NFL News Trade for Davante Adams? [Mar 4 update: released]

[Patsfan1645]

I guess if you get Adams you have to take his partner in crime A-aron as our back up qb. I think I just vomited in my mouth typing this.

 

[Real fan 02]

Pros
- still a top WR, high end #2 at worst
- unlikely to come to NE as a free agent
- brings credibility to team, he is a star and well respected across the league
- won’t take much and late round draft picks are basically useless
- Pats have the money
- if Higgins gets tagged the free agent WR market is junk
- history of high level performance in cold weather (Green Bay)

Cons
- huge cap
- getting older

Maybe try a trade and contract redo,

https://overthecap.com/player

Isn't adams expected to be released??

 

[Real fan 02]

No way I want to take that salary and he wouldn't be my first choice but if he's cut I think you have to consider it. We pretty much have to consider anything.

Jets won't find a trade partner for Davante Adams

From the moment receiver Davante Adams signed his current contract three years ago, it was always obvious that, come 2025, something had to give.

www.nbcsports.com

 

[Lansdowne]

Too many things working against the Pats for it to happen. He's most likely getting cut and he's not choosing New England. This is not a preferred destination for free agents for the most part and it's always been this way. Derrick Mason was a free agent in 2005 about to enter his age 31 season. The Pats were coming off 3 SB titles in 4 seasons. A dynasty. But according to Mason, his wife preferred to live in Baltimore (which, LOL at that) and he took less money to play for the Ravens than what the Pats were offering. Now look at Davante Adams, who left the Packers to play with his buddies Derek Carr (Raiders) and Aaron Rodgers (Jets). It didn't pan out, but he still wants to play for a contender. He's not picking a team with a swiss cheese roster that plays in a bitter cold climate. I know we love Maye and Vrabel here, but there's plenty of other NFL teams out there with good QB's and HC's and they have better teams than us right now.

I hope the Pats can get creative and find a solution at WR this offseason. But it's not going to come easy, and I don't think there's a realistic path for Adams coming here.

 

[Rob0729]

D-Hop this year for KC was the definition of cooked. Thats what toast looks like.

And it is your OPINION that Adams is there. You could be right. Or you could be dead wrong.

 

[RobertWeathers]

And it is your OPINION that Adams is there. You could be right. Or you could be dead wrong.

No thats the other poster. I don't think Adams is toast.

 

[Rob0729]

No thats the other poster. I don't think Adams is toast.

Sorry, my bad. Lost track of the thread and who is making what argument.

 

[MrTibbs]

Pros
- still a top WR, high end #2 at worst
- unlikely to come to NE as a free agent
- brings credibility to team, he is a star and well respected across the league
- won’t take much and late round draft picks are basically useless
- Pats have the money
- if Higgins gets tagged the free agent WR market is junk
- history of high level performance in cold weather (Green Bay)

Cons
- huge cap
- getting older

Maybe try a trade and contract redo,

https://overthecap.com/player

 

[MrTibbs]

Pros
- still a top WR, high end #2 at worst
- unlikely to come to NE as a free agent
- brings credibility to team, he is a star and well respected across the league
- won’t take much and late round draft picks are basically useless
- Pats have the money
- if Higgins gets tagged the free agent WR market is junk
- history of high level performance in cold weather (Green Bay)

Cons
- huge cap
- getting older

Maybe try a trade and contract redo,

https://overthecap.com/player

No way on earth you trade for a guy they have to cut. He's owed $70 million over the next two years. Why would you help a division opponent with extra draft capital. You consider him when he's a free agent.

 

[BUSTAMOVE]

Only as a FA with a reduced contract

 

[scott99]

We could scoop him up in free agency if they want, he won’t be traded, costs too much.

 

[TheRainMaker]

You don't get empty yards and TDs in the NFL without being a good player.

Of course he isn't what he was 5 years ago. Who cares. Draft a WR but you need a vet or two that can be that stop-gap

I don't get how they are empty yards. Yards are yards unless they come in garbage time which I don't think is necessarily the case.

