Adams Unloads on Clueless Joe

Just when I thought you couldn’t be any dumber you do something like this... and totally redeem yourself.

Jamal Adams situation with the Jets is nothing short of a disaster, but after his shoot interview with Manish Mehta yesterday, the safety has me rooting for him again. Adams described Joe Douglas as the bumbling fool that he is. Too bad Adams wasn’t an offensive lineman since the GMs wet dream of having a 53 man roster of only lineman is close to coming true.

In the interview Adams shares his thoughts on Douglas “If they would have just simply said, ‘You know what, Jamal — we’re not going to look to pay you this year, we want to keep adding players — I would have respected that more, I would say, ‘You know what? I respect it. As a man, I get it. I understand it’s a business.’.” He continues “And Why would Joe come out and say, ‘We want to make Jamal a Jet for life?’ Why would you say that and then not even give me an offer?... Don’t B.S. me. I’m a straightforward guy. You don’t have to B.S. me, because I’m going to keep it honest.”

As well as Adam Gase “I don’t feel like he’s the right leader for this organization to reach the Promised Land,” Adams said. “As a leader, what really bothers me is that he doesn’t have a relationship with everybody in the building. At the end of the day, he doesn’t address the team,” Adams added, “If there’s a problem in the locker room, he lets another coach address the team. If we’re playing sh---y and we’re losing, he doesn’t address the entire team as a group at halftime. He’ll walk out of the locker room and let another coach handle it.”

The Jets roster had a lot of holes going into the offseason and Douglas buried his head up his ass and just concentrated on using all our assets to fix the o-line. He alienated the franchise’s second most important piece aside from Sam and I think showed the rest of the team he can’t be trusted. I already was on the fence about Douglas when he didn’t show any effort to bring back Robby Anderson earlier in free agency in spite of his great chemistry with Darnold.

Regardless of where you fall in this situation, these are the facts of where both sides are as of today. Jamal Adams is under contract for 2 more years with the Jets. He can get franchised for two more years after that and still not makes as much as he’s looking for since Safety isn’t a premium position in the NFL. If he doesn’t want to play for the Jets he can sit out and continue to lose money. After his comments in the media it would be awkward if he just shows up to camp next week like nothing happened.

The Jets and Joe Douglas are also in a no win position also. Instead of handling things behind closed doors, the GM will eat his words saying he wanted Adams to be “a Jet for life” giving the expectation that the contract extension was imminent. If we had no intention of signing Adams then we should have traded him before the draft. Now teams around the league know the Jets will need to get rid of him and will be lowballing offers. Also, you’d have to think Jamal’s continued outbursts may also make teams wary of bringing him onboard.

While I sort of respect Adams going full Costanza, maybe using Namath’s jersey as a napkin at B Dubs or dragging the Lombardi Trophy down Route 3, until this situation is resolved it will be a huge distraction for the rest of the team. Douglas needs to act swiftly and take a stand before camp begins next week or this cancer can kill the 2020 season before it begins.

Pick 5 Challenge (18-22 -$416)

Tonight's card is the fourth and final scheduled card during this first run at Fight Island. All things considered it has been an enormous success for the UFC, as Dana and company expect to revisit Yas Island again in the near future. The main event is for a possible title shot against the winner of Adesanya and Costa at UFC 253 in September. Bobby Knuckles should win tonight if he's there mentally. Till is coming off a spilt decision win against Kelvin Gastelum, breaking a two fight skid. Whittaker is looking to get his belt back after Adesanya broke his eight fight winning streak at middleweight.

Not much can be said about Shogun and Lil Nog's trilogy that started 15 years ago in Pride. We are even 5 years removed from the rematch at UFC 190, and nothing makes me think that Minotouro can get his first win against Rua here. This can be the last fight in their careers for both of these legends. Meanwhile, Alexander Gustafsson has returned from a Francesa like retirement to move up to heavyweight to battle former champ Fabricio Werdum. La Cavalo looked sluggish at UFC 249 in May following a two year PED suspension, but the Swede may be overmatched here by the BJJ blackbelt. I'll take the +260 with Werdum as a great value.

Robert Whittaker -135
Shogun Rua -195
Fabricio Werdum +260
Carla Esparza +145
Paul Craig -135
(5-0 +$705)

Fight Island is Real and it’s Spectacular

Dana White continues to show people like that stupid idiot Fauci, who wants everything fun to be cancelled, to stop doubting the UFC. People thought White had gone mad when he brought up Fight Island in April, but tonight we get our tiki torches and our Jimmy Buffet playlist ready as UFC 251 kicks off a string of 4 shows this month from Yas Island. Granted Abu Dhabi isn’t some tropical location like people had in mind, but we have to give the UFC some creative license. It sounds like the organization is planning on alternating between Vegas and Fight Island for the foreseeable future.

UFC 251 took a step back before taking two huge steps forward last week. The scheduled main event of Kamaru Usman and Gilbert Burns was cancelled last Friday when the challenger tested positive for COVID. Instead, Dana resurrected Street Jesus and Jorge Masvidal is looking to baptize Marty Fakenewsman.

Kamaru Usman is the superior wrestler, but I think the 35-year old Masvidal is on a magical run. His violent stoppages of Darren Till, Ben Askren, and Nate Diaz last year remind me of the career resurgeance Michael Bisping had before his upset of Luke Rockhold to get gold for the first time in 2016. Masvidal has the advantage that every round has to start with both men standing and I think one of Gamebred's shots will turn Usman's lights out.

The co-main event is a rematch of UFC 245's Featherweight Title between Alexander Volkanovski and Max Holloway. December feels like 5 years ago at this point. Volkanovski used leg kicks to chop down and keep the Hawaiian at bay ending his 14 fight win-streak at 145 pounds. I think Max is just too good of a fighter to not make the necessary adjustments to win tonight. At just 28, Blessed is still in the prime of his career and he'll regain his crown.

The feature fight is also for a strap, as Petr Yan and Jose Aldo battle for the vacant Bantamweight title that Henry Cejudo gave up when he retired. Despite a strong showing in his debut in the weight class, Aldo lost a split decision to Marlon Moraes, but was gifted a title shot at UFC 250, originally scheduled for his native Brazil. After corona shook everything up, Dana still felt like the owed the veteran a title shot.

Petr Yan is 6-0 in the UFC after making quick work of Urijah Faber at UFC 245. While Aldo will be his toughest task to date, Yan has been a buzzsaw and is a complete MMA fighter. Bantamweight is the most exciting division in the sport with the likes of Aljo Sterling, Sean O'Malley, Cody Gardbrandt and the soon to be debuting Frankie Edgar (still disappointed UFC didn't find a replacement for his fight on Wednesday)

The women's division is the star of the first two fights on the PPV. Rose Namjunas and Jessica Andrade are rematching from their title fight in May of last year. Rose was picking Andrade apart when she was in the wrong position on a slam that knocked her out. Andrade then lost the title to Weili Zhang in her first defense. From what I've heard in pre-fight interviews Rose is focused and looking to avenge the loss. A win should put her back in title contention. Paige Van Zant is on the last fight of her contract and rumored to be on her way out of the UFC and beginning a career in Belator where her husband fights. UFC feels like this can be a chance at a star making performance for Amanda Ribas against the bigger name, and Vegas agrees.

Pick 5 Challenge (18-22 -$416) Updated 7/25

My luck is turning back around after a shaky start going 4-1 in the last card. I'll update this page with the rest of my picks for the Fight Night cards after doing some more research. Not going to lie, there are some donks on those cards.

UFC 251 (3-2 +$104)

Jorge Masvidal +195

Max Holloway +175

Petr Yan by KO/Submission +104

Rose Namajunas -210

Marcin Tybura -115

UFC Fight Night 7/15 (1-4 -$420)

Ricardo Ramos -165

Andreas Michalidis +145

Molly McCann -155

Tim Elliott -140

Cody Stamman +115

UFC Fight Night 7/18 (2-3 -$125)

Joe Benavidez +175

Kelvin Gastelum -130

Mark Diakiese -160

Arianne Lipski -125

Askar Askarov +165