'I'll Go Lower!' Seattle Seahawks' Jamal Adams Defends Attack on Reporter's Wife
Seattle Seahawks star Jamal Adams is now speaking openly to the media about his offensive response to a reporter's critique of his play in a loss to the Dallas Cowboys ... and is doing so by doubling down on his initial disregard for decency and common sense.
"Disrespect is disrespect,'' Adams said on Wednesday. “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, ‘Leave me the hell alone.
When others go low, I go lower.”
"Low,'' indeed, for not only did Adams take offense to New York reporter Connor Hughes' observance of Adams' allowing a touchdown to Dallas' Jake Ferguson ("Yikes,'' wrote Hughes, in no way crossing any journalistic boundary) ...
Adams "hit that tweet'' by choosing to make fun of the appearance of Hughes' wife.
That's not a way to tell a reporter "leave me alone'' - which by the way, is an impossible ask for an NFL player as it regards his performance.
Rather, sadly, it seems to be a glimpse inside what makes the veteran safety Adams tick. And the glimpse inside is gross.
We're still stunned that the Seahawks as an organization have failed to address this with any sort of reprimand, firm stance, apology ... anything except for coach Pete Carroll all-too-dismissively having said, “We’ve already addressed (that) ... We don’t want to be a part of that.”
Unfortunately, that suggests to the audience that Adams' crudity, while not specifically preferred, is essentially excused. And to be clear: Athletes can argue with reporters. Reporters can argue with athletes. But attacks on or even references to families - on both sides - are completely out of bounds.
This is universally known and accepted in the world in which Adams gets paid handsomely to cover guys like Ferguson ... and to have to endure the occasional pain of a "Yikes'' review when he fails so miserably to do so.
Adams, meanwhile, suggested somewhere in his ridiculous presentation that he sorta knows he crossed a line, indicated that he didn't really want to involve the wife of the journalist, but by gosh, he just had to so he could get back at him.
It's sad. Jamal Adams is still trying to cover up his lack of decency and common sense ... and is doing it with about as much success as he covered Jake Ferguson.
Yikes.
