Jamal Adams says he “would run through a brick wall” for Pete Carroll
By Lee Vowell
Jamal Adams told a podcast last week that he would “run through a brick wall” for Pete Carroll. That is important entering Adams’ walk year. In 2020 the Seattle Seahawks traded two-first round draft picks, a third-round pick and safety Bradley McDougald to the Jets for Adams and a 2022 fourth-round pick. Adams played really well in 2020 but giving up so much to get him means Seattle must find a way to re-sign him.
Therefore, if Jamal Adams is happy playing in Seattle currently that is important for the success of the franchise moving forward. On the Bill Simmons Podcast, Adams not only said he would run through the wall for head coach Carroll but said that “hopefully (Seattle is his) future because I love it here.”
Maybe these are just words from a player who speaks his mind and plays with a lot of emotion and if contract talks were to break down with the Seahawks Adams would easily move on to whichever team wanted him the most.
Jamal Adams and his fit with Pete Carroll
But Adams also says things with an air of positivity instead of argument. This is also important as this mimics what Pete Carroll does. It could be, beyond simply getting paid to be a very good professional football player, that Jamal Adams feels like he fits in with the culture of the Seahawks and I don’t think that can be undervalued.
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Adams has to be re-signed and hopefully prior to the end of the 2021 season. First, he is too good of a player to see leave and I don’t think we saw the best of Adams in 2020 because of his injuries. Secondly, Seattle gave up too much to get him without having a big picture idea of how to have Adams in a Seahawks jersey for the next five years-plus. If general manager John Schneider didn’t have an idea of how to do this, then there are bigger problems with the Seahawks besides getting Jamal Adams extended.