that he believes he can win with the Jets because “it’s a special place,” know this: You’d be naive to think that he won’t seriously pursue his options in free agency in a couple years if this sideways organization doesn’t get its act together. And Jerry Jones will be at the front of the line of suitors.
Williams told Adams during their first conversation months ago that he had coached players better than him in his four-decade long career. It was a motivational tactic for the young player. It was the right tactic too. However, this move was not. Williams said he makes sure the team leaders are on board with his plan everywhere he goes, because other players will follow. It’s a wise approach. He got Adams to buy in, so why pull these shenanigans two weeks into the season?
Is it power, control or just plain ego?
Whatever the reason, shouldn’t happen again.
The Jets need about 50 more players and people like Jamal Adams. If they aren’t careful, they might lose the only one they have. it hurt in his first game starting for the Jets on Monday night, coach Adam Gase revealed on Tuesday.
Siemian — who was filling in for starter Sam Darnold who is out with Mono — left Monday night’s blowout loss to the Browns with an ankle injury in the second quarter. Up to that point, Siemian had been 3-for-6 for just 3 yards.
The injury is not a broken bone, but torn ligaments. He will undergo surgery once the swelling subsides.
Luke Falk, who the Jets signed off the practice squad after the Darnold illness, finished the game, a 23-3 loss. He will be the starter until Darnold is healthy.
THE UNDERDOGS
Are the Jets and Dolphins really this terrible? It’s a pretty safe bet.
The two struggling AFC East teams head into Week 3 as historic underdogs.
Gang Green — now without both starting QB Sam Darnold (Mono) and backup Trevor Siemian (torn ankle ligaments) — is a 22.5-point underdog (per SportsBetting.ag) going up to Foxborough on Sunday to battle Bill Belichick and the mighty Patriots.
The tanking Dolphins — outscored 102-10 through two games — head to Dallas as 21.5-point underdogs to the Cowboys.
“It’s somewhat of a perfect storm,” Adam Burns, head linesman at the sportsbook, said. “We know what the Dolphins are doing so that was expected, but this is a different Jets spread if Darnold or even Siemian were on the field. Compounding the issue is that we have the two most publicly-bet teams in the NFL in these matchups.”
It is the first time since the strike season of 1987 (Week 5) that the NFL has had two teams favored by more than 20 points in the same week. In that season — with lots of replacement players on the field — the Cowboys were a 21.5-point favorite against the Eagles while the 49ers were 23point favorites over the Falcons. Neither covered.
Burns speculated that Jets would have been a 1317 point underdog against the Pats had either Darnold or Siemian been in the lineup. Instead thirdstringer Luke Falk (who went 20-for-25 for 198 yards in the Jets’ 23-3 loss to the Brown on Monday Night Football) will make his first career start at Gillette Stadium.
But before throwing money at the Patriots and Cowboys, remember that in the 11 previous games in NFL history with a point spread of 20 points or more that favorites are just 2-9.