Adams wont make the trip to Tennessee

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Already discussed here. Feel free to lock thread.

 

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And aside from all the other Adams threads that I haven't really been following,

It's official, right? This is the worst signing in the history of the Hawks, right?

Makes the Branch and Graham trades weren't even CLOSE to this bad.

SMH.
No they produced something at a lesser cost I believe.
Adams even when healthy just felt like a square block trying to fit in a circle.
A very athletic player but a tweener who had to be 100% healthy or there was
nothing to give.
The injuries all over from legs to hands took anything he had a while back.
 

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1a) Harvin
1b) Adams
This was worse than the Harvin trade by far. We took a big L here, from day one it was a bad idea. We spent franchise QB draft capital on a non premium position.

To make matters worse, we could’ve gotten several extremely talented safeties that fit our scheme better than this POS.
 

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Both the Adams and Harvin trades were the worst in franchise history IMO, but each for different reasons. Yes, Harvin did contribute in the SB, but he did absolutely nothing to help get us there. And, he nearly destroyed the team, by getting into a fight with Golden Tate, refusing to go into a game forcing a trade...the locker room was so split that Beast nearly didn't board the bus to the airport after learning of the trade. And there were red flags galore that were ignored or rationalized, the worst of which he once chased his head coach down the sidelines during a game, screaming his lungs out at him, complaining about a QB decision. Pete's ego was such that he thought that he could tame a shrew, that through the power of his personality, he could succeed where others had failed.

The Adams trade obviously had some unforeseeable events in all the injuries, but he was traded for without a clear vision as to how to use him. He initially thrived, but that was in a vacuum where our pass rush was on pace to be the worst in league history. Once defenses figured him out, he was no longer effective in that role, and he was a one trick pony, sucked in coverage, not a ball hawk who had interceptions bounce off his face mask.

So it's a tossup. Yes, Harvin did contribute something in our SB victory, and he was a little cheaper as we only traded a 1st, a 3rd, and a 7th vs. Adams' two firsts, a third, and a player. But although Adams' was more expensive and didn't produce outside his first season, we can't ignore the role injuries played in his demise.
 
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Percy was by far the more talented player but his attitude was worse. In the limited time he played he was actually out there he was a difference maker. Adams not so much...Percy also had a history of injuries prior to the trade and yes it was a gross overpay.
 

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Yuck...Adams threads are icky . Please stop !
 

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Percy was by far the more talented player but his attitude was worse. In the limited time he played he was actually out there he was a difference maker. Adams not so much...Percy also had a history of injuries prior to the trade and yes it was a gross overpay.
Had he contributed like he did during the SB and for a few games the following season, I don't think it would have been an overpay at all. But the problem was that he was a head case, something that should have been apparent prior to our trading for him.
 

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Is anybody on this site still defending Adams? Just curious.
 
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