Jets' Jamal Adams blasts NFL over fine for hit on Browns QB Baker Mayfield

E.Jay Zarett

Jets' Jamal Adams blasts NFL over fine for hit on Browns QB Baker Mayfield image

Jamal Adams is not happy with the NFL. 

The 23-year-old Jets safety blasted the league in a Twitter post Wednesday after he said he was fined $21,000 for a late hit on Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield in the first quarter of his team's 23-3 Week 2 loss to the Browns. 

"This league is a damn joke!" Adams wrote. "I just got fined $21k for this hit, I signed up to play football not two hand touch. Bull—! I don’t give a damn about these soft rules protecting QBs. Im gonna play MY brand of football everytime I step on the field. SMH." 

Adams recorded five total tackles against Cleveland but said during a recent interview he was benched late in the game. 

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"I tried to anticipate a play, which I anticipated wrong, and I was benched," Adams told WFAN. "It happens. I just got to continue to do my job to the best of my ability as well as help lead the guys around me. I don't really know why or what was the reason. I made the penalty, and they took me out, so I'm not upset. Well, I am upset that I wanted to finish the game, but I obviously didn't finish the game. It is what it is.

"I made a bonehead mistake. One thing about me is that I'm always going to finish the game regardless. It doesn't matter what's going on. I'm out there to hunt. That's just how I am."

The Jets originally selected Adams out of LSU with the No. 6 pick in the 2017 NFL Draft. He made his first career Pro Bowl last season. 

New York (0-2) will face the Patriots (2-0) in New England on Sunday. 

 

E.Jay Zarett