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Davante Adams shredded his gloves after dropped TDs: 'It wasn't me; it was the gloves'

Published Dec. 21, 2016 10:47 a.m. ET

Cameron DaSilva

The Green Bay Packers were fortunate to escape Chicago with a win on Sunday, doing so thanks to Aaron Rodgers’ 60-yard bomb to Jordy Nelson in the final minute. The game could have been a bit different, however, if Davante Adams didn't drop two sure touchdowns earlier in the game.

He was understandably and visibly frustrated with himself immediately after one of the second drop, kicking the pylon and slamming his helmet to the ground. He even took out his anger on a pair of gloves.

"I shredded those things since they didn't do their job," Adams said, via ESPN. "That's what it was. It wasn't me; it was the gloves."

The sun, however, was somewhat to blame for his first drop. He says it played a role in tracking the ball and forced him to “kind of put my hands out there” and hope it would work out. Still, he realizes it was solely on him and nothing else.

The second play was a lack of focus, as he admits.

"[It was] the focus on the second one, I believe really," Adams said. "I felt like the ball was in the air for 10 years and then it kind of snuck up on me and I tried to use the body, in between body and into the hands on the catch. I just have to make that. I've made it a million times."