Davante Adams is on the market in a very thin free agency class. Should the Texans be interested? The Drive talked about it here.
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00:00Sources say that the Jets are continuing their overhaul as they bring in their new head coach
00:07and changing up their entire staff and going in a new direction.
00:13They are releasing their wide receiver who they traded a ton for
00:18in the middle of last season, Devontae Adams.
00:22He is going to be on the block.
00:24Clint, we've talked since the season ended.
00:28One of the priority spots for the Texans is another receiver or two
00:34to go along with Niko Collins.
00:36Because right now it's Niko, it's Jon Mechie, and it's Hutch.
00:41How would you feel – we saw Debo was going, and we know you really liked the Debo thing.
00:45I did too. Many of you didn't. Some of you did.
00:49What about Devontae Adams, 32 years old, will be 33 in December.
00:56How would you feel about that potential move?
00:59Because I've got to believe there's got to be at least a conversation
01:02if the Texans were in on Debo Samuel.
01:06I would at least believe they've turned over a stone to look at that one.
01:10What's your thoughts on that?
01:13Even really close to going to happen. I don't think they're going to even entertain it.
01:16You don't?
01:17No, I do not.
01:18But I do like the thought of pairing him with C.J. Stroud.
01:24And more importantly – or not more importantly, but as importantly –
01:28pairing him, him being Devontae Adams, with Nick Caley.
01:33A lot of the guys that we talk about – Diggs was one of them.
01:38The Cooper Cup would be one of them. I think Debo Samuel would be one of them.
01:44These are all guys that you need to move, you need to get creative with,
01:51you need to create for them.
01:57And that's great if you've got a good play designer and a good creator
02:02and somebody that has the feel and the ability to call those plays.
02:06If you want to simplify things for C.J. Stroud and Nick Caley,
02:11you put Devontae Adams opposite Nico Collins.
02:15What you have now is you've got two guys, big-bodied players,
02:19on both sides of the quarterback.
02:22And you're daring the defensive coordinator to close the middle of the field
02:28and add an extra defender to the box to stop the run
02:31or to stop the receivers over the tight end over the middle or whatever.
02:35You're daring them to do something other than a two-safety type defense
02:40at that point.
02:41You've got two guys outside that can beat you over the top.
02:46You've got one that's probably the best back-shoulder-catching wide receiver
02:49we've ever seen in Devontae Adams.
02:53You've got guys underneath with the slants, the quick game stuff.
02:57And I would say it's a move to me that would really be playing into C.J. Stroud,
03:04the pocket passer.
03:06We want to talk about C.J. Stroud and the legs and this and that.
03:09C.J. Stroud is not a guy that you design around his legs.
03:12C.J. Stroud is a guy that in a perfect world you set his ass back there
03:15seven to nine yards behind the center in a nice clean pocket,
03:19and you let him cook.
03:21You let him dice it up.
03:23It would simplify things for Nick Caley.
03:26It would simplify things for C.J. Stroud.
03:29It would play into the strengths of C.J. Stroud.
03:34I think it would be an unbelievable compliment opposite Nico Collins.
03:39So you like the thought of it?
03:43Assuming the money, because, I mean, look, he's damn near making it.
03:46Not the money, but what you would make it worth.
03:49Could I like Devontae Adams in Houston opposite Nico Collins?
03:53Absolutely.
03:54I'm going to get real good and turned on over there.
03:57You roll those two guys out there, I think C.J. Stroud gets better,
04:00Nick Caley, the biggest gamble that you've made,
04:03probably to damn sure in the D'Amico Ryan's era,
04:05the biggest gamble that you've made is Nick Caley coming in
04:08as the offensive coordinator.
04:09He gets better.
04:10Joe Mixon gets better.
04:12Your offensive line again gets better because now you've got guys that,
04:15I dare you to show me pressure and vacate the half safety
04:22to either Nico's side or Devontae's side.
04:25Yeah, play man in the red zone.
04:27You've got guys that can win one-on-one with their body,
04:33not with better than a lot of wide receivers do.
04:36So, yeah, hell yeah.
04:38From the text line is another Stefan Diggs without the attitude.
04:43Ending in 7-2, expound on that.
04:46Give me a little bit more of that.
04:47What do you mean by that, that he is aging or somebody that is productive?
04:52What do you mean?
04:53What do you mean?
04:54I'm just trying to get a little bit more from that text.
04:57I encourage everybody to go back
04:58and when New York got hot last year late in the season,
05:02look at some of the way he was playing.
05:04Look at some of the catches he was making.
05:06Go back and look in 23 with the Raiders when he wasn't with a knee issue.
05:12Some of the catches that he was making with freaking Aiden O'Connell
05:16and whoever else throwing the football to him.
05:18Yeah, I could get real excited about another big-bodied receiver
05:26being here with CJ and Nick Caley.
05:29Real quick from where you started, why do you think you don't have –
05:34it seems like your percentage level
05:38and thought that this could happen is extremely low.
05:42After everything you explained about the fit
05:45and how that would make this offense look,
05:47why do you think they wouldn't be involved in it
05:49if they were involved with Debo?
05:51Well, I think he's going to command $25 million a year in a multi-year deal,
05:57and I don't think Houston's going to commit to that.
05:5932, 33 years old, do you think Devontae Adams still gets that?
06:02I mean, he was 20, what, 22 two contracts ago.
06:06He was 28 this contract a year.
06:09Yeah, I think he's probably going – yeah, I think he fetches 25.
06:14The way the league's trending, everybody's getting paid more.
06:17I think he fetches 25 a year for two years.
06:21Yeah, I mean, I don't know what the market looks like.
06:23Obviously, the market – whoever needs a wide receiver of that level,
06:26it'll come to fruition.
06:28But you think it's money and multiple years?
06:30Yeah, I think – no, I wouldn't be opposed to it.
06:33I wouldn't be opposed to it.
06:35I mean, you got a steal in Nico Collins' contract right now,
06:38and I mean, you overpaid Dalton Schultz and Laramie Tunsil.
06:42Those are the two guys that are eating up your cap space
06:44on the offensive side of the football.
06:45Everything else is very reasonable.
06:46Yeah, I mean, I think there's room.
06:47If it's one or two years, then that's maybe something that they may be into.