Raiders owner Mark Davis on Davante Adams trade to Jets: 'The football side is tough love, man'

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After sending a first- and second-round pick to the Packers for Adams in March 2022, the plan was for then-head coach Josh McDaniels, then-GM Dave Ziegler, and Adams’ best friend Derek Carr to find the kind of success any team would want. None of it went according to plan.

Now, all parties are gone.

With his hamstring now healthy, Adams should play plenty for the Jets this week, with a familiar system and his good friend Aaron Rodgers at QB. Adams restructured his current contract for 2024, but left the 2025 and 2026 contract years (worth $35.64 million each year) alone.

For him to stay on the Jets next year, those will have to be reworked — allowing Adams a say in what happens in 2025 and beyond. Those will be decisions for another day.

While Davis declined to explain what went wrong to lead to a trade, saying those were football decisions, he did state: “Unfortunate it didn’t work out. Only way I can sum it up.”

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