It wasn’t about the noise coming from the month or social media accounts of Jamal Adams. It was all about the draft picks coming from Seattle.
That’s the message New York Jets general manager Joe Douglas pushed on Monday, when he explained why he sent his best player, Adams, to the Seahawks in a blockbuster trade that included two first-round picks coming back to the Jets.
“It really was our plan to keep Jamal here,” Douglas said on a conference call. “But … obviously we received an offer that was just too difficult to pass up and we decided to move forward.