Nobody wants Reddick. He's over thirty, is holding out, wants a huge retirement paycheck, and isn't even really that special to begin with. He's way over-rating his market value. Guys like that are GM killahs. It's not like he's Julius Peppers or some shit. Why would Tom Telesco and the Raiders, of all teams, want him?
Or framing that all in another way that doesn't just cherry pick on people's in the moment feelings on the matter - in typical bad team philosophy and logic we obviously just need to triple down on a losing bet instead of potentially cutting our latter loses. Latter loses that people, always in that moment mind you, love to claim they "don't care about". But when the time actually comes they damn sure always do. Like i alluded to on the first page of this thread this concept idea that you can just add Danante into the current offense, and expect that to fix the fundamental issue at hand, is basically just catering to the willingly naive and/or stupid. It didn't essentially work before with adding a much bigger upgrade at QB, and it's not going to work now at WR. I'm ultimately not against trading for Davante, but let's be crystal clear honest with the surrounding reality on this. There should be no cheer for Woody, the FO or Rodgers at the end of this if it happens. As this trade has a lot more to do with throwing up the hail mary in the attempt to justify Nathaniel Hackett's job and existence here then it does with any genuine attempt to make this offense a meaningful amount better. There is only one way that latter is actually happening and it absolutely has to start with a firing. There is no shortcut around that. We need a competent offensive coach in that room more then we need anything else (including Aaron Rodgers himself).
Go get someone who can block for AR. Go get someone who can rush the passer. Adams is a band aid on a gunshot wound. The CS is terrible and dumbo Hackett won't know how to use Adams anyway, This franchise is a train wreck.
I think most people understand that acquiring Adams doesn't fix the Hackett problem, but it objectively does improve our chances of making a playoff run this year. WRs are extremely important and Rodgers/Wilson haven't been on the same page all season. There are multiple times each game where it looks like Wilson pretty clearly didn't run the right route. Teams that have the potential to make playoff runs mortgage the future to maximize the present all the time. It's a pretty established strategy with some merit.
