The 2024 season was nothing short of a disaster for the New York Jets. They went all-in with four-time NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers in the hopes they would finally end their decades-long playoff drought.
That included bringing some of Rodgers’ old friends to the organization, even if it meant giving up significant assets to do so.
All-Pro wideout Davante Adams was traded to New York midway through the 2024 season. Despite his arrival, Adams did little to help turn the tide in the Jets’ five-win season.
Now, he’s looking to join Rodgers in bashing his former team.
Davante Adams Speaks Out On Jets Tenure
New York released both Adams and Rodgers to kick off the offseason. Adams found a new home relatively quickly after signing a free agent deal with the Los Angeles Rams.
Just last week, it was Rodgers who went out of his to trash the Jets and how they handled his departure. Now, it was Adam’s turn to break down the struggles that he saw in Florham Park.
Following his mere 11 games with the team, Adams spoke with The Athletic’s Michael Silver for an interview to break down how things went poorly for him with the Jets.
“The leader in me likes to think that if I was there earlier, I could have had a bigger impact and maybe changed some things — just the morale of the team, getting guys used to winning and that different type of culture, just kind of shifting that a little bit earlier,” Adams said. “But getting there Oct. 15th is not an ideal time to make too many changes.”
The former Packer and Raider caught 67 passes for 854 yards and seven touchdowns. His emergence and immediate impact left a sour taste in the mouth of Jets star Garrett Wilson while the team tried to split targets late in the year.
Adams later called both the Jets and his former team, the Raiders, “dysfunctional” organizations.
“Well, first I’ve got to make sure it’s not me,” Adams said about joining the Rams. “So, we’re going to get over there and see. If it gets dysfunctional, it means that I was the one making those organizations [the Jets and Raiders] dysfunctional.”
His experiences with both of those struggling teams left the future Hall-of-Famer looking for ways to return to a competent organization, according to the report from Silver.
“In the wake of dismal experiences with the Las Vegas Raiders and New York Jets, Adams was hell-bent on joining a stable organization accustomed to success — and affirming that he’s not a catalyst for toxicity,” Silver said.
