Raiders' WR Adams Talks State of the Silver and Black

The Las Vegas Raiders (1-1) return home to Allegiant Stadium this Sunday to take on the Pittsburgh Steelers (1-1), and after practice, wide receiver Davante Adams held his weekly press conference.

You can watch the entire press conference below and read the transcript as well:

Wide Receiver Davante Adams

Q: How are you feeling health wise? I know at the end of the game we didn't get to talk to you on Sunday. You had the evaluation, but how you feeling?

Adams: "I feel good, I feel normal."

Q: Coach McDaniels talked about the importance of tape maybe from this last game more than anything as learning opportunities. What did you see on the tape that can maybe make this offense and this team better going forward?

Adams: "The thing with us is just every play having everybody on the same accord, and everybody putting that burden on themselves of making sure that they are not being the one that they -- not being the one that they say: 'I don't want to be the guy, I'm going to be at the point of attack here if you're blocking.' Or: 'I don't want to be the guy that gets the ball thrown to me, I have to win my one on one.' You need everybody in football, that's the thing that makes it the most special and why we celebrate the way we do as a team and all these things, because it takes so much in one play for the play to turn out the right way. Because I can run the perfect route, or I can run a terrible route and then finally get open late into the linemen block a little longer whatever, so they made that happen. You need everybody. So, I think the biggest thing is just looking at the tape and finding out the things that we weren't all together. And when it was one person who, not that ruined it, but sometimes that's how it goes -- you get you get thrown back or everybody blocks it up perfectly. You don't make the catch that's part of execution, just completing the play."

Q: When you do see that it's fixable on film, what kind of relief does it give it it's not necessarily talent issue, it's just execution?

Adams: "I mean, it's not a relief, honestly, not for me. I mean, I don't know how the next man would answer that, but it's almost more disappointing when it's not the talent and you go out there and you don't execute. So, it's part of football, it's the most imperfect game, and the most team sport that there is. So there are going to be times where not everybody dominates their man. But you have to do well enough to make the play work and you didn't do that well enough last week. So obviously we have to look at the tape and find out what we get wrong to correct it."

Q: When it comes to the hit that you went out on, did you feel like it was maybe too late or feeling any type of way?

Adams: "I don't want to continue to talk too much about it. Was it unnecessary? Completely, obviously. And I mean, depending on how you look at it. I mean certain players play a certain way, too; some people are out of control, they fly around, they don't really have much true purpose out there. I mean, playing a half field on one side, you run over and hit somebody in the head on the other side of the field. I mean, that's the type of stuff that contributes to you not being on the field. That's why you're in when you go in on top by 25 at the end of the game. Maybe if that man learns how to play the game the right way, he will see the field. But until then, he'll have to go in and live off of plays like that I guess."

Q: If you catch a touchdown this Sunday night it would put you fifth all time in red zone touchdowns, passing Randy Moss. Any thoughts on that? And why have you been so good in the red zone during your career?

Adams: "Well one, first, that's crazy. Obviously, that's a pretty big deal. Being the top five, top anything in the entirety of this league is hard to do. So, it's a big honor to be able to do that. I don't know. I mean, just ever since college, really high school, I just had a nose for the end zone and obviously being put in great situations by the coaches and quarterbacks over the years. They've given me a lot of opportunities down there to be able to execute and make those plays. So, I just capitalize on those as much as possible. I'm in the business of maximizing, and if I'm going to be the guy that they rely on to make it happen, then I've got to come through."

Q: You've been in the league obviously a long time. You've played in playoff games, Monday night whatever. Any more excitement for a Sunday Night Football game? All the eyes on you as opposed to a normal game?

Adams: "Hell, yeah. I mean Sunday night and Monday night games, those are the ones you get a little different feeling no matter how long you've been playing, 10 years, 15 years, five years. Whatever it is, I mean, you get a different feeling. I know I do. It's just something about being the only game on TV. Especially those Monday night games, people had that hard day at work coming back starting the week off and they just want to see some good football. So you always get a little special feeling when you're one in that prime-game. I definitely get a different feeling in warmups and leading up to them."

Q: I know a lot of people are going to find out what you did for your grandmother -- I think it's Friday night that it airs. Does it ever get to a point where that's not special to you, like what you're able to do, what your career has been able to allow you to do?

