Trade: [LV/GB] Davante Adams for 2022 1st and 2nd round picks

[Voight]

When your qb wants 50 mil a season these are the concessions that get made. Packers get a couple picks but they aren’t nearly as valuable as Adams is right now. For their own sake they better make a couple good picks or else this could look really bad.

Irrelevant. Adams wanted to play in LV. Had little to do with his contract.

 

[Quid Pro Clowe]

Irrelevant. Adams wanted to play in LV. Had little to do with his contract.

Green Bay couldn’t offer the same contact Vegas did.

 

[Voight]

Green Bay couldn’t offer the same contact Vegas did.

Yes they could have. Would have taken some cap gymnastics but it was certainly possible.

 

[Gecklund]

Green Bay couldn’t offer the same contact Vegas did.

They did offer the same contract if not more.

 

[DaaaaB's]

Green Bay couldn’t offer the same contact Vegas did.

It's been reported that they offered more.

 

[hatterson]

The cap isn't real in the NFL. GB would have had no issues fitting him in.

 

[DueDiligence]

Packers not longer the favorite in the NFC.

 

[DueDiligence]

Irrelevant. Adams wanted to play in LV. Had little to do with his contract.

Adams was tired of the drama queen QB.

 

[Voight]

Adams was tired of the drama queen QB.

I doubt it, otherwise there would've been preexisting rumours. Besides, AFAIK he and Rodgers are pretty tight.

 

[Quid Pro Clowe]

Yes they could have. Would have taken some cap gymnastics but it was certainly possible.

Then I guess he wasn’t exactly clear about that to begin with. Assumed he just wanted more money and not to be franchised.

 

[GKJ]

Raiders out is after 3 years with $7.7m of dead cap

 

[Voight]

Then I guess he wasn’t exactly clear about that to begin with. Assumed he just wanted more money and not to be franchised.

If the rumours are true. he wanted to be a Raider. Childhood dream.

 

[Quid Pro Clowe]

If the rumours are true. he wanted to be a Raider. Childhood dream.

He and Carr were teammates at Fresno St, too.

 

[Voight]

He and Carr were teammates at Fresno St, too.

I read that as well. Sucks to see him go but no sense in crying over spilt milk

 

[McDavid is too whiny]

Packers will find a stud WR soon enough

They always do

From Lofton to Sharpe to Freeman to Driver to Jennings to Nelson to Adams

Cobb and Jones too

 

[McDavid is too whiny]

blargh

 

[SirClintonPortis]

Given that he already bought a house in Vegas a couple weeks before...this was no surprise internally to the Packers. Media kept their mouths shut(really easy to dox if they wanted to).

 

[EpochLink]

Only 8.2 in 2022 on the cap this year

 

[fin8]

Adams was tired of the drama queen QB.

That drama queen QB helped tremendously in making Adams filthy rich.

 

[LightningStorm]

Ever since the Love pick the Packers have gotten caught between the cracks of going all in on the present and building for the future.

They waste a R1 and R4 (by trading up) pick on Love in 2020 when they were in a contention window and when Rodgers's contract made it difficult to trade him the next 2 seasons. Rodgers had also stated his desire to play into his 40's, so the comparisons to when they drafted Rodgers during Favre annual offseason retirement speculation is a false equivalency. All this to say the timing of this pick was horribly botched.

Then Rodgers wins back to back MVP's and now they wanna keep him past Love's rookie deal. His recent contract was an all in move, yet having to trade Adams as a result limits how effective this all in move can be. Here they get really good draft capital to help their future, but by being forced to give up a prime superstar in Adams when going all in, they've been caught between the cracks again.

 

[Voight]

Ever since the Love pick the Packers have gotten caught between the cracks of going all in on the present and building for the future.

They waste a R1 and R4 (by trading up) pick on Love in 2020 when they were in a contention window and when Rodgers's contract made it difficult to trade him the next 2 seasons. Rodgers had also stated his desire to play into his 40's, so the comparisons to when they drafted Rodgers during Favre annual offseason retirement speculation is a false equivalency. All this to say the timing of this pick was horribly botched.

Then Rodgers wins back to back MVP's and now they wanna keep him past Love's rookie deal. His recent contract was an all in move, yet having to trade Adams as a result limits how effective this all in move can be. Here they get really good draft capital to help their future, but by being forced to give up a prime superstar in Adams when going all in, they've been caught between the cracks again.

Thats not why Adams was traded. They could have fit him in with the cap. He wanted to play in LV.

 

[Elvis P]

Thats not why Adams was traded. They could have fit him in with the cap. He wanted to play in LV.

Agreed. He chose Carr over Rodgers.

 

[LightningStorm]

Thats not why Adams was traded. They could have fit him in with the cap. He wanted to play in LV.

Upon further review I stand corrected. Regardless of the reason Adams left, I'm still surprised Rodgers decided to return to GB when he knew Adams was gone before he signed the contract.

 

[SirClintonPortis]

Upon further review I stand corrected. Regardless of the reason Adams left, I'm still surprised Rodgers decided to return to GB when he knew Adams was gone before he signed the contract.

NFC is a much easier conference on paper at the time. Brady had not unretired yet. Rams had to make changes and are not bringing their whole roster back.

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

Adams was tired of the drama queen QB.

He was probably sick of playing for a worthless incompetent GM that will never assemble a winner.