Florham Park – On Tuesday, the NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport and Mike Garafolo announced that Las Vegas Raiders receiver Davante Adams requested a trade.
On Wednesday, ESPN’s Adam Schefter announced that the New York Jets and New Orleans Saints are high on Davante Adams’ wish list.
On Thursday, Rapoport announced Adams hopes to be traded to the Jets.
Whatever happens on this front, from a football culture standpoint, it would probably be best for Jets players to refrain from commenting on this.
Players play, coaches coach and GMs pick the players.
Stay in your lane.
Farm your own land.
If a Jets player says the team should trade for Adams, they are, in a way, taking a shot at other Jets receivers like Mike Williams and Allen Lazard, who often line up opposite the team’s #1 receiver, Garrett Wilson.
If you are a player on a team that lobbies for your team to trade for a player at a certain position, in the long run, that new player will take a job away from a current teammate at that position.
How would you feel if a teammate did that to you?
So for the sake of the locker room, it’s probably best to let the GM handle this, say “no comment” and make “main thing the main thing” as players like to say a lot.
As Bill Belichick always said to his players, “Do your job.”
And a player’s job isn’t in the team’s personnel department.
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