Jamal Adams Accuses Jets of Going Behind His Back

New York Jets Pro Bowl safety Jamal Adams has accused the team of shopping him behind his back.

Following an underwhelming trade deadline day, New York Jets general manager Joe Douglas conducted a press conference. In it, he insisted that the organization were not shopping Jamal Adams or any other players.

Immediately afterwards, Jamal Adams took to Twitter to contradict his GM and vent his frustration. 

“Any reports of me asking to be traded from the New York Jets are completely false,” Adams tweeted. 

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“At the end of the week last week, I sat down with the GM and Coach Gase and told them I want to be here in New York. I was told yesterday by my agent that the GM then went behind my back and shopped me around to teams, even after I asked him to keep me here! Crazy business.”

The Jets were rumored to be shopping several players including Le’Veon Bell and Robby Anderson. No players were dealt, and Douglas said that they were not looking to sell anybody.

According to Douglas, the organization simply listened to the calls they got, which is par for the course.

“I think in this case it’s a simple miscommunication, I think someone told him that I was shopping him around and that’s not true. I was not shopping Jamal around,” Douglas said. 

“So I think it’s just a matter of talking with Jamal. I talked to a number of other players today that had been leaked out publicly that were being discussed in trade talks. I was able to talk to them individually, just let them know exactly what I told you guys. That there was talks.

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“I did listen to what teams had to say. At the end of the day, we’re not in the position, we’re 1-6, we’re not where we want to be. We’re not in a position where we’re looking to have a fire sale on players.”

“For me, again I’ll just say that from where I’m from, the organizations where I’ve grown up in, you listen to every call that comes in on every player unless it’s a franchise quarterback,” Douglas said. 

“We were in a situation where we listened to those calls. Again there wasn’t any crazy demands made. It wasn’t like, ‘Hey, we’re expecting to get this or nothing.’ It was: ‘What is your best offer on Player A?’ And it was multiple payers, not just Jamal. And we felt that all offers that were made weren’t offers that reached or exceed the value that we had with the player.”