Red-line to red-eye: Davante Adams sought 2025 Aaron Rodgers condition prior to Jets trade

A month ago, the Jets were 2-4 after Aaron Rodgers called out Mike Williams for running the wrong red-line route. An hour later, Rodgers was on the phone with Davante Adams, who revealed he was on a red-eye flight from Las Vegas. But before the All-Pro receiver boarded that plane, he sought assurances his former Packers quarterback would be in a Jets uniform next season.

“One league source familiar with the Adams trade told Yahoo Sports last week that the wideout agreed to be traded to the Jets with the condition that Rodgers would stick around through 2025,” wrote NFL insider Charles Robinson on Monday, noting that the guarantee Adams received came before the Jets would lose three of their next four games.

Now, Robinson said, the Jets (3-7) might not want either player in 2025. But before that decision is made, the Jets need to determine who’s going to make it. New York has already fired head coach Robert Saleh, and general manager Joe Douglas is in the final year of his contract. And, whether the Jets get their band back together for another tour in 2025 depends on something that affected millions of Americans on Nov. 5 – and it wasn’t the NFL’s trade deadline.

“For Rodgers and Adams to be back,” Robinson wrote, “there would need to be some serious clarification of who is at the controls in 2025. And that might have been muddied by the presidential election, with multiple sources inside the Jets expecting that team owner Woody Johnson will again be taking some kind of post in Donald Trump’s future plans. That’s a lot of unknowns hanging in the balance.”

That’s an understatement. For now, New York can simply be where its landing gear is, focusing on the Colts (4-6) at MetLife Stadium on Sunday (1 p.m. ET, CBS).

Then, following their Week 12 bye, the Jets have only one remaining opponent currently with a winning record, Week 17 at Buffalo (8-2). In all seriousness, stranger things have happened in the NFL than the Jets potentially finishing the year on a successful run.

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