It’s been a forgettable season for Davante Adams, and any hopes he had of resurrecting his post-Raiders career with Aaron Rodgers seem to have evaporated in recent weeks, as well.
“What I’m worried about at this very moment is trying to make sure we pack the car seats for this trip that I’m going on, and that’s really all that I’m focused on,” Adams told Up and Adams host Kay Adams on Wednesday.
Davante was talking about getting away from football and enjoying the bye week, but he apparently had one more message on his week off for a fan harassing him on social media.
Tagging Adams to a story about his recent comments on feeling “helpless and hopeless” with the Raiders, a fan on X called Adams “an emotional a— dude” and a “b—ch.”
Adams talks a lot about how he doesn’t pay attention to what people are saying on social media, but this particular comment caught his attention.
This was Adams’ response according to the fan on X…
For the better part of two years, Adams was a fan favorite with the Raiders, but his final weeks with the team didn’t end well.
The details around Adams’ time with the Raiders have been discussed at length, but The Athletic‘s Vic Tafur offered a perspective a few weeks ago that embodies the sentiment of many Raider fans.
Tafur said he thinks Raider fans are justified in feeling like Adams quit on the team.
“When you quit on your team on a Victory Monday, I think that’s a really rare and weird thing,” Tafur said on the Just Win podcast. “The team is 2-2 [and] I think that’s an odd time to go into Pierce’s office and say ‘I can’t be here.’”
“Then my bigger problem really is the next day, he goes on the Up and Adams Show and kind of points the finger at Antonio Pierce saying with the Instagram post and [saying] we haven’t talked and I don’t know what that’s about when clearly he knew he asked for a trade the day before,” Tafur continued. “To me, it was pretty disingenuous of him. I just think some fans say he quit on the team and I can’t disagree with that.”
“Whatever his reasons were, like he was frustrated and that’s not what he signed up for and he hates the quarterbacks, but he did quit on the team. I think that’s factually accurate.”
Sports Illustrated insider Hondo Carpenter wrote a column last week about the events that led to Adams being traded to the Jets, and ESPN’s Paul Gutierrez said the first signs of trouble between Adams and the Raiders go all the way back to OTAs.
“The first sign of trouble this year was when Adams skipped voluntary OTAs,” ESPN’s Paul Gutierrez and Rich Cimini reported last month.
“Despite the Raiders installing a new offense under incoming offensive coordinator Luke Getsy (Adams had endorsed the hiring because they had worked together in Green Bay) and bringing in new quarterback Gardner Minshew. Adams posted a video on social media of him washing his car while his teammates were practicing.”
Additionally, Adams wasn’t happy the Raiders didn’t sign or draft the quarterback(s) he wanted in the offseason.
“Pierce wanted Adams to be more of a vocal leader this season,” Gutierrez and Cimini continued. “Adams… believed he had a voice in personnel matters and was all-in on the Raiders trading up to draft a top-tier QB like Jayden Daniels, or acquiring a more accomplished veteran like Justin Fields. But when the Raiders settled on Minshew and a returning O’Connell, frustration grew for Adams, team sources said.”
