Aaron since leaving Green Bay
and what was that goodbye like? Oh yeah, I mean we've talked
multiple times and, you know, we talked throughout the whole
process to and he was he was aware of,
You Know, Where I Stood and I was aware of where he stood and
we had talks just like what he said the other day he
mentioned, we had talks about his future. And what he what he
thinks is his duration in Green Bay or just football in
general. Would
look like and you know, that played into into my decision as
well because you know, where am I?
Career,
you know, and this isn't a shot at anybody. Any other
quarterbacks are, you know, on in Green Bay, you know, I love
Jordan love, especially he's a great guy. But, you know,
I just
I got I got aspirations of doing really, really big things
and being remembered and I just, you know, just wasn't
really a point in my career that I was willing to
sacrifice,
you know,
are not being there, you know, after a year or two. So
my decision was to be here and he respected that he understood
that you guys have Green Bay
offered this, Which is higher than what I was in all of that.
And and yeah, I'll say it was true.
Okay, it was true.
But like I said, there's much more that goes into it and
family is a big part of it for me. So geographically being
here. It makes it a lot easier for me to stay connected to my
family, you're around. And you know this is this isn't
year to or I'm not trying to
necessarily fight for a job or anything like that to where,
you know, you got to do what you got to do. You got to stay
out there, you know, I had the choice in the choice.
Or was for me to come here and
you know raise my family on the west coast and come out here and
have some fun in the sun.
Davante Adams talking about his decision to push for a trade
from the Green Bay, Packers to the Las Vegas writers. Just
another major example of how the NFL is, Shifting toward
a league, that
teams are finding ways to accommodate players who aren't happy
instead of saying to Davante Adams. Hey,
we'll use the franchise tag on. You got two choices, play for
us and make the franchise tag money or play for no one. We're
not going to trade you just because you want to be traded,
we're
Starting to see now teams willing
to accommodate players and understanding what it means
to keep players. Happy
and how that and and it's the line that Mike Tomlin uses all
the time, Chris Ballard invokes it earlier this year, as I was
trying to get him to explain to
me why teams are moving in this direction
we want volunteers
not hostages and Green Bay decided
to get what they could for Davante Adams and let him
volunteer for a different team. So not a surprise and even
though he took great pains Shireen I mean to say that this
isn't about Jordan love.
Yeah, he did. Say, I'm looking at one or two more years with
Aaron Rodgers,
and I wasn't comfortable with that. So
maybe that's all that needs to be said about what he thinks of
Jordan love.
That's the biggest thing I took out of what he said, Mike was
the Jordan love quote and as much as he tried to downplay,
I love Jordan love. This was about Jordan Loft
because he sees the end of Aaron Rodgers career
and he wants to go somewhere with the quarterback who he
knows, obviously he knows Derek Carr from college and that's
who he wanted to go back with him, play the rest of his
career with
and he doesn't think much of Jordan Lee. Of or to me, he
would have stayed in Green Bay to
spend another year. Two years, three years
with Aaron Rodgers and then go. Okay, well, Jordan loves taking
over whenever Erin leaves, so it's going to be just as good.
I really think that it's was an indictment of Jordan love that,
he doesn't think that much of Jordan, love. That's what
I took
out of this, Mike more than anything else.
And this, ongoing narrative that the Packers ultimately
offered more money than the Raiders did, the two points
that get Get overlooked in that regard. Number one, the Packers
didn't offer the money until basically. They were backed
into a corner
if they had put a huge offer on the table. November December,
while there was still a little bit of injury risk on Davante,
Adams, he possibly takes it,
he took the first extension from the Packers,
right? At the conclusion
of his first contract with the team. That was a year. They
didn't make it to the playoffs. It was a late December. Early
January, right. After the regular season.
Signed a big contract. If he wanted to push
his way to the Raiders, then
he could have. He took the offer, he took the sure thing.
It's one thing to take. The sure thing when there isn't,
another sure thing,
when you have to sure things to choose from, you can say, no.
Thank you to the Packers. And the other thing to the Packers
structure, they only guarantee money in the first year of
the deal,
there's no fully guaranteed money, beyond your one, that is
a flaw in their way of doing business. So, it's not truly
Apples to Apples. And
the Packers offer was too little
too late. Well, it wasn't too little it was
too late because the Raiders were on the scene
with a much better offer so
Sims. And I talked about this the other day,
as it relates to Rogers.
I think the Packers
did a great job of keeping Aaron Rodgers from realizing
that they were going to let Davante Adams leave until
Rogers made it clear. That he wasn't
because Rogers said himself,
he didn't know that Devon. He was leaving at the time he
decided to stay and you'll wonder if he makes a different
decision,
if he knows Davante. Adams is leaving.
Well, he very well could have Mike because
he's going to miss Davante Adams. There is no question
about that. When you look at the 123 catches 1500 yards 11
touchdowns last season, I mean, this was a great receiver
and I've talked a lot about the Tyreke, he'll deal. I think
that has a chance to be a lose-lose rather than as
the Vikings in and trading Stefon. Diggs. That was truly a win-win
deal when they ended up with Justin Jefferson.
I think the Tyree killed deal could be a lose-lose because
I think Tyree kill is going to miss Patrick Mahomes that maybe
gets Tom Brady next year and it works out. But for this year,
I think could be a lose-lose because
I think he's really going to miss
Patrick Mahomes and I think that the Chiefs are going to
miss Tyree kill on this deal, Mike. I think the Packers are
going to miss Davante Adams, more than Davante Adams is
going to miss the Packers,
I still think he's going to get his catches
maybe as it quite have 1500 yards, but
I think he's really still going to do great things with Derek
Carr, even though, Derek Carr is not Aaron Rodgers and
I don't think anybody would argue that he is, but I think he
still will have really good numbers with the Raiders, but
I think the Packers truly are going to miss Davante
Adams, that Davante Adams.
Wouldn't we be talking
about the Packers, along with the Rams in the box
right now? We're kind of saying, well, maybe it's
the Packers, maybe some of these receivers develop, we don't
know. So if they had to
The Adams I think I would put them right there alongside
the Rams and the boxes of contender and they don't have
him. Now,
there's still people out there who insist the Packers will be
fine without Davante Adams
and maybe they, maybe they, maybe they will. But
that, that really downplays, the significance of having
the kind of receiver that you have to game plan against as
a defense, you know, it's kind of the same narrative, the Chiefs
are using, we're going to spread the ball around.
More. Well of course you will because you've lost your number
one. Receiver, in the difference is
you don't have a guy that's going to strike fear in
the hearts of the defense. It's going to force
that the coverage to be shifted toward him and open everything
up for the other guys. It puts more pressure on
the quarterback to spot the open man. Then if you
know in a situation from the pre-snap, look that Davante
Adams or Tyree kill is going to be double cover and it's going
to open something up on the other side of the field where,
you know, someone's going to be in single coverage and they
shake their guy at the line of scrimmage and they're open. And
that's that because they're only being
covered by one man,
it's that simple.
It's going to be a challenge for the Packers
just like it's going to be a challenge for
the