Davante Adams has been away from the Raiders since the middle of October, but two months has not been enough time to slow down his talking about his time in Las Vegas.
Despite the terrible season he and the New York Jets are having, Adams continues to make comments about how much worse he had it with the Raiders.
“It’s really frustrating, but it was the right thing to do,” Adams said on the Up and Adams Show this week about his decision to leave the Raiders for the Jets. “It made sense. Nobody can look at this move and say it made more sense for me to stay in Vegas in the situation I was in there. If they do, then they just hatin’ and just talking like how they do.”
“If you look at the numbers,” he continued, “it’s like if you going to war and somebody saying you got a knife and everybody else got rifles, and then somebody finds a rifle and they hand you a rifle… so you start going and you go to shoot the rifle, and it jams up. That’s like saying, ‘Ah… I should have just kept the knife.’ No, you did the right thing by grabbing the rifle, it just didn’t work the way you intended it to. Sometimes that happens and you got to live with that.”
While Davante continues to take shots at his former team, it sounds like some of his old friends in Las Vegas have not been appreciating his comments.
Sports Illustrated insider Hondo Carpenter talked about that dynamic this week, and said Adams has begun to alienate himself to some in the league with his weekly talking points about the Raiders.
“Players don’t really spend a lot of time worried about the fans, but they do care about what other players in the league think, and I can tell you every time Davante opens his mouth, he’s alienating people who are in this league that no longer respect him,” Carpenter said this week on the Las Vegas Raiders Insider podcast.
“I got his comments sent to me from someone in the NFL. I’m not going to say who or what team, but I don’t think it would be too difficult to figure out what team it is,” Carpenter continued. “In my opinion… He was coddled in Vegas. He came in the alleged superstar, yada, yada, yada… got treated like gold, and even when he didn’t treat this organization like gold or his teammates like gold, he was treated great.”
Looking ahead, Adams is all but guaranteed to enter free agency after the season if he doesn’t agree to rework his contract with the Jets. Adams is on the books for $35.64 million in 2025 and 2026, and based on his production, he isn’t worth half that amount at this stage in his career.
Maybe Adams will follow Aaron Rodgers to a new city, but you can bet all your money that city isn’t going to be Las Vegas.
x: @raidersbeat
Stop already with the DaVante Adams crap articles. This is the last one that I will read. He is NOT a Raider and this is NOT the Jet’s Beat as far as I know. Adams is a pimple on the butt. He didn’t make us better. He is ugly to look at. He is still trying to hurt the team. And he is all behind us know.
Enough already.
Nobody was more excited to get DA on the raiders than me, but what a disappointment he ended up being. He was supposed to be the raiders rifle. Does he not get that? That’s why you got all the money! The jets had the qb, but the raiders wr/te combination is just as good if not better. He was supposed to be the guy that we could count on to make big, game winning plays. Like a j jefferson. Instead he dropped numerous 3rd down passes, killing drives, and hardly ever created separation. The offense hasn’t been a any worse since he left, he literally made no impact on the raiders or the jets.
Why are we still talking about this guy?
Who cares about DIVAnte “has been ” Adams 😂 Move on dude you sound like a middle school girl !
I never wanted him. He was talented at the time, but I wanted to move on from Carr, since we were bringing in a new regime. What better time to blow up the the stagnate QB position? Instead they pacified Carr by bringing his buddy into LV, and trading the number one pick to do it. (Not a good move if your team has no depth) Then handcuffed him with a one year prove it deal. {WTF?}. That’s when we knew that McDaniels days were numbered. Dramante Adams ends up being another rent-a-raide. That Once a Raider, Always a Raider may apply to DC, but make sure you leave your Chulupa buddy home.
Wasn’t Hondo Carpenter one of Ben Cartwright’s sons on Bonanza?
Ahhh 🥱 yawn, another day and another bashing on his former team. The pathetic life of a player gone downhill. Probably mad that he went to gang green to unite with Humpty Dumpty.
It’s Adams discontent led to Garoppolo leaving when in fact his record with the Raiders would be much appreciated now. Adams is over targeted in NY because of his ego and missing balls there too. Who’s at fault?