Adams’ Friday night movie club

Something has to change, and Jets safety Jamal Adams is taking it upon himself to make sure the defense snaps this unwanted trend of underwhelming performances. Adams made it clear he wasn’t criticizing the coaching staff or ripping the defense’s work habits. Still, after three losses in which the defense was exposed, the big-talking safety believes he has a solution to fix what ails the unit: Playersonly meetings on Fridays for the defense to fix communication issues he’s noticed by watching extra film. “We just need to get better,” Adams said Thursday. “I’m taking it upon myself to set everybody up as a defense so we communicate better and be better on Sundays. It’s just time. It’s time to do a little bit extra.” Adams plans to lead the film study. He insisted this wasn’t a reaction to Sunday’s poor performance, when the Jaguars rolled up 503 yards of total offense and the Jets made Blake Bortles look like Aaron Rodgers, enabling him to complete 29-of-38 passes for 388 yards and two touchdowns. It’s something, he said, he’s thought about for a few weeks now.

Adams, who already has found himself in hot water this season after saying the Jets were unprepared for thenBrowns backup quarterback Baker Mayfield in Week 3, didn’t receive any pushback from members of the defense. The reaction was simply: “Let’s do it.”

When asked if he believes the defense doesn’t communicate well enough, Adams said, “It can always be better. We just want to get better, man, and make sure we’re on the same page at all times.”

Adams initially revealed the plan in his weekly radio spot Tuesday on WFAN as “just to get on the same page, man, so we can go out there and fly around and win ballgames.”

A day later, Jets coach Todd Bowles suggested it wasn’t anything new, that the Jets have always held such meetings since he became the coach four year ago. But on Thursday, Adams said the meetings would in fact be new. Usually on Fridays, the Jets’ defense gathers in small groups with members of the coaching staff. This would be the entire defense, sans coaches, reviewing film and making sure to get on the same page.

“That’s nothing about [our] coaching staff or against coach Bowles,” he said. “It’s just me stepping up, saying, ‘Hey, we’re going to be watching a little bit more film together as a defense as a whole, and not just separate groups.’

“To hear everybody’s [opinion of where we should be] as a D-line, as a secondary, as linebackers, to where we’re all on the same page as a defense.”