The New York Jets acquired Davante Adams the morning after another largely punchless offensive performance in prime time, which was followed by Aaron Rodgers announcing at the podium that his veteran wide receiver ran the wrong route on a game-ending interception. Of course they did. There was no other option.
The Jets are sitting at 2–4, already circling the exterior of being called one of the loudest disasters certainly in franchise history but also in modern NFL history. Had the Jets simply allowed Adams to be traded elsewhere, owner Woody Johnson would forever wear the dreaded scarlet letter of frugality; that he chose to go most of the way in but winced when it came to paying a 30-plus-year-old wide receiver at the top of the market for a little more than half a season and parting with affordable draft picks in order to do so.
