Back home in Dallas, Michelle Adams got her son on the phone late last night, and when she used his full name, Jamal Lee Adams knew he'd better listen up.
And the next day, with a nudge from his mom, Jamal Adams signed a four-year contract extension with the Seahawks, a deal that made him the highest-paid safety in the NFL.
"Mom called, she called twice, and when mom called and she told me I needed to take the contract, it was a no-brainer," Adams said. "Mama knows best."
A contract extension with Adams was in the Seahawks' plans ever since they acquired him in a trade with the Jets last summer, and the two sides have been in talks for a while, and after Adams sat out the first three weeks of practice while waiting for the deal to get done, mom picked up the phone.
"She said my full name, and when my mother says my full name, I think I need to pay attention," Adams said.
Michelle Adams' message to her son: "'You don't have to prove anything else to anybody,'" Adams recalled his mom telling him. "'You did it, you did enough, we're happy.' As long as my family's happy and I'm happy, and I can come and do what I love to do, that's all that matters to me."
Because the Seahawks gave up so much to acquire Adams, a package that included two first-round picks, they viewed this extension as an inevitability when they made the deal with the Jets more than a year ago. Yes, the deal took time, and as Carroll noted, a lot of work behind the scenes by general manager John Schneider and vice president of football administration Matt Thomas, along with the support of Seahawks Chair Jody Allen, but the conclusion reached Tuesday—paying Adams handsomely to keep on the league's top defensive players in Seattle for a long time—was always the plan from Day 1.
"This was the plan the whole time was to go after a great football player, get him in the program, pay what you've got to pay to get it done in terms of draft picks, and then knowing that we're going to do a contract," Carroll said. "It took a while to get it done, but it's over now. So the fact that we're here and everything's moving forward, and let me say this, Jamal was great throughout the whole process. He communicated well with us, he was very good with everybody in the building, he was here and attentive in meetings and all that stuff, and just respected our program as we went through the process, as we respected his representation and all. So I think it means a ton, he's a great football player. He's a young man that's just getting started, he loves being here, he's a big factor on your team, play-wise but also spirit-wise and in the leadership that he brings and the toughness that he brings, and the juice that he brings is unique.
"I also want to say that this is a statement of support in the relationship that we have with Jody Allen, and how she has been there for us on a number of deals as we made this team come together, and this one in particular. John and Matt Thomas and Jody, they had a lot of communications to make sure that we can make this come to come to life. Her support's incredibly consistent in clear, and we couldn't ask for more."
Adams too felt that this deal was always going to happen, and added that he had no intention of missing games if negotiations had for some reason lasted that long,
"Absolutely," Adams said when asked if he knew an extension would get worked out after last year's trade. "Day 1. They kept their word, and that's all I could ask for, and here we are."
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