Davante Adams Reveals “Dark Cloud” Hovering Over Raiders’ Locker Room

Since being traded from the Raiders to the Jets in October of last year, Davante Adams hasn’t been shy about sharing his feelings on his former team, and he fired another shot at the Silver & Black this week.

Comparing the culture in Los Angeles to what he experienced in three seasons with the Raiders, Adams didn’t mince words on Tuesday.

“Everybody’s in a good mood [with the Rams]. It’s not like a dark cloud over the building,” Adams told ESPN NFL Nation reporter Sarah Barshop. “And I’ve experienced that quite a bit over the last few years. So, it’s a glaring difference when you come into a building like this.”

Maybe Adams was lumping the New York experience in with the Raiders, but the “last few years” was undoubtedly a shot at the Raiders.

Last year, Adams justified his move to the Jets as a good decision, despite the fact that the Jets ended the season no better than the Raiders.

“It’s really frustrating, but it was the right thing to do,” Adams said of the move to New York on the Up and Adams Show. “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, 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.”

Adams may have forced his way out of Las Vegas last year, but the trade that sent the former All Pro wide receiver to New York did give the Raiders an additional third round pick in this year’ draft.

With the addition of Geno Smith, who the Raiders acquired with the no. 92 pick received from the Jets, it seems like there might be some hope that the dark cloud in Vegas has finally been lifted.