Davante Adams’ short tenure with the Jets hasn’t gone the way the involved parties had hoped.
Sunday’s 28-27 loss to the Indianapolis Colts dropped the Jets’ record to 1-4 since they acquired Adams in a long-anticipated trade with the Las Vegas Raiders.
That loss proved to be the final straw for general manager Joe Douglas, whom the Jets fired Tuesday after falling to 3-8 overall.
But Adams says he has no regrets about being traded to the Jets amid their disappointing season.
“I don’t live my life like that,” Adams said Wednesday on FanDuel TV’s “Up & Adams.”
“Hindsight’s always 20/20, so you can sit here and look at it now and say, ‘Oh, I could have maybe stayed there. I would’ve been more comfortable. I wouldn’t have had to move,’ and all this stuff, but for me, it’s about going with my gut in my life. That’s how I make my decisions. I live with them.”
The Jets were 2-4 when they traded for Adams, a six-time Pro Bowl wide receiver who spent eight seasons with quarterback Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay.
Speculation that the star wideout would be traded to the Jets began last year, shortly after they acquired Rodgers from the Packers. But Adams remained with Vegas in 2023, recording 103 receptions and 1,144 yards despite a revolving door of Raiders quarterbacks.
“I don’t regret not going [to the Jets] earlier, because I really felt like I wanted to be a Raider and I wanted to really give it everything that I could to stay there and rock it out with my teammates while I was there,” Adams told host Kay Adams.
“And then there came a point where I realized that wasn’t where my heart was, and something needed to change, and this was the change that I wanted, and the change that I have to live with and make the most of.”
Rodgers, 40, and Adams, 31, have yet to replicate the consistency of their prior partnership in this second act. Adams has one touchdown through five games with the Jets and has not recorded a 100-yard performance.
His arrival came a week after the Jets fired head coach Robert Saleh. Douglas’ firing, meanwhile, led to speculation about whether Rodgers and Adams will be back with the team next season.
“Whether or not I’m here next year, I can’t determine that,” Adams said. “I’m not really thinking about next year. I’m thinking about trying to get a few more wins before we get out of here. If you’d bet me a million dollars, I would have taken the bet we would not have only had one victory right now.”
Adams described Douglas’ firing as “surprising, but it’s not,” stating that coaches and management are often held accountable when teams are winning.
“It’s not for me to say whether or not it’s the right thing to do or not,” Adams said. “I’m just getting here and I’m still learning the way things work in this building and the way things have been in this building.”
The Jets traded a 2025 conditional third-round pick to acquire Adams, who said being part of a Rodgers-led offense gives him more hope for success than he felt with the Raiders.
“We’re talking about playing with Aaron Rodgers here,” Adams said. “This isn’t like taking some crazy gamble.”
