When the Las Vegas Raiders traded for wide receiver Davante Adams in March 2022, they were expected by many to take a major leap.

Instead, the Raiders went just 6-11 and missed the playoffs, a result that has become all too familiar for the franchise over the last two decades.

Through three games this season, things have not looked much better. Las Vegas has gotten off to a 1-2 start, most recently scoring just 18 points in a five-point loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday night.

Adams is understandably frustrated and has called the Raiders’ organizational culture into question.

“It’s not my mentality to sit here and try to take all season and figure it out,” Adams said, via Vincent Bonsignore of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “You use these early games like this to establish an identity. We’re not doing things the right way to establish a winning culture. … We’ve got to go out there and do it. That’s the theme of this year — doing it. Not just talking about it and figuring out what we need to do. We did all that last year. This year we gotta be about it.”

Adams himself has been his usual dominant self through the first three games of 2023, hauling in 25 receptions for 322 yards and three touchdowns. Last season, he caught 100 passes for 1,516 yards and a league-leading 14 receiving scores, so the problem certainly does not lie with him.

The 30-year-old became accustomed to contending year in and year out during his eight-year tenure with the Green Bay Packers, so this surely represents a stark change for him.

The culture issue that Davante Adams is referencing has been ever-present for the Raiders for the last 20 years. The franchise, which had previously been stationed in Oakland up until 2020, has made just two playoff appearances since 2003.

Las Vegas will try to right the ship when it battles the Los Angeles Chargers next Sunday.