Adams: "Never man. I mean a lot of stuff does get old. You get a lot of experiences. You get to do a lot of different things. You get to travel, not that traveling gets old, but there's certain things that you get to do repeatedly over and over and it kind of just is something that you do. But I've been doing it for a long time and the happiest that I've ever been has been doing things like that for other people whether it's somebody I know or I don't know, working with nonprofits different things like that where I get to use my position in his world to bring blessings for other people. That's the most amazing thing for me and obviously big shout out to CBS for giving me that opportunity to do that and to work with them because my grandma has hit me up probably like five times since then. Like I can see her smiling through the phone. And I feel like we speak a lot, but we also talk more now because of that. I feel like it gives her another appreciation for her grandson and obviously the opportunities that comes with this position that I'm in. So definitely I love it. And more than the money being able to buy houses, cars, any of that stuff, these types of opportunities are the ones that I do it for."

Q: A new kind of respect for people that do renovating and things like that?

Adams: "Oh yeah, I mean, yeah. I mean just the time alone, let alone the actual hard work. I got pretty dirty. You all are going to see the show and you all are going to think that it was just some BS. I was in the trenches in there, man. I did the whole demo, you'll see. Watch Friday at 8/7 Central time."

Q: What's your take on the whole Deion Sanders in Colorado? Just how big everything has been up there, have you paid attention and noticing all of this?

Adams: "Look man, I'm all for it. I love it, I love to see it. I love the untraditional approach. It's a weird dynamic, and I've thought about this for a minute just because he's a real old school type cat, but he's bringing like a crazy clash of like new school and old school together - putting Instagram handles on their jerseys. Clearly, I mean, you see the way that he commands his team, and you see the way that they are out there, it's like a show. So, I mean, I know I enjoy watching, I'm not missing it, I don't care what's on TV. If the Colorado Buffaloes playing right now, I want to see [Lil] Wayne and Lil Uzi on the sideline and whoever else is next, too. It's fun and I like to see it a little different. If you can bring it, at the end of the day winning is going to take care of everything. So, they keep doing that they can be as flashy and as cool as they want to, showing off the AP's and all that. I love it."

Q: Do you think they'll beat Oregon this weekend?

Adams: "If they beat Oregon, I mean, college football might be bigger than NFL in a minute. So, this may not be good for me, but I'm looking forward to seeing it."

Q: You know what a good quarterback looks like, what are your thoughts on his son [Sheduer Sanders]?

Adams: "Well, I haven't really studied him too much, but I mean, he's obviously doing something well enough, and I've seen the growth and I feel like his growth was pretty gradual too. It wasn't something that where he just kind of boomed on the scene just because he was Deion's [Sanders] son, he was just the superstar, he had to kind of work into that. And he's got a lot of hype and all of that kind of stuff around his name right now, and he's doing what he got to do to keep that going. So, I like what he's doing, I just want to see him keep it doing it."

Q: Is that something you'd like to do in the future, being a coach and changing the culture somewhere?

Adams: "No, I'm going to do this as long as I can. I might do some little celebs or something, pull up at the high school or something like that. It may change but probably not. I'll probably be chilling."

Q: Jimmy [Garappolo] said one of the keys he thinks to unlock in the offense is maybe he goes better with them they show you a single high safety look. What are kind of the keys to that and do you agree, is that kind of a key going forward?

Adams: "Yeah man, I mean, it ain't no secret, so it doesn't really matter what I stand up here and say. But at the end of the day, these things are out to try to take me away, so more opportunities when they're not trying desperately to do so, we got to take advantage of those opportunities. At the end of the day, the good part about this team is that we've got multiple guys, it's not just me that we're relying on to the win against single high coverage. So, at the end of the day, we've got [Keelan] Cole, Hunter [Renfrow], DC [DeAndre Carter], K-Wilk [Kristian Wilkerson], all these boys out there who can go out and win your match-up too. I'm just one of the guys out there, but I'm looking forward to winning my matchup as much as possible to make it easy on Jimmy [Garoppolo]."

The Silver and Black return home to Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas to play the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, Sept. 24, at 8:20 p.m. EDT/5:20 p.m. PDT.

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