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        <title><![CDATA[The unlikely Instagram middle man behind Jamal Adams’ Jets blowup]]></title>
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            <media:title type="html">The unlikely Instagram middle man behind Jamal Adams’ Jets blowup</media:title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jonathan Abrahams wants to set the record straight for all those critics ready to take away his right to be a Jets fan.</p><p>He thinks the Jets should re-sign Jamal Adams. He thinks Adams deserves to be the highest-paid safety in the NFL. He once posed for photos with his mother, nephew and Adams as they made nice small talk at a charity event.</p><p>And now Abrahams is miscast as the Jets fan who prompted the team’s biggest star <strong>to ask for a trade</strong> after <strong>his comment on Instagram prompted Adams’ latest of many rants </strong>voicing his frustration with his contract, followed hours later by an official trade request.</p><p>“Who would have even expected a reply?” Abrahams told The Post. “I saw that little red dot replying to me and I clicked it and all of a sudden I was like, ‘Is this actually from Jamal Adams? This is him responding to me?’ I was in shock.”</p><p>Abrahams is the unlikely middle man — a 47-year-old New Yorker who has been a fan since his mother brought him to a practice to meet Richard Todd and other 1970s Jets — in a feud that started in October when an insulted Adams was mentioned in trade talks.</p><figure id="attachment_15859217"  class="wp-caption alignnone aligncenter"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/06/Jamal-Adams-3.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/06/Jamal-Adams-3.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/06/Jamal-Adams-3.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Jamal Adams</span><span class="credit">Getty Images</span></figcaption></figure><p>Adams has been on a public crusade for an extension and raise all offseason, and seemed destined to hold out and request a trade sooner or later.</p><p>“I’ve been a Jets fan my entire life and I’ve never had this much control of the organization,” Abrahams quipped. “It’s crazy.”</p><p>He’s joking.</p><p>It started with this message from Abrahams: “Love your play Jamal and you are a great dude. And yes you definitely deserved to get paid either this year or next. But Pat Mahomes is all I gotta [say]. Super Bowl MVP and same year as u. The fans and team love you. Just don’t be that guy. Best of luck this season. Go Jets!”</p><p>The words lit a powder keg. Insulted at being “that guy,” Adams ended his reply with, “Maybe it’s time to move on.”</p><p>“I’m not just a ‘me’ kind of guy,” Abrahams said. “That’s just my thing. There’s always a way to handle things in-house. I mentioned Mahomes meaning you are talking about the NFL MVP and Super Bowl MVP and I don’t hear him complaining about the Kansas City Chiefs or making it public in the media that he hasn’t received a contract yet.”</p><p>Abrahams has seen Adams called a crybaby (and worse) by Jets fans, so he doesn’t know why his words hit a sore spot. They traded a couple more messages before Adams blocked Abrahams’ account and deleted his other personal barbs.</p><p>The reaction from Jets fans has been split between the rational and those ready to blame Abrahams for running Adams out of town. Even Abraham’s 20-year-old nephew is angry, but he is taking the unexpected attention in stride.</p><p>“I tell anyone that is complaining, first of all, if me making a comment like that to Jamal Adams is the reason he wants to be traded it’s ridiculous. If anyone believes that’s actually the reason, they’ve got some serious problems,” Abrahams said.</p><p>“He’d leave in a second. He can request a trade, be out of here, never wear green again and burn his stuff — and I don’t think he’d really care, to be honest with you. I’ve spent my entire life rooting for the Jets and I’ve loved so many players through thick and thin with them. I can’t get traded the next day.”</p></p></div></p></div>]]></content:encoded>
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