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As has been the case for almost an entire calendar year, safety Jamal Adams is not happy with the New York Jets. With two years remaining on his current rookie contract, the Pro Bowler wants a new deal, and wants it now, while the Jets have dug their heels in based on precedent, and the obvious fact that Adams has zero leverage. Why does Adams have no leverage? It's very simple. He is under contract through 2021 with a fifth year option worth $9.86 million, and the Jets can slap the franchise tag on him after that. Not to mention, as Ralph Vacchiano of SNY pointed out in his article, there is precedent. Since 2011, only 16 of the 233 first round picks have signed lucrative contract extensions before their fourth season. So the Jets don't really have to do anything right now. They can wait out the entire 2020 season if they wanted to before awarding Adams with a contract extension. Unfortunately Adams doesn't want to wait. He has dug his heels in, refusing to partici...

It didn't count in the standings. There were no major championships at stake. But for five hours on Sunday afternoon, four of the most significant athletics in the world, and of this Century gave sports fans across the Country a reason to cheer. While Major League Baseball, the NBA and NHL all contemplate how they are going to comeback from the COVID-19 pandemic,  the four faces that made up the past two decades of the NFL and the PGA Tour showed us all how it can be done, safely.  Tom Brady and Peyton Manning, two of the best to play the quarterback position in the NFL joined two of the best to ever hit the links in Tiger Woods and Phil Mickleson for a charity round of golf that raised $20 million to go to COVID-19 relief. And in typical fashion of the year 2020, the day was shrouded by constant, heavy rainfall that even delayed the start of play just a bit, but it certainly didn't dampen the mood, nor the significance of the event. Because for just a few hours while Bra...

In desperate need for a shutdown corner, the Jets might be on the precipice of signing former Tennessee Titans cornerback Logan Ryan to a one-year deal. Ryan would add instant credibility to a secondary that is desperate need of veteran leadership. Ryan, 29, is still in the prime of his career and is coming off a monster 2019 season with the Titans that saw him defend 18 passes, record 4-1/2 sacks, pick off four passes and collect 113 tackles. Ryan, a local kid from Berlin, New Jersey, who attended and played at Rutgers, is a versatile player who can move both into the slot and outside, making him a tricky player for offenses to prepare for. Remember he is also the guy that recorded a pick-6 on Tom Brady's final pass as New England Patriot in the Wild Card playoffs last season. This is a huge signing, if it gets done, for GM Joe Douglas who didn't do a lot to address the secondary this offseason, aside from signing and drafting a number of young players. This is the fir...

Baseball could be coming back later this summer, but that could be contingent on an agreement with the Player's Union, a task that will not be easy to achieve according to various sources. MLB has a proposal ready to present to the Players Union tomorrow that would begin the season in July, with a re-start to Spring Training beginning in mid-June. The plan would be to have all 30 MLB teams play in their home ballparks and play an 82-game season focused strictly on divisional play and interleague against a division from the same region, i.e. AL East vs. NL East. The season would begin around the Fourth of July weekend; playoffs would include 14 teams instead of the usual 10. But the path to even get that far might be very tricky according to ESPN's Jeff Passan. Passan says that the "negotiation" between the Players Union and Major League Baseball could be a "contentious" with money at the center of the issue. The Owners agreed to a 50-50 revenue split ...

When there is a football season, if there is a football season in 2020, it figures to be another rough one for the Giants and Jets. Not only are both teams still in the midst of a multi-year rebuild phase, but the both squads are going to see daunting schedules at hand. Granted, we all know that things can change during the course of a long season, but a gander at these schedules isn't pretty. The Giants open the season at home against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday Night Football. Of course it's anyone's guess if we even have football by Week 1, but if we do the match-up is very intriguing for no other reason then the fact that the Rooney's and Mara's are both related by marriage. Call it a family squabble? Big Blue will also see the NFC Champion 49ers, Rams and Cowboys within the seasons first five weeks. The oddity of the schedule comes in the middle of the season with Big Blue playing all of its games against the Eagles and Redskins in a period of five we...