And I said he isn't the player he once was and I said odds are good the Pats aren't getting him even if they want him since he has a desire to play on the West Coast and/or with Rodgers.

I am just contradicting your opinion that he is toast. And at this point, it is an opinion.

Jakobi Meyers is a good example of empty yards. He had zero impact in NE. Teams would allow him to get his short yard passes. But once the Pats got into 3rd in long or got to the red zone, they were dead to rights. Adams was supposed to be the savoir of all the Jets problems this season, but he clearly wasn't. That's just what I see with Adams. Rodgers is also cooked.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Jakobi Meyers is a good example of empty yards. He had zero impact in NE. Teams would allow him to get his short yard passes. But once the Pats got into 3rd in long or got to the red zone, they were dead to rights. Adams was supposed to be the savoir of all the Jets problems this season, but he clearly wasn't. That's just what I see with Adams. Rodgers is also cooked.

There is no such thing as a receiver with "empty yards".

You either gain yards that a) get you closer to a 1st down b) get a 1st down or c) a TD. All have value.

 

[Rob0729]

Jakobi Meyers is a good example of empty yards. He had zero impact in NE. Teams would allow him to get his short yard passes. But once the Pats got into 3rd in long or got to the red zone, they were dead to rights. Adams was supposed to be the savoir of all the Jets problems this season, but he clearly wasn't. That's just what I see with Adams. Rodgers is also cooked.

Adams had as much impact on the Jets as Garrett Wilson did when they both played together last year. Actually, Adams out performed Wilson during the period they played together. Perhaps the Jets should cut Wilson. All the guy produces is empty yards.

And Adams wasn't going to be the savior of the Jets' problems last year. It was a move to appease Rodgers who was a shell of former self last year.

And Meyers was a reliable first down producing receiver when he was with the Patriots. He wasn't dynamic, but he produced first downs when the Patriots needed them in 2021. That year, he converted 42 first downs on 83 receptions. That is far from empty yards.

 

[TheRainMaker]

Adams had as much impact on the Jets as Garrett Wilson did when they both played together last year. Actually, Adams out performed Wilson during the period they played together. Perhaps the Jets should cut Wilson. All the guy produces is empty yards.

And Adams wasn't going to be the savior of the Jets' problems last year. It was a move to appease Rodgers who was a shell of former self last year.

And Meyers was a reliable first down producing receiver when he was with the Patriots. He wasn't dynamic, but he produced first downs when the Patriots needed them in 2021. That year, he converted 42 first downs on 83 receptions. That is far from empty yards.

Wilson is very overrated. He's another good example of empty yards.

 

[Rob0729]

Wilson is very overrated. He's another good example of empty yards.

Wilson had over 1100 yards and 7 TDs last year. I think you are confusing the talent and impact of a WR and the production of the overall offense.

If you have a crap o-line and a mediocre QB, the WR is likely to produce "empty yards" no matter how good the WR is. I guarantee you if Wilson was playing in say Buffalo, he would be a stud WR.

 

[TheRainMaker]

Wilson had over 1100 yards and 7 TDs last year. I think you are confusing the talent and impact of a WR and the production of the overall offense.

If you have a crap o-line and a mediocre QB, the WR is likely to produce "empty yards" no matter how good the WR is. I guarantee you if Wilson was playing in say Buffalo, he would be a stud WR.

We see him plenty every year and I don't see the hype.

 

[Rob0729]

We see him plenty every year and I don't see the hype.

He's on a bad team with no QB. We have never seen his full potential. He may never be what the hype is, but he is also a victim of the team around him. And Rodgers phased him out because they hate each other.

 

[TheRainMaker]

He's on a bad team with no QB. We have never seen his full potential. He may never be what the hype is, but he is also a victim of the team around him. And Rodgers phased him out because they hate each other.

Plenty of WR's have shown more with bad QB's and have had impacts. Wilson just isn't that guy for me.

 

[FreeTedWilliams]