Davante Adams flew from one struggling organization to another when he was traded midseason from the Las Vegas Raiders to the New York Jets.
Given his experience over the last 12 months, he was not taken aback when Gang Green general manager Joe Douglas was fired on Tuesday.
"It's surprising, but it's not, just because you know the way this game goes," Adams told Up and Adams on Wednesday. "When games aren't being won and things don't look the way that they were intended to look, something's gotta change."
A year ago, Adams was in Vegas when the Raiders fired head coach Josh McDaniels and general manager David Ziegler. The Jets fired head coach Robert Saleh on Oct. 8, a week before bringing Adams to town.
New York has gone 1-5 since the trade for Adams, including Sunday's home loss to the Indianapolis Colts.
"I wasn't technically here yet for the head coaching change here, but going through that in Vegas, when things aren't working, typically things get moved around," Adams added. "You've got to adjust some furniture. You kinda anticipate it coming just because of the scope of the season, and the way that we've been looking as a team. They've got to place the blame or put accountability on somebody, and oftentimes it winds up on the coach and the management, and that's kinda how the cookie crumbles.
"It's not for me to say whether it's the right thing to do or not. I'm just getting here, and I'm still learning about the way things work in this building and the way things have been in this building. So, I'm not here to talk about whether or not it was supposed to happen. I'm just saying it's typically how it goes."
Despite stepping into yet another unstable situation, Adams said he has no regrets about joining the Jets and getting another chance to play with Aaron Rodgers.
"No, I don't live my life like that," he said. "You'll drive yourself crazy. Hindsight's always 20-20. So you can sit here and look at it right now and say, 'Oh, I could've maybe stayed there, would've been more comfortable, wouldn't have had to move and all that stuff.' But for me, it's about going with my gut in my life, and that's how I make my decisions. I live with them. We'll roll the dice and see what happens. It's not really a gamble even in this situation. It's more of making ... it's almost like an inference. It's calculated based on growing up, playing with ... we're talking about playing with Aaron Rodgers here, too. This isn't like taking some crazy gamble going somewhere with some rookie that's unproven. Neither of us have played as good as we're capable of playing, but when you're rolling the dice, you'd hope that it's favoring you more. You got trick dice. It still might not work, but we're trying and doing everything we can and still going."
Given that Douglas was in the final year of his contract and unlikely to be brought back next season, as Adams noted, firing the GM at this stage in a 3-8 season is simply rearranging patio furniture in New Jersey as winter approaches.
The more interesting shuffling heading into 2025 is how deep the rebuild goes, with the futures of Rodgers, Adams and other veterans in question.
