Seahawks DE Michael Bennett goes off on several quarterbacks calling them mediocre
Michael Bennett wants to get paid by the Seattle Seahawks and whenever you have you have him in an interview there will be something to report. Well he did not disappoint. In an interview with 710 ESPN Radio, the defensive end ranted on averaged to mediocre quarterbacks getting paid.
“Quarterback is the only position in the NFL where you could be mediocre and get paid. At every other position, you can’t be mediocre,” Bennett said. “If I was Ryan