New York Jets rookie Jamal Adams was drafted with a lot of fanfare. Currently, despite the Jets being as awful you would expect, the first-year safety is claiming he wants to change how the position is played.
“I’m going to change the position,” Adams told the New York Daily News. “When you go out there on the field, you don’t try to stay the same. You try to make something happen. You try to do something different. When Odell made the one-handed catch, he changed the culture, right? He changed what receivers do now. Everybody’s catching with one hand, right? Because of him. Even though people were making one-handed catches, he did something that people had never seen before. So just give it time, brother. That’s all.”
Whoa. Slow down, man. How about you play a season before you act as if you're the next Steve Atwater.
I kid. I kid because I love.
For what it is worth, Jamal Adams never mentions — at least not specifically — what changes to the position he plans on bringing. Maybe he meant more with his natural abilities making him as versatile a player the position has ever seen, but that's all conjuncture at this point.
It is worth noting that, despite my bad attempts at humor, he has the work ethic to back up the claim.
“He’s passionate about football… and that’s what you see,” defensive backs coach Dennard Wilson said. “It’s not him trying to lead or trying to show you that he’s the leader. He’s passionate about what he does. He treats this game like he’s a little kid. He’s going out there and he’s playing with effort. The guys feed off him. So that’s what you see. It’s not him trying to lead. It’s just him loving football.”
Now, only time will tell if he has the skill set to do it.
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