#Jamal Adams, Pete Carroll are all smiles with Seahawks after Jets trade

The disgruntled former Jets safety was positively aglow in a photo captured by Seahawks beat writer Gregg Bell at practice on Wednesday, which has in turn made head coach Pete Carroll quite happy.

“Well, brings a smile to my face,” Carroll said of Adams via The News Tribune. “He has really high expectations on what he is going to bring to the team, how he’s going to help out. But he also has a really cool thought about it and approach about it, that he knows he has to earn it every step of the way.

“It’s a great combination. He’s not too full of himself. He wants to be a great player — but he also wants to work for it. That’s all we can ask for.”

A happy Adams may be a painful sight for jilted Jets fans after an ugly fallout with the team this offseason. The 24-year-old star was dealt to the Seahawks in July along with a 2022 fourth-round pick in exchange for safety Bradley McDougald and a bounty of draft picks over the next two years. The transaction followed months of highly publicized discontent from the 2017 first-rounder, who requested a trade after long-term contract negotiations had stalled.

The Seahawks secondary — now comprised of Adams, safety Quandre Diggs and cornerbacks Shaquill Griffin, Tre Flowers and Quinton Dunbar — will need to step up from last season’s performance. After the departure of “Legion of Boom” free safety and seven-time Pro Bowler Earl Thomas in 2019, the unit finished 27th defending against the pass.

“First off, I want to say that I respect every guy that was in the ‘Legion of Boom,’” Adams said previously. “I used to watch those guys, from Earl to Chance to [Richard Sherman], just all throughout college. … So I have so much respect for those guys.

“But, you know, again, their chapter is over with. And we have to, as a defensive group and as a defensive-back group, we have to create our own legacy, right?”

Adams, whose fifth-year option was picked up by the Jets in April, will be under contract until the end of the 2021 season.

Since the trade, he has stated he wants to retire as a member of the Seahawks, a statement that may ring hollow after he had stated the same about the Jets.

“The plan is to retire [in Seattle], you know what I mean? That is my plan,” the two-time Pro Bowler said shortly after the trade.

Adams and the Seahawks have agreed to table the discussion of a long-term contract until next season — a luxury he didn’t seem willing to give the Jets — whereupon he will likely seek a deal to make him the highest-paid safety in the NFL.

“I just know that he is the real deal. You can see it on film. You can see it when you meet him. And he gets along really well,” Carroll said. “He’s really sharp. He’s really competitive, in that he cares. He wants to know all the details. He wants to be corrected. He wants to be helped, taught, coached and all that. He’s got the kind of focus — he’s got a unique focus — that some great players we’ve had have really demonstrated.”