Simply No Replacing Davante Adams

The Simpson have gotten a lot right in their 34 years on TV, but one of their most prescient points came in the Hank Scorpio episode, in which, upon moving to a new town, Bart Simpson’s wisecracking finally catches up with him and gets him booted from his new school’s general population, and relegated to the “Leg Up” remedial class. Surrounded by circles of paper and safety pencils, and frustrated with the simplistic lessons being offered, Bart questions his new teacher on how these students are expected to “catch up” to the regular students while being taught at a far slower pace. The teacher has no answer. After last Thursday’s stunning Davante Adams trade, I feel like Bart asking my school teacher (Brian Gutekunst) how in the hell we are supposed to catch up to the other students (NFC contenders) by getting worse. I would expect Brian’s answer to echo that of Bart’s teacher. But I can speak more freely than Mr. Gutekunst can, and, quite honestly, there is simply no replacing Davante Adams.

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