31 tackles, 8.5 sacks with the best secondary in the league and you guys act like we passed on signing an All-Pro. Bucs, like every other team wasn't going to commit long term to Bennett, especially when they felt Bowers had more upside. They asked him to allow them to counter offer, he declined. Period. Why do we have this convo after every Seahawks game?
32 teams passed on signing him long term. 32 TEAMS!!!!!!!You guys overrate him more than Seahawk fans. Geez.
Tell us more, Hayseed. Make sure to include how good Josh Freeman is.
32 teams passed on signing him long term. 32 TEAMS!!!!!!!You guys overrate him more than Seahawk fans. Geez.
Tell us more, Hayseed. Make sure to include how good Josh Freeman is.
Tell me why no team in the NFL was willing to give this guy more than a 1year contract? I imagine your simple mind can't handle it.
31 tackles, 8.5 sacks with the best secondary in the league and you guys act like we passed on signing an All-Pro. Bucs, like every other team wasn't going to commit long term to Bennett, especially when they felt Bowers had more upside. They asked him to allow them to counter offer, he declined. Period. Why do we have this convo after every Seahawks game?
Amen.Not to mention we could gave signed Abraham for half the price and he had. 11.5 sacks and 4 forced fumbles.We are lamenting not signing the wrong guy.
31 tackles, 8.5 sacks
on how many snaps?
No, if they would have signed Abraham or someone else that would have been fine. They didn't and let their leading sacker walk for peanuts. When you feed your fan base the whole build/develop your own players B$, then that just makes it worse. Why are we letting a proven commodity walk so we can hope one of the injured guys can finally reach potential? Dumb move, but like I said Schiano made plenty of good personnel moves as well
31 tackles, 8.5 sacks
on how many snaps?
He actually had a lot of snaps because he played all over the line. He is on a roster with a great front seven with great depth and he managed to rise to the top with limited snaps. Just shows how good he is. Also shows how multi dimensional he is.
The funniest part about the whole Bennett saga is that their are still fans that swear he isn't really that good and won't admit it was stupid to let him walk....simply because that would admitting they were wrong when they swore we were better off with DTN and Bowers.
This definitely describes a handful of posters on this forum, including the following two:
31 tackles, 8.5 sacks with the best secondary in the league and you guys act like we passed on signing an All-Pro. Bucs, like every other team wasn't going to commit long term to Bennett, especially when they felt Bowers had more upside. They asked him to allow them to counter offer, he declined. Period. Why do we have this convo after every Seahawks game?
Amen.Not to mention we could gave signed Abraham for half the price and he had. 11.5 sacks and 4 forced fumbles.We are lamenting not signing the wrong guy.
Message board GMs always have the right answer after the fact. Bennett is a good player and I'm sure there are many teams that wish they would've resigned him. However, at the time I can't blame the Bucs for wanting to go with Bowers. They felt he had much more upside than Bennett. Plus, they were probably concerned with his health. Was it the right call? Probably not (we'll have to see what Lovie can do with Bowers) but I still can't blame the Bucs. Especially when Bennett didn't allow them to match the offer.
31 tackles, 8.5 sacks
on how many snaps?
Exactly. He is on a roster with a great front seven with great depth and he managed to rise to the top with limited snaps. Just shows how good he is. Also shows how multi dimensional he is by playing all over the line.
If he was so amazing and multi dimensional, then why was he a situational player?
31 tackles, 8.5 sacks
on how many snaps?
Here are the per-snap numbers:Michael Bennett: 65 total QB pressures in 412 pass rush snaps 1 QB pressure every 6.34 snapsDaniel Teo-Nesh: 24 total QB pressures in 328 pass rush snapsDaquan Bowers: 17 total QB pressures in 172 pass rush snaps 1 QB pressure every 12.20 snapsClayborn/Bowers/DTN totaled 8 sacks in 1028 pass rush snaps, or 1 sack every 128.5 snapsMichael Bennett totaled 8.5 sacks in 412 pass rush snaps, or 1 sack every 48.5 snaps
Message board GMs always have the right answer after the fact.
Don't be a moron. Most of us knew it was a horrible move at the time. There is not "after the fact" going on here. The only people that can't admit it now are people like you and Doloris that didn't realize it was stupid all along.
If he is as awesome as you guys seem to think his snaps wouldn't be so limited. Would a team limit JJ Watts snaps ?The fact that he rotates in fresh against a tired OL actually helps a guy like Bennett.
The funniest part about the whole Bennett saga is that their are still fans that swear he isn't really that good and won't admit it was stupid to let him walk....simply because that would admitting they were wrong when they swore we were better off with DTN and Bowers.
This definitely describes a handful of posters on this forum, including the following two:
31 tackles, 8.5 sacks with the best secondary in the league and you guys act like we passed on signing an All-Pro. Bucs, like every other team wasn't going to commit long term to Bennett, especially when they felt Bowers had more upside. They asked him to allow them to counter offer, he declined. Period. Why do we have this convo after every Seahawks game?
Amen.Not to mention we could gave signed Abraham for half the price and he had. 11.5 sacks and 4 forced fumbles.We are lamenting not signing the wrong guy.
I'll take that as your submission. Go sit in the corner and color. Grown ups are talking football.
People called this a bad move immediately. No hindsight.
