Brady Henderson, ESPN
RENTON, Wash. — Amid complaint on social media and disapproval from mentor Pete Carroll, Seattle Seahawks protection Jamal Adams stood through the aim at the back of his since-deleted submit by which he fired again at an NFL reporter who had commented on his play games.
The reporter, who lined Adams all the way through the security’s era with the New York Jets, reposted a video on X (previously Twitter) closing Thursday evening of Adams permitting the go-ahead landing cross in a 41-35 loss to the Dallas Cowboys. The accompanying remark from the reporter was once “Yikes.”
Adams replied on X through posting an image of the reporter’s spouse at the side of the similar remark: “Yikes.”
Requested in regards to the belief that he crossed a form, Adams interjected.
“Oh, it’s always the athlete crossed the line when he responds,” Adams mentioned Wednesday. “But at the end of the day, disrespect is disrespect. However you want to take it. So I responded. I knew when I did hit that tweet, I wasn’t in it to win it. At the end of the day, it was to get him to understand to leave me the hell alone.”
Adams mentioned he and the reporter have “previous history” and that they “don’t like each other.”
“He’s been going on saying a couple things since the trade, and obviously it’s been happening before that, and I just got fed up with it,” Adams mentioned. “… Whether it was uncalled for or not, my ultimate goal was to get [him] to not respond to me anymore. That was the key, and that’s what I hope it is.”
Adams additionally fired again — each on X and within the storagefacility room on Wednesday — at any other Unutilized York reporter who had weighed in through calling Adams a wicked particular person.
“He’s another one,” Adams mentioned. “Do not like. … At the end of the day, hey, you responded to something that was not a part of y’alls team and you obviously had something personal versus me. So, hey, when others go low, I went lower.”
Previous, Carroll mentioned that he’s addressed the since-deleted submit with Adams.
“I don’t know if it was a great decision at the time,” Carroll mentioned. “I’m not sure about the details of it, but I know that he realized that he needed to take it down — what he had put up. We don’t want to be a part of that.”
A smiling Adams mentioned his communicate with Carroll was once “a great conversation.”
Requested in regards to the belief that he replied to critique of his play games with a private assault, Adams mentioned the reporter’s statement was once additionally non-public.
“It’s been personal with him and I ever since I’ve been with the Jets,” Adams mentioned. “… I just got fed up with it, bro. It was just the end of it, and I knew this only thing right here that I was going to tweet was going to hurt him. Anything else I would have said wouldn’t have hurt him, but he got my point and he knows not to continue to mess with me.”
He then added: “I hate that I had to bring her into the situation, but at the end of the day, the ultimate goal was to get at him.”
Adams, 28, is in his 7th NFL season and fourth with the Seahawks. He neglected maximum of closing season with a torn quad tendon.
