Davante Adams refuses to stay silent after seeing glaring Jets issues: Dont have time

It took Davante Adams six days of being a Jet to see problems with the team’s culture and feel the need to speak up about it.Adams gave a speech to the Jets in the locker room following Sunday night’s 37-15 loss to the Steelers in Pittsburgh.Despite only joining the team less than a week before the game, Adams felt the need to speak up about what he perceived as a lack of energy from the team.“Obviously, there was a lack of energy and urgency out there.

It was apparent,” Adams said Wednesday.“I’ve played on teams that have that winning culture.

Basically, I took a moment to let them know.I had reservations about speaking up too early and being too vocal too early, but in my mind I said, ‘F that’ because we don’t have time.

I’ve got to do whatever I’ve got to do to help this team move forward.“I wouldn’t have been able to sleep if I didn’t speak up on it.”Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers said the speech from Adams was well received by the team.“I thought it was the realest speech I’ve ever heard in a locker room in 20 years,” Rodgers said.It would be interesting to know what Jets players who have been on the team for a while thought about a player who just arrived telling them about the team’s culture.But Adams said he was surprised at what he saw in the game against the Steelers.

He cited how the sideline looked dead after Breece Hall’s 57-yard reception.“A lot of these guys in here haven’t been anywhere else where they’ve won and have had that urgency that it takes in order to be a good team,” Adams said.“This team being so talented roster-wise, it’s just a waste to have everybody out there and to have a dead sideline like that.”Adams only had three catches for 30 yards in the loss, a disappointing start to his Jets career.

But Adams said he does not see his role as only producing on the field for the Jets but also changing the organization.“I’m not here to be the savior,” Adams said.“The whole world...