My most unpopular Seahawks opinions

On Jamal Adams, Sam Howell, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, and the Seahawks: Seaside Joe 1942

Did Jamal Adams single-handedly tarnish and guarantee the end of Pete Carroll’s career as a head coach? In the NFL, any time you try to give all of the credit or blame to one person, you are doomed to be proven wrong.

But it does kind of feel that way.

This newsletter’s continuous daily streak started on March 4, 2019, which was over a year before the Seahawks traded two first round picks, a third, and Bradley McDougald to the Jets for Adams and a fourth round pick. So I’ve covered the team pre-trade, the trade itself, the post-trade optimism, the post-contract pessimism, the 9.5 sacks, the quad injury, the second and third waves of optimism, and the release that leaves $20.8 million in dead cap space on Seattle’s books for 2024. And even after all that, the media is still asking questions to Mike Macdonald and John Schneider to find out if the Seahawks would bring back Adams as a linebacker.

Yes. A FOURTH wave of optimism.

To put it another way, it has been 1,431 days since the Seahawks traded for Jamal Adams and the Seaside Joe newsletter has gone out at least once on each of those dates. So really nobody has covered “Seattle’s Jamal Adams situation” more times than Seaside Joe has and I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve defended the trade more times than I can count.

It’s less than 1,431…but it’s more than…I don’t know…37 times.

Today’s Seaside Joe will cover some of my most “unpopular opinions” as they relate to the Seattle Seahawks. Some will be opinions that Seahawks fans like (for example, why the media is overlooking certain players on the team) and some will be opinions that some Seahawks fans won’t like (maybe why we could be overrating certain players), and the first one is about Jamal Adams and if that trade was the beginning of the end for Pete Carroll.

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