Grant and Danny
Should Washington Trade For Davante Adams?
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But it's one of situations where I just keep my head down and keep doing my thing and, you know, let the ships fall where they may as it pertains to that. But I haven't, yeah, there's been no communication with anybody from the tapes since that became a thing. But, you know, it's kind of just like the weekly WhatsApp with Tay thing, you know, there's always some sort of drama. That was Devontay Adams with Kay Adams on the Adams Show. Welcome back, Grant and Danny on The Fan. They should do a podcast together called The Adams Family. You're welcome. Adams and Adams, I think he's on her show every week. I don't, it's like their version of Rogers with McAfee. I don't know what they call it. I don't know if the fact that their last name is the same. Has anything to do with the title of the segment? Don't really know. Haven't seen it, but there's that audio is from that segment. And the reason we played it for you is because Devontay Adams wants to be traded. That's the report from NFL Network today. He wants out the Raiders as we told you last hour are upset with him. Antonio Pierce, the head coach of the Raiders said without naming him that Devontay Adams made business decisions in the game that they played against the Panthers when they lost and he had four catches for 40 yards a couple of weeks ago. He didn't play against the Browns. He was injured, I guess, and so it was unavailable, but there was a post that he may have played his last down with the Raiders that the head coach of the team in Tony of Pierce liked. That's what the question was about from Kay Adams that he was responding to there. Trouble in paradise, obviously, remember, he agitated essentially, but forced his way off of the Green Bay Packers when Aaron Rodgers left. He went to the Raiders to play with Derek Carr was now in New Orleans. He's not happy there. Did you watch the Netflix show he was starring on? I watched a lot of it. Haven't gotten to the part where he's as much of a problem as everybody seems to say he was. Okay. So I haven't got there yet. It's like most of the season, like starting episode two and a half or three through eight. So I hope you enjoyed the first episode. Stick aside, he throughout the entire series of Netflix was not painted very well. I'm sure part of that is the editing process, but he was a gigantic pain in the butt to deal with like an absolute problem for that coaching staff. He advocated for the benching of Jimmy Garoppolo. He had some influence and some power, but he wanted Josh McDaniel's fired. He just seemed like a malcontent didn't come off very well. This is one of my favorite players in the league for a long, long time because I always thought he was kind of the anti diva wide receiver. And that clearly the last couple of years is just not been the case. He's not happy. Understandably. A lot of people that aren't happy in their job aren't good soldiers and it seems like he has not really fallen in line, but he's a six time pro bowler, a three time all pro, a French Hall of Famer, one of the best receivers of his era. And even last year in a quote unquote down year where they had bad quarterback play, he caught a hundred passes for a fourth consecutive season and he went for 1100 yards. He has gone for a thousand or more yards every single year, but one since 2017. So I say all this, Danny, to ask you with national analysts saying Washington's one of the teams that should be calling the Raiders about Adams. Your Mr. Go get a receiver. Go get a receiver. Go get a receiver. You broke records for how much you talked about that in the off season. How quickly would you pick up the phone to call the Raiders about the Vante? This would be more of a courtesy call, but I don't think this one makes a lot of sense for Washington. And I know that sounds crazy given the, you know, as you said, my viewpoints and my rhetoric, that was before they averaged 40 points again in the last two weeks. I was going to say, so this is a massive sea change for you because right before the season, you were desperate for them to trade for Brandon, I you because my to me was pretty simple. They had assets. They had salary cap space. They had draft picks available and they chose to do very little at a dire position of need that directly affects their quarterback. I thought that was a huge unforced error. And I post the video about this. I said it all day yesterday. I'm saying it today. I'll say this often as it comes up, I was wrong. I was 100% wrong. They don't need to go all in just yet on a guy that you're going to have to rework in terms of contract because the next two years in the, in the mid 40s in terms of salary cap hits. And that's just prohibitive. You'd have to rework a deal and I'm not necessarily that excited to do that for a guy that'll be 33. How much of your lack of interest in Demente Adams is his contract? That's a big part of it. So meaning you'll have to restructure or, you know, sound and do an extension. And now we're talking about doing that again for a guy that's about to be 33 years old. Yes. 32 and he's got a five year, $140 million contract. You could wiggle out of it the end of this year if you wanted to with 15.7 and dead money. And if you traded for him, I doubt you would take on all of that money. I would think the Raiders would have some type of penalty as well. So maybe it'd be a little bit less than that, but what would make more sense because he's under contract. And if you're trading for Adams, it's not for this season, you would then give him an extension and spread out the massive cap hits over more years. He did some void years on the back end. You could even lower the number more, but 44.1 is the cap hit each of the next two seasons, which is untenable. So you would have a multi-year extension, you know, he'd have four or five years left. Let's say on the deal till his age 37 season and he kicked a can down the road for a few years with a number one receiver. My interest in him is is very, very low. I would say almost zero. The money is a very small part of it for me. Maybe that's the difference. Number one, he's been a complete malcontent for the better part of a couple of years. I don't do that when I can avoid it. Number two, I don't think they run an offense where a guy like Devonta Adams is going to eat. I really don't believe that. Like the whole point of his annoyance on Netflix was if I'm not a part of a great offense by catching a lot of passes, I'm not happy essentially and I'm paraphrasing, but the gist was, you know, if we're never punting and scoring a lot and I never catch the ball, I can find a way to be okay, but I get paid to catch passes and if you're not giving me a chance to, I don't like that very much. But like this offense is about playing point guard. One week, it's going to be Noah Brown. The other week, it's going to be Alama de Zacchaeus. The beauty of having Terry McClellan is your number one, is that he never rocks the boat. When he's unhappy, he's just kind of quiet and he's not as smiley, you know, he's never going to say anything or bring a lot of attention negatively on himself or the team. And for two weeks, when the quarterback wasn't involving the receivers at all, Terry McClellan didn't mind it. He just said no problem. And then the week that he got to catch all the passes, he became a star again and he was happy to go lucky Terry. But I think bringing in an A-list wide receiver for this offense, the way they run the football a lot, throw the ball horizontally, the way Jaden Daniels operates kind of toward the sidelines, not so much middle of the field, it doesn't really make a lot of sense to me. I just don't see it as a big fit or even a necessity. And then you throw the money into the equation. I would say I have almost no interest. The fit part is interesting. I think part of this, why they're doing it this way is one part, it's the style. It's the offense to your point and they've, and where their weapons are. It's Echler, although he wasn't available this week, but it's, it's Echler, it's Earth's, it's underneath, it's quick hit stuff, et cetera. And that's what Kingsborough is going to major in. But when he had a true honest to God number one in Dondre Hopkins, he went for 1400 yards and I think nine or 10 touchdowns. So like to me, Adams, I think is still right now, I don't know what he's going to be in the year or two years or three, big receivers like that. I feel like they tend to age like big running backs and a lot of times they go off a cliff. But if you're legit and awesome, I bet you they find looks for you. You know, I think they're doing it this way, partly out of necessity, partly because they want to the thump and grind, so to speak. They want to hand the ball off a bunch and soften defenses up that way and utilize all the skillsets. But I don't know. You would think they want to do the thrill and the help situation. I think if you've got a number one receiver, things look different, meaning that guy will get the ball because he's just open all the time. When it comes to making plans, you are the best. 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