HIS GAME IS OUT OF REACH

Adams, the 12-year veteran, is putting up career numbers to help Rams move into NFC's top spot

- GARY KLEIN

RAMS RECEIVER Davante Adams has been virtually unstoppable in the red zone with a league-leading 12 touchdowns, six shy of his single-season career high.

ERIC THAYER Los Angeles Times

The Bird Streets Club in West Hollywood is a private, members-only enclave that attracts a celebrity clientele.

It’s not the kind of place you'd expect an NFL coach to request a dinner tutorial from a future Hall of Fame receiver on the finer points of his release technique.

Yet that’s where last spring Davante Adams demonstrated for Sean McVay some of the moves that will eventually land the 12-year veteran in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

“We didn’t get too many looks,” McVay recalled. “I think people were like, ‘That's some cool [stuff] right there.’”

Adams joked that McVay’s “elite” status and the coach's access to the club put them in a situation where there was not a lot of attention. So the two “football meatheads or football nerds” who “think about the game in a very intricate way” could engage in shop talk.

“Basically,” Adams said, it was “making some of these plays come to life before I even had the opportunity to run some of the routes.”