Jets Release WR Davante Adams, Bill Belichick/North Carolina Hard Knocks Status + Who Will The Steelers Make Their Starter in 2025? (Hour 2)

PFT Live with Mike Florio

Mike Florio

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Hour 2: Mike Florio (@ProFootballTalk) and Chris Simms (@CSimmsQB) discuss latest news in NFL including the Jets releasing Davante Adams, Hard Knocks not featuring North Carolina and Bill Belichick, and who the Steelers will make their starter for 2025.

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0:00.0	All right. PFT Live, Wednesday edition.
0:06.5	And remember the other day when I was saying there's no freaking way that Jets are going to trade Devonte Adams.
0:14.5	And I was contemplating saying I'd shave my head if it happened, like I'd eat a shoe if it happened, and I didn't
0:23.2	have the guts to do it. Boy, in hindsight, I wish I had because they've cut him. Now, to their
0:28.5	credit, they cut him a week early, so he gets a little head start on the open market. And some
0:34.2	would say, well, wait, what about the compensatory draft picks? There's no compensatory draft picks when you cut a guy.
0:41.2	That's the key.
0:42.3	You're going to cut him anyway before the start of the league year.
0:44.8	Cut him now.
0:45.6	Give him a chance to see what else is out there.
0:48.2	So no.
0:48.8	And like, I saw a lot of I told you so's yesterday on social media.
0:55.5	About what?
0:56.8	About, y'all, they were going to, you know, yeah.
0:59.5	Oh, hey, I reported the other day that they're going to cut Devante Adams.
1:02.7	He was always going to get cut.
1:05.8	He was always going to get cut.
1:08.4	This contract was not going to continue at $35.64 million.
1:12.9	This was the phony baloney bull crap back end to pump the average of $28 million a year.
1:18.7	The best case scenario for him and a team who wanted to stay together,
1:22.7	whether it was the Raiders, the Jets, would have been,
1:24.7	okay, we got to do something here.
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