Two-plus weeks into training camp, Jamal Adams remains an unsigned spectator at Seahawks practice. The two sides have been negotiating, but the talks have not moved in a bit. More clarity has emerged on this situation.
The Seahawks have offered Adams a four-year, $70MM deal, according to Adam Jude and Bob Condotta of the Seattle Times, who add that this extension would include $38MM guaranteed. This offer satisfies the team’s desire to keep Bobby Wagner as its highest-paid defender while making Adams the NFL’s highest-paid safety by more than $2MM per year, but it has not moved the fifth-year safety to sign.
Adams’ camp and the team were part by $4MM per year coming into training camp, per Jude and Condotta, but progress emerged last week that brought this saga close to a compromise. This $17.5MM AAV looks to have satisfied Adams, but his side countered with a proposal that included $40MM guaranteed and bonus money paid out in the deal’s first three years. The team wants Adams’ bonus divvied out over the length of the four-year contract. While bending on these two issues would not seem a major ask of the Seahawks, they are not budging.
No negotiations have taken place since Friday, according to the Seattle Times. Since acquiring the former Jets top-10 pick last summer, the Seahawks had pinpointed this time window to extend Adams. But the process has hit a snag. Both Adams and left tackle Duane Brown are staging hold-ins ahead of contract-year seasons. Pete Carroll has yet to confirm contract talks are ongoing with Brown, with the Seahawks devoting their extension attention to Adams at this point. But this has proven to be a difficult task to check off.
Landon Collins‘ 2019 extension leads the safety position with $44MM guaranteed. That includes injury guarantees. No safety has been guaranteed more than $32.1MM at signing, with the Broncos’ Justin Simmons leading the way there ($32.1MM) and in AAV ($15.25MM). Adams has sought a deal well north of Simmons’ pact, while the Seahawks have stuck to a price range. If the sides have bridged that gap, a deal should not be too far away. However, both parties are evidently willing to wait for the other to blink at this point.
Good for Adams. The heck w/ ‘hometown discounts’.
2m per year more than the current highest paid safety is a hometown discount?
Seattle coughed up the picks. He has the upper hand. Why settle? The PR backlash from trading 2 1st round picks and letting Adams walk after 2 years wouldn’t be good for the HC or GM. Its a business deal.
Imagine the backlash if they paid him 30m a year
Backlash from whom, fans? It’s all monopoly money to me. What top their players make in 1 week, I’ll make in 5 years (example).
Adams has leverage, but not that much. Seattle could slap the franchise tag on him in back to back years meaning he would make about the same that he would on the fifth year option plus two franchise tags as he would through the first 2-3 seasons of a new deal depending on how base salary and bonuses are worked out.
What home town discount? He was offered a deal that would have made him the highest paid safety in the game. He wants more. Screw him. He can play out his contract or sit if he doesn’t like the offer.
Why should he not max out his value? The GM, coaching staff, & ownership do.
Cause they could always pull the offer and then he’s only guaranteed this season, if he plays
Then he’s a FA and can choose where he wants to play.
Not with two years of eligibility to be franchise tagged. You should read the Seattle Times piece that they included. It’s a well written article that covers all of the potential moves each side could make.
Top 3 in salary for his position for tagged years. Easy money & easier to pull a hammy.
Because there is a cap. If there weren’t, I could agree, but that would also severely hurt the competitiveness of smaller market teams.
Denver in the 1990’s, after the SB run with Elway, was the last time a ‘cap penalty’ came about. It’s not Adams job to manage the books.
No it’s not, but I’m giving you an answer as to “what’s wrong with players maximizing their value”. It hurts the team competitiveness. You can decide which is more important to you, but I’m noting the downside to that argument.
Highest paid safety in the league by 2 million per year is hardly a hometown deal? Just what are these guys thinking? These top players make more in a 4 year contract than most Americans in a lifetime. Shut up and sign or go get a job like the rest of the country!
I don’t think that he’s implying it’s a home team discount, but rather “heck” with it and get the most you can. Caving to a discounted offer is not what he’s suggesting.
Trading away significant draft capital for a player and then playing hardball with him doesn’t seem like a great decision but it’s what you would expect from an organization that called for a pass from the 1 yard line in a SB.
With the game MVP in the backfield. Lynch ran the ball to the 1 yard line.
You bozos still listening to the media. First the play call was not bad the execution was poor. If Wilson threw the ball between knees and waist and led him this convo would never happen. That is a play Seattle has used a multitude of times. That is why the exSeattle DB read the play and Butler made the play. Remember that execution not call was poor.
Seattle is not lowballing him he made an ask and Seattle has answered it but Adams kicked the can down the road more. Seattle wants to spread money out he wants it sooner. Seattle is looking for cap health Adams is pushing the envelope to see how far he can go. DBs are turning into WRs and competing for the Diva spot. I would imagine if Seattle holds pat he will sign. A couple mill a year over a couple years means nothing but pride.
I guess ego not pride is more correct.
I’ll preface this with the fact that I’m a Seahawks fan – attended our SB win over Denver. Your comment made me watch the clip again to confirm what I remember. Besides a great read by Butler to jump the route, I still believe that Lockette should have had his arms extended instead of tucked close to his body. That fundamental of going after the ball, not waiting for it to come to you (and potentially popping off your shoulder pad) could have made a difference. At least at that point it’s a contested ball and hopefully an incomplete pass, ya know? It’s a small thing easy to pick on in slow motion but that’s what coaching staff and players do to examine and improve.
That was a bad playcall. There’s no way around that conclusion. I agree with you that running the ball was not the best option. It was, however, a better option than a slant, the most common passing play in short yardage situations. Butler didn’t get lucky and just magically predict that play. He practiced an extremely common and extremely simple route concept that every single team in the league has used for decades.
If Seattle wanted to pass, they should have run a playaction boot to capitalize on a run anxious defense (as they claimed they were doing) and their mobile quarterback. That would have freed more routes and given Wilson to run it the handful of yards if the secondary covered the pass. Another option would have been to try a fade in the back of the endzone. Seattle, let us all remember, had a 6’5” receiver who had burst into that game with over a 100 yards. Matthews was having his way with the defense and had a huge height advantage over almost every NE defender (excluding Brandon Browner). Lastly, Seattle could have run one more rushing attempt. A Lynch fumble would be the worst case scenario, and even that gives Seattle a chance at recovery. We saw the worst outcome of the slant because it played out-and it played out because of how predictable that call was. Don’t forget that it was not fourth, or even third down, and there was plenty of time (I believe Seattle had a timeout? I could be wrong). A rushing attempt, or the fade, could have all been run before the play-action if necessary.
That slant was actually the absolute worst call Seattle could have run.
The thing about the safety market is that WFT massively overpaid for Collins and haven’t really gotten their money’s worth, so that shifted things when they probably shouldn’t have been.
Also, I don’t understand these few sentences in this article, someone please help me out:
‘Landon Collins‘ 2019 extension leads the safety position with $44MM guaranteed. That includes injury guarantees. No safety has been guaranteed more than $32.1MM at signing’
How can no safety have been guaranteed more than $32.1MM when Collins was guaranteed $44MM?
Thanks for the two first round picks for this pain in the rear diva.