I Have No Option But To Buy All The Raiders Stock After Finding Out Davante Adams Is An All-Time Grudge Guy
Ethan Miller. Getty Images.[Source] - IT'S HARD TO tell whether Davante Adams has an incredible memory or a penchant for grudges, but he can recite the name and draft position of every wide receiver that was chosen before him in the 2014 draft. ("They can't judge what a true dog is like on the field," he says.) He can probably come pretty close to giving you their statistics, too, and how they compare to his, which in most cases is poorly, some horrendously.
It's worth the rundown: Sammy Watkins at pick No. 4; Mike Evans at No. 7; Odell Beckham Jr. at 12; Brandin Cooks at 20; Kelvin Benjamin at 28; Marqise Lee at 39; Jordan Matthews at 42; Paul Richardson at 45; Adams at 53, the 21st pick of the second round. When he wasn't chosen on the first night of the draft, he instructed everyone at his East Palo Alto draft party -- there was an ESPN camera there, adding to the frustration -- to wear black on the second night. "That was the funeral right there," Adams says. "We were going to make sure everyone felt the wrath for not picking Davante Adams sooner."
Wearing black to the day you get drafted? Love it. I know this is also becoming a trend. Everyone can do the Tom Brady and rattle off players drafted in front of them. But that list isn't as egregious as some others - at least in terms of draft day stuff. But wearing a black? I can't get enough of that move. A day where you become a millionaire and still go in the second round. Nope, that's a day to start a grudge that's going on for 8 years. Makes me a bit jealous not to have him on my team. Every team in any sport needs a good grudge guy.
Now that I know this, I feel like my hands are tied. I'm going to be on the Raiders and buying their stock.
I know they have the entire AFC West to deal with. That division alone is fascinating enough for me. You have the Chargers with all these expectations. You have the Raiders with expectations. You have the Broncos landing Russell Wilson. Then you have the Chiefs, who are still the Chiefs even without Tyreek Hill. But the Raiders? They weren't anything special on offense. They were slightly above average - that's not an insult to Derek Carr, just how the stats lined up.
There's the obvious Carr-Adams connection, going back to Fresno State days. Derek Carr has basically spent the majority of his career trying to get Adams to the Raiders. He finally gets it. He finally has a No. 1 option who should be on the field. Combine that with Darren Waller and Hunter Renfrow and that's a pretty damn good top-3 to throw to.
Then there's this tradition:
He found out about the trade the old-fashioned way: through Twitter. Bears offensive coordinator Luke Getsy, a former assistant with the Packers, texted Adams a screenshot of a tweet breaking the news of the trade just as Heather Carr texted Devanne Adams the same news. "There were probably 100,000 people out there who knew I was on the Raiders before I did," Davante says. Derek Carr's recruitment campaign, a comprehensive strategy that began years before, had finally worked
.In reading this long form piece on Davante Adams he's apparently the newest one to find out this way. I get it from one side. Something leaks to the Schefter's or Cheah's of the world and it gets on Twitter. But you have an agent. You are Davante Adams. You're telling me no one happened to reach out to you first? That's where I always get twisted in these sort of stories.
Sidenote: Pretty rude for Carr's wife to text his wife. You gotta get a text message direct to you.
