Exasperated Seahawks plan to let Jamal Adams finish rookie deal, tag him twice if need be https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...-finish-rookie-deal-tag-him-twice-if-need-be/ The Seahawks are at the end of their rope in the Jamal Adams negotiations. More than a week after making reportedly a final offer to the fifth-year safety and with no plans to budge, a league source tells PFT that the team is truly done negotiating with Adams. They believe they’re made a fair and appropriate offer, and that if he doesn’t want to accept it, he can play out his option year and get franchise-tagged twice, for 2022 and 2023. The Seahawks also are learning that which the Jets concluded before trading him last year — he’s not easily manageable. Or, as the case may be, not manageable at all. Seattle believes it treats players properly, that it pays them the appropriate amounts. They’ve reached the point where they’ve decided to let it play out one year at a time with Adams, more than confident that when push comes to shove he will show up and play. Those familiar with Adams from his time with the Jets aren’t surprised. The Jets traded him in part because they believed they couldn’t reason with him. And by giving up a pair of first-round picks in trade for him without signing him to a new deal, the Seahawks were inheriting a potential if not inevitable impasse. As recently noted, Adams will make $9.86 million this year under the fifth-year option. The franchise tag for safeties is projected to be $13.5 million in 2022. That then becomes a franchise tag in 2023 of $16.26 million. The Seahawks are presently content to pay him one year at a time, with the understanding that, after three years, he’ll become an unrestricted free agent. (They could still apply the transition tag in 2024, at a 20-percent raise over his 2023 salary. That would preserve their right to match any offer sheet he signs with a new team. A third franchise tag would become far too expensive, since it spikes to basically the quarterback tag.) This doesn’t mean the Seahawks can’t or won’t change their minds. For now, however, they’re content to move forward. At some point, they’ll need to communicate to Adams, who has been out of team drills with the team’s consent, that the time has come to start practicing and otherwise preparing for Week One, against the Colts. It’s possible that Adams will simply decide to accept the long-term financial security the Seahawks are offering. A major injury in 2021, for example, would cap his guaranteed earnings at $9.86 million. However, Adams is as stubborn as he is talented. There’s no reason to think he’ll blink. Although the Seahawks seem to think he’ll cooperate with the one-year-at-a-time approach, it remains to be seen how he reacts once it becomes clear that, if he doesn’t take their last, best offer, there won’t be a long-term deal.
2 first round picks for this overrated diva is working out to be absolute theft! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
The guy is worse than Revi$. I liked him his first 2 seasons but he has been out of his head since then. He was a HUGE distraction and I am glad he is out of the club.
I doubt Adams will win the challenge on S vs LB. He was drafted as a safety and has been listed as a safety on every roster he has been on. Arbitrators tend to go with the most logical solution that presents the fewest diversions from what the case appears to be. And yeah, the Jets dodged a huge bullet here. Also, the Seahawks are at a significant disadvantage in the overall situation due to the trade price they paid to acquire him. One of the factors in overpaying for players in trades or trade ups is that the guy has you by the balls on things like contract negotiations. This is one of the reasons that trading up is a significant overall negative.
SMH.. such a Jamal Adams move "I'm the best safety in the league and deserve to be paid like it" "ok we will franchise you. It will pay you an average of what the top safeties make" "No, I'm a linebacker not a safety!"
now he thinks he's a linebacker! yeah, love teh way he takes on OL blocks!!! CLOWN!!! so glad the hyped POS is off my team!!!
Adams made a lot of noise about needing to win and there was the general sense that he was going to force his way off the Jets no matter what. In Seattle he's on a winning team and he's going to force his way out of town there eventually also. The question I have is: why do the Jets keep winding up with greedy, selfish players who put themselves before the team in virtually everything they do? Revis and Adams are probably #1 and #2 on that list over the last decade. It just seems so unlikely that the Jets would wind up with both of those guys and have both situations turn out the same - with the guy traded for a decent return and then immediately making his new team regret the acquisition.
