Total Breakdown: Mike Macdonald broke down in tears when he broke the awful news about this important player and provided a heartbreaking update.
Since being traded to the Seattle Seahawks prior to the 2020 season, Jamal Adams will have appeared in 34 of 67 games by the completion of the current campaign. Over the last 24 months, he will have participated in only 10 out of 34 games. Although Adams is unable to control his injuries, the Seahawks must make the difficult financial decision to release him. No player wants to sustain a serious injury.
However, the chances of that happening seem pretty slim. General manager John Schneider stated that the Seahawks are hoping that Adams would have his “best offseason” and be fully healthy by Week 1 of 2024 during the team’s pregame show before to Week 17.
“We came to the conclusion together that he couldn’t get right, couldn’t get full speed, couldn’t put his foot in the ground (to cut),” head coach Pete Carroll said of Adams following the game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.I’m incredibly impressed with him. He exerted every effort. He had the proper attitude the entire time and blasted his rear.”
Jamal Adams should be released by the Seattle Seahawks, but they probably won’t
When it comes to Adams, Schneider and Carroll did not even imply that the organization will have to consider every avenue this upcoming summer. Perhaps this is just the traditional Seahawks approach of seeing the bright side of practically every circumstance. However, Schneider and Carroll are lying to themselves if they are just telling the truth.
There is no reason to believe that Jamal Adams will ever again be regularly well and productive. He was already terrible in that area prior to the 2020 move, and he still is. This season, Seattle also tested Adams in a hybrid linebacker/safety role, hoping he could disrupt opposing quarterbacks and aid in stopping the run. Let’s imagine, however, that Adams is still recovering from an injury sustained 15 months ago in Week 1 of 2022. The problem is that since 2020, Adams hasn’t been able to provide much to the pass rush or defense against the run.
Adams played in 12 games that season and recorded 9.5 sacks and 14 quarterback hits. The Associated Press awarded him Second-Team All-Pro. Even if his coverage wasn’t flawless, he was nonetheless helpful in other ways. However, Adams has only produced five QB hits and zero sacks in 22 games since 2020—despite having 621 more snaps overall than he did in 2020. Since joining the Seahawks, his quarterback rating allowed is 104.0.
Adams doesn’t do much to aid the defense, even when he is somewhat healthy. It is unlikely that he will ever be completely healthy again. However, prior to the 2023 season, Seattle revised Adams’s contract, increasing his cap hit for 2024. The Seahawks: what were they thinking? When it comes to Jamal Adams, they appear to continually getting things wrong.
Adams may still be released by Seattle in the upcoming offseason. While his dead cap is $20,833,334 in 2024, his cap hit is $26,916,666. Although it is a sizable portion of dead cap, Seattle could still save slightly more than $6 million by letting him go. The Seahawks have no excuse not to take such action, but Seattle seems to be blind to the safety, and he’ll probably return in 2024—hopefully still ineffectual.
