Wrighster or Wrong - Davante Adams

Las Vegas Raiders WR Davante Adams is facing a lawsuit by a photographer whom he shoved on his way into the tunnel after a tough loss to the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday Night Football, and George Wrighster isn't having it! Check out why George is so heated on this topic.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're ready to check your feelings at the door. This
is am I Rice stir or am I wrong? We're
bringing new facts and only the truth. Now, am I
Rice there? Or am I row? We need to talk
about Davonte Adams getting charged from misdemeter assaulted pushing a photographer. Now,

(00:22):
this discussion surrounding this incident has literally been in suffer
but there are some elements of it that could result
in positive change. Now we all know that this is
a money grab by the photographer. We do, but that
doesn't excuse Davonte Adams from what he did. He literally
pushed the man down and there was no reason for it.

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And to recap what happened, the Raiders were trailing thirty
to eight late in the fourth quarter. They were trying
to come back. It didn't happen. Davonte Adams and Hunter
Renfroke collided at the end of the game, looking like
Keystone cops, and people were putting their memes together and
everything else. Now, Davonte Adams, who was visibly frustrated, slammed

(01:04):
his helmet down after the game and everything. He's not
used to losing. He was playing in Green Bay. He
wins and wins the division every single year, and now
his team is sitting at one and four. He's never
been in that position. He hasn't even been on a
team that had a losing record through five weeks since
he was red shirting at Fresno State. And now he

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is arguably the best receiver in football and he's brand
new to losing. But that doesn't excuse what he did. Now,
when he was in the process of leaving the field,
photographer Ryan Zebli crossed into his field division and then
Adam shoved him to the ground. Now, we can debate
whether or not Zebli put himself in a position by
walking in front of Adams unnecessarily and walking into his path,

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But what we can't do is justify Adams shoving him
to the ground, even though he immediately apologized and he said,
quote sorry to the guy pushed over after the game,
obviously very frustrated at the way the game ended, and
when he ran in front of me as I exited,
that was my reaction and I felt horrible immediately. That's

(02:08):
not me. Apologies, man, hope you see this and that
that that wasn't like a canned uh you know, agent lawyer. Apology,
No that was the dude immediately after apologizing, and he
did so in the postgame interview and everything else. But
what was he did was what he did criminal, absolutely not,

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absolutely not. And after the game Ryan Zebli, he filed
a police report and they issued a citation for misdemeanor assault,
saying that Adams did by an intentional overact, implicit bodily
injury or caused an unlawful offensive contact upon Ryan Zebli
by pushing him to the ground with two hands, causing

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whiplash and headache possible minor concussion. This is clearly a
money grab, But this is a case of Davante Adams.
He does have to take his medicine. Whether it's a
fine from the league, whether him having to pay fifty
a hundred thousand dollars in a civil lawsuit, or maybe

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even being suspended for a game. That's what's going to
happen now. On the other hand, like I said, money grab,
I've watched enough episodes A Better Call Saul to know
that a police report like this is just a pre
court cursor to a civil of lawsuit and a settlement.
And of course Davante Adams is an NFL player, He's

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got it in his pocket. But if you have been
on an NFL sideline and there are dozens of people
who are credential, they're looking for any and every way
to capture what's going on in the game in the moments,
or just soak it all all in. And when you're
in the game as a participant, you know that your
emotions are hot and heavy and that you are going

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through something that it takes a minute for you to
come back down and go back to real life. So
when people try to talk about the Draymond Green incident
with his teammate Jordan Pool or this with Davante Adams,
comparing it to normal life, if I did this at
my job, well, your job is not sports. Sports is
a different landscape. It is a different animal. It is

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adjudicated by different rules. And if I'm the NFL, I'm
getting Ryan Zevley off the sideline and anybody else that
is going to look the first thing that happens try
to sue players. Now, granted, there should be some sort
of legal recourse for for him to you know, for
there to him to have to pay, but criminal lawsuit, dude,

(04:40):
the criminal charges. Stop it. Stop it already. Now, if
the NFL wants to do something very positive in this situation.
What it can do is it can make sure that
the tunnel is clear for players after the game, to
make sure that that people are not in their way.
And you know what, no player is going to lose

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sleep over it, and it's probably best for everybody. Let
that sink in