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As Jamal Adams’ time with the New York Jets was nearing its finish, one NFL expertise evaluator made a daring prediction, saying the Seattle Seahawks would have the league’s finest secondary in the event that they had been to land the All-Professional security.

Even when it is not the second coming of the Legion of Increase, this group has the potential to be a pressure in a method it hasn’t been since Richard Sherman, Kam Chancellor and Earl Thomas III final performed collectively early in 2017. What was a query mark at first of the offseason now appears to be like like a energy with the acquisition of Adams following that of Quinton Dunbar, who will not face expenses in his armed-robbery case.

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Left cornerback Shaquill Griffin made the Professional Bowl as an alternate final yr following a down season in 2018, a bounce-back the Seahawks hope Tre Flowers can replicate for nonetheless many video games he may need to step in for Dunbar on the opposite aspect. Quandre Diggs was a difference-maker at free security after arriving in an October commerce with the Detroit Lions. Marquise Blair has starting-caliber expertise however will share nickelback duties with Ugo Amadi, a fellow 2019 draft decide.

With two Professional Bowls and a first-team All-Professional choice in three NFL seasons, Adams’ pedigree is on a special degree.

“There’s so many issues that he does nicely that we’re enthusiastic about becoming that collectively as we transfer ahead,” coach Pete Carroll stated final week. “It would not seem to be uncharted territory for me in any respect as a result of I have been very lucky and have coached some actually, actually good safeties through the years, and I see traits of Jamal in all of these guys. He can do all the pieces that we wish a man to do.”

Carroll cited Corridor of Famer Troy Polamalu, whom he coached at USC, as a great comparability for Adams, their dissimilar bodily profile apart.

“There’s some actual similarities,” Carroll stated. “Neglect the stature a part of it, the best way they give the impression of being. It is the character that they play with is comparable. They play with such superb confidence that after they see issues, they go get issues.”

The sensation contained in the Virginia Mason Athletic Heart is that Adams is a greater participant than Chancellor and Thomas, which is saying one thing given Thomas’ Corridor of Fame trajectory. With two profession interceptions, he is not a ballhawk like Thomas, neither is he as huge of a thumper as Chancellor (few are), however the Seahawks see Adams as extra athletic and higher in protection than Chancellor whereas being probably the most versatile of the three given his means to match up on speedy tight ends and get after the quarterback as a blitzer.

All-Professional security Jamal Adams offers the Seahawks’ secondary an edge it hasn’t had since Earl Thomas and Kam Chancellor patrolled the final line of protection. Adam Starvation, File/AP

Benefiting from Adams’ pass-rushing expertise will probably be a part of their plan to be extra aggressive in creating strain. His 6.5 sacks with the Jets final season had been 2.5 greater than any Seahawk recorded on the best way to solely 28 as a group.

“Excellent match for his or her D,” a expertise evaluator from one other group stated of Adams, including that he offers the Seahawks the Chancellor-type presence they have been lacking.

The identical evaluator described him as robust, an excellent chief and a tone-setter, which illustrates one more reason the Seahawks thought extremely sufficient of Adams to justify the 2 first-round picks (after which some) they parted with to accumulate him: the influence they really feel his character can have of their locker room.

There was a ruthlessness that outlined the Legion of Increase as a lot as expertise. Brandon Browner, as soon as the NFL’s most bodily cornerback, welcomed Terrell Owens to coaching camp by driving the long run Corridor of Famer into the turf, then stepping over him with an Allen Iverson-like punctuation. Sherman shied away from nobody and would tangle with anybody in observe, even his finest pal, Doug Baldwin. Thomas was so intense that he hardly cracked a smile throughout a 2013 press convention celebrating his document contract extension. Chancellor was one of many league’s most feared gamers, a group captain and a tone-setter on the sphere and within the locker room.

The Seahawks have gotten away from these varieties of robust personalities, maybe out of overcorrection. It would not seem to be a coincidence that, after messy divorces from Thomas and Sherman, Carroll and basic supervisor John Schneider have not too long ago proven extra of an inclination to gamers who’re simpler to handle. Whereas that may have meant fewer complications, the Seahawks really feel their locker room has misplaced a few of its edge.

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Adams offers them what they have been lacking in that regard — a dominant character whose presence will elevate their youthful defensive backs.

Carroll, who’s skilled each edges of the alpha-male sword, stated a deep dive into Adams’ background gave the Seahawks confidence that he would match into their locker room and coexist with their teaching workers. Adams publicly criticized coach Adam Gase throughout his contract dispute with the Jets.

“Simply watch him play,” Carroll stated. “Watch the juice that he brings. Watch the power that he feels in taking part in this sport that he loves and the way that impacts the folks round him.

“You possibly can see him be all fiery and interpret that like he is being egocentric or like he is being overly outgoing or no matter — c’mon. This man loves what he does and he cares a lot that the fervour simply exploded out of him at instances, which is strictly what you have seen in gamers that we have had in our program for years. So to have an opportunity so as to add that to our group, overlook all of the playmaking stuff. It is that ingredient of mentality that I would love so as to add in order that Bobby [Wagner] will get to play with a man like and that [Jarran] Reed will get to play with a man like that and Bruce [Irvin], they usually’ll all feed off of one another.”