The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Jets Cut Davante Adams, Another Possible Wide Receiver Target For Texans Emerges

Episode Date: March 4, 2025

The New York Jets have released wide receiver Davante Adams, clearing $29.9 million in cap space. The move follows the departure of quarterback Aaron Rodgers and the permission given to wide receiver Allen Lazard to seek a trade before the start of the league year on March 12. With Tank Dell's 2025 season in question and Stefon Diggs becoming an unrestricted free agent when the market opens, will the Texans look to add another veteran wide receiver to complement Nico Collins?

Ross, I didn't catch part of your NFL rewanted. Did you officially have the Devante Adams been cut by the Jets? I did not. Okay, that came down within the last half hour. Yeah. We talked about it earlier about him going to be cut. It's official now. Yeah, it's official now.

So I'm sure all the Texan fan bloggers are like, let's go get Devontade's go. We can cuss and discuss it if you want to. I'm just, you know what? If you're going to go get somebody, just re-sign, Stefan Diggs, one-year deal, heavy incentives, as long as he's reasonable on his guarantee for the year. You know what you got.

I mean, Devonty's been bouncing around from team to team to team to last three years. He's 50% of the player he was two or three years ago. 11 games with the Jets, 850 yards, seven touchdowns. Devante Adams at $20 million a year or Stefan Diggs at 12 million. a year. Yeah, I wouldn't I wouldn't get any

Devante Adams of business. I don't think that's in if that's in the DNA of Casario. Because remember when the trade was made for Stefan Dix, he was still at a very high elite level. I mean, he had a little regression in his last

year in Buffalo, but it wasn't like he would fall off the map. Now, granted, this injury he has now may have obviously taken some wear and tear off of his tread off the tires here a little bit, but I just Devante's moved a bunch of the last handful of years and he's just going to cost a lot of money

do you think why to receivers Ross don't know their value like overestimate their value more than any other position in sports hmm no I wouldn't put it to do it because quarterbacks don't have to do it because quarterbacks we already kind of know what quarterbacks are getting because the crazy even for mid quarterbacks are getting crazy money we know that they're getting it Yeah, I would say, I mean, they're probably fourth, right? Highest paid would be quarterbacks, then probably tackles and edge rushers in whatever order.

And then probably receivers, they're getting paid a lot. But they have kind of like the same shelf life of running backs. Although the difference is at least why receivers get paid big time money as compared to the running backs who don't. And I think it's a more valuable position than running back is these days. like a dynamic number one wide receiver is harder to find than a number one running back. That's why the Texans were wise to settle up with Nico Collins this past off season. That was huge.

They bet on he took the money and the Texans bet that he would outperform it and he did and has. Yeah, yep. That was a good move by then, for sure. Great job, Nick Casario. Good job overall. That's great job. That's like one of the best ones. wide receiver contracts in football.

All right. And then I'll talk about his, talking about his negotiations with offensive alignment. Tell me how that's gone. What do you mean? Overpaid guys up there. Who? Laramie Tunsell, the pro bowler?

Overpaid. Okay. His insatiable thirst for mid-level first round picks and get moved up in the draft that played in college. The draft history has been spotty. Yeah. No, I think he's been a good

general manager. I don't think he's been elite. but he's top half of the league. I don't think he's embarrassing himself. He didn't let a player go for, he didn't pull a DeAndre Hopkins trade. I mean, I think he's got, he has a firm grasp of what the market is. I think the biggest issue for Casario as a general manager

is maybe perhaps talent evaluation. And that's not necessarily him per se, although he's got, he's the one that has to make the pick. It might be the people underneath him. But I think his, I wasn't a huge fan of the Stefan Diggs, renegotiation and chopping the last couple of years off the contract,

especially for what you gave up. But as you part up many times, it was about a, let's go win the whole damn thing next year, or last year, which is now this year. Yeah, they tried. Didn't work. You know. Camarie last year was a good pick.

Kabari was good. Derek Stingley's been a great pick. Had a better season than Sauce Gardner. I was still able to take it sauce, and I'm on the record for that, and I still think I'm winning on that. But it's not like Stingley's not, and Stingley's performing.

Literally first team all pro. Yeah, it's fine. It's pretty good. Pretty good. But there was a better player two years ago, the year before that. And why I'm talking about MacBron. I don't know why you're doing that. I don't know why we do this every time, but it's fine.

Will Anderson, good pick? C.J. Shail and good pick? Yep. Jalen Petrie, good, not great. I would say really good pick. Where was he taken? Second or third round? Can't tackle in space, better than A, he's great.

He can tackle. What do you mean? That's what he's good at. He's not a coverage guy. Oh, I was mixing him up. Mixing him about other safeties. Yeah, Petrie's okay. Peetre's really good.

He's a plus player. They missed him big time. Al Javier's been okay as long as he behaves himself. Aziz Al Javier when he's not getting suspended for truck sticking Trevor Lawrence. Yeah. No, I think that in terms of security, I think the coach is very secure in his spot. the general manager is very secure in his spot and there's very few teams in the NFL that can have that. I mean, who has that right now?

Kansas City with their situation. Philadelphia is probably doing pretty good right now. Although Philadelphia had to fire a pair of coordiners last year to make that. You're winning a Super Bowl buys you some time. It does buy you some time. Who else is really super secure? I mean, who are the elite?

I mean, giants know, bears know. They just made a change. Cowboys just made a change No Jerry Jones is the most secure guy in football I'm talking about the head coach GM combos Well he'll be there

Jerry Jones will be there as long as he wants