Did Jamal Adams Seek a Trade From The Jets?

And a day after the Jets 23-3 loss to the Cleveland Browns, their defensive captain made some waves. 

Jamal Adams unfollowed the Jets on Instagram and removed any reference of the franchise from his biography. Why is this a big deal? Who really cares? Well, when this kind of social media subterfuge happens, people begin to speculate that it could be a message ... a message that Adams wants to be traded out of town. 

While the evidence to suggest that Adams is pushing for a trade is flimsy at best, many are reading into the recent trend that has taken the league by storm for players to hold a teams feet to the fire and request a trade. 

From Antonio Brown, who did everything he could get out of Pittsburgh and Oakland to former Dolphins corner back Minkah Fitzpatrick, who demanded a trade out of South Florida -- players are getting their way in unprecedented fashion.

 Brown pouted enough that he got his release, and wound up where he wanted to be -- New England. Fitzpatrick got traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday. Now Jaguars safety Jalen Ramsey is requesting a trade fro the Jags after getting into a spat with head coach Doug Marrone. 

If the rumors are true and Adams joins this list of petty and pouty players, he has failed to live up to the C that is on his chest. For a player who has spent most of his time in New York talking about how good he is, and how good the Jets could be in the future, it would be the ultimate cop-out to tuck, tail and run out of town. 

New York Daily News known conspiracy theorist Manish Mehta wrote that perhaps Adams' issues with the Jets trace to Defensive Coordinator Gregg Williams. Adams told WFAN in New York that he was benched by Williams in the waning minutes of last nights disaster against the Browns. 

Of course leave it to Mehta and the Twitterverse to trace a connection between the benching and Adams erasing the Jets from his social media platforms as a sign that the safety has had enough. 

The truth is nobody really knows what is going on here. 

If Adams requested a trade because his coach gave him what amounts to a time out in a lost game, then Adams would really need to check himself at the door. Williams has every right to bench Adams if he feels he hasn't been playing well. There is no reason for Adams to lose his cool over it IF that is indeed what happened.

 And honestly it would be totally out of character for Adams, who is one of the more passionate players on the team to suddenly throw up his hands and demand a trade because his "feelings were hurt." Adams is too strong, and too smart to let that happen. 

Jets fans should hope the trade talk is nothing more than speculation.