Raiders wideout Davante Adams continues to reward his former Packers quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, after the dynamic duo cut up this offseason.
“It was wonderful man,” Adams stated of his time enjoying with Rodgers throughout an look on “The Pivot” podcast. “I don’t low cost something that Aaron was capable of do for me as a result of he’s one of the best quarterback, in my view, to play this sport.
“What he did for me was not nearly the kind of balls that he threw, or nice again shoulder or no matter. He had the Michael Jordan impact. … [He’s] gonna make you play higher,” Adams stated. “He’s gonna deliver out your finest simply by being on the sphere.”
Adams additionally defined that when Rodgers had day off in the course of the Packers’ OTAs, the workforce wasn’t the identical with out the quarterback below middle.
“He was an awesome chief, nevertheless it was extra so nearly — you'd all the time discover in OTAs, from time to time a man that’s in his fifteenth 12 months or no matter, they get days off in OTAs, and there can be occasions he wasn’t training and you'd simply discover folks begin to not fall off, not training arduous,” Adams recalled. “But it surely wasn’t the identical as when Aaron is on the market.”
Adams and Rodgers had performed collectively since 2014, earlier than the Packers traded Adams to the Raiders in March for a pair of draft picks. The wideout signed a document five-year, $141.25 million take care of Las Vegas, the place he reunited with quarterback Derek Carr, his former Fresno State teammate.
On the time, Rodgers signed a three-year, $150 million contract extension to stay with Inexperienced Bay after he contemplated retiring.
Throughout “The Pivot” podcast episode, Adams stated Carr is “extraordinarily” underrated, and that his focus is on profitable a Tremendous Bowl with Las Vegas.
“I ain’t come right here simply to be cute and hang around with Derek,” Adams stated. “I wanna get that trophy on the finish of the 12 months.”
The Raiders go to the Chargers in Los Angeles in Week 1.
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