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Chargers’ Social Media Team Thoughtlessly Places Target On Defense’s Back By Enraging Davante Adams

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Raiders WR Davante Adams catches a touchdown vs. the Chargers.

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The Los Angeles Chargers‘ social media crew thoughtlessly placed a target on its own team’s back with an offseason jab directed towards Davante Adams. The enraged Raiders wideout plans to use that bulletin board material in Week 1.

Davante Adams spoke with Kay Adams this week to discuss the swipe. He had a message for the Chargers’ content creators while on the air.

“Keep my name out your mouth.”

-Davante Adams

The receiver is gearing up for Year 3 in Las Vegas after spending his first eight seasons in Green Bay. Since arriving in the AFC West, he’s absolutely feasted on the Chargers‘ secondary.

Adams racked up 75 yards on eight catches in his first matchup with Los Angeles last season. He followed it up with a 101-yard performance in Game 2 when the Raiders took the Chargers to the woodshed in a 63-21 shellacking.

Those 176 yards, when added to his 321 from the year prior, give him nearly 500 receiving yards in four head-to-head contests. Not too shabby!

That noted output makes the Chargers’ social media team’s actions all the more head scratching.

Davante Adams was NOT happy with an offseason jab.

While previewing the upcoming season schedule, the creative team posted future opponents next to different varieties of Pop-Tarts. Adams was pictured next to a “garbage” flavored box.

He saw the slight, and he’s clearly not forgotten it!

The receiver sent a warning to the Chargers ahead of a Week 1 meeting.

“[The Chargers] posted me, and then like a trash can or something like that,” he recalled. “I thought about responding on social media to it, and being funny there, but I figured it’d be better to just beat their head in in real life… My first game against them, I don’t know if they forgot, I went for like 10 catches, 141 yards and a touchdown.

“The next time, that same year, it was like 177 yards and two touchdowns… I just kinda wanted to remind them of what they’ve been going through in the games they’ve played against me. Hopefully, the people who made that post – because it’s not the players – this is strictly for the Chargers social media team. Keep my name out of your mouth.”

Things are getting spicy as we approach the start of preseason. The Week 1 opener for these division rivals is setting up to be an entertaining one!