Jets' panic trade for Davante Adams proves Bills broke them on Monday Night Football

But maybe this time listening to Aaron Rodgers will work!

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Buffalo Bills v New York Jets | Luke Hales/GettyImages

Stop me if you've heard this before, but the Jets are making headlines this morning.

A morning after the AFC East was more-or-less decided in the Bills' 23-20 win on Monday Night Football, the Jets decided that there wasn't enough chaos in their season yet. Credit where it's due: even the panic is bigger in New York City.

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The Jets decided to finally get around to making the move that every person on the planet expected them to, trading for Raiders' star wide receiver Davante Adams. In return, the Jets are sending Las Vegas a conditional third round pick that could, in theory, get as high as a second rounder. It's the type of trade that's a no-brainer for teams that are, you know, actually in Super Bowl contention. For the Jets, it's just a nice story that speaks to the perseverance of friendship! It's heartwarming to see Aaron Rodgers bring all his friends in to witness that last few sad years of his career in person.

And it gets better. When you look at the details of the trade, there's really only one surprising wrinkle – but it's a wrinkle that proves that the Bills truly broke them last night in front of a nationally televised audience.


Bills' win on Monday Night Football made Jets panic into paying a lot more for Davante Adams

Before Monday night, the general consensus on Adams was that any team that wanted to trade for him was refusing to pay his (albeit very high) salary. For as good as he still is, Adams is owed a lot of money over the next few years, especially considering he'll turn 32 this year. Teams were less hesitant to throw a third round pick at him, but the idea of paying him $72 million over the next two seasons was an understanbly large deal breaker.

That is, until whatever it is you want to call that Rodgers-Mike Williams deep ball attempt on the Jets' last possession of the night. In that moment it became abundantly clear that Rodgers and his wide receivers weren't on the same page, and it's not like Rodgers is going to "try and fix" that. Not when his friend is available! Like Adams being at the Jets' facility 15 minutes after the trade was announced, it's absolutely not a coincidence that the trade finally went through in the hours after that MNF moment.

So essentially, in the span of 20 seconds, Taron Johnson single-handedly got the Jets to move off their position and mortgage their immediate cap future for a 32-year old wide receiver. But I'm sure listening to Aaron Rodgers will work this time around.

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