Former Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams forced his way out of Las Vegas and now he’s only a matter of weeks from forcing his way out of New York.
On Sunday, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport said Adams made a point to maintain his contract leverage with the Jets so he could control his situation in the offseason. If things don’t go well in New York – which they have not – Adams can refuse to restructure his deal and the Jets will have no choice but to release him.
Adams is on the books for $35.64 million in 2025 and 2026, and based on his production, he is aware that his value is only a fraction of that amount. The former All-Pro receiver isn’t happy in New York, and it’s a virtual guarantee this pal Aaron Rodgers will be finding a new team or retiring after the season.
Adams and Rodgers have been taking subtle shots at the organization for the past couple of weeks and it was Adams who stepped to the microphone on Tuesday. Adams appeared on the Up and Adams Show on Tuesday and was asked a pointed question about the Jets by host Kay Adams.
“I’m getting the sense that you don’t feel like you can win there. That the [Jets] can’t win,” Kay Adams said in a question to Davante.
“Well, not this year. That’s for sure,” Adams responded. “Every year is a new year, and it takes a new year, a new chance to turn things around, so I’m not saying this organization is just cursed forever…”
From there, Adams circled back to the Raiders.
“It’s really frustrating, but it was the right thing to do,” Adams added about his decision to leave the Raiders. “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.”
Davante Adams gave this analogy about leaving the Raiders for the Jets but not being able to win in NY 👀
"It's just like you're going to war... but you got a knife and everybody else got a rifle. And somebody hands you a rifle... And you go to shoot the rifle and it jams up...… pic.twitter.com/m3vGngOHlH— Up & Adams (@UpAndAdamsShow) December 10, 2024
For the second week in a row, Adams has brought up the Raiders without being provoked or asked about them.
He called the Raiders situation “helpless and hopeless” while he was there, and last week said no one knows what he was going through in Las Vegas.
“[I’m] extremely disappointed in the win-loss column, but as far as making the move, I don’t regret it. Not even one bit,” Adams told members of the media last week. “Nobody really, period, knows what I was going through and knows the reasons why it had to be this way.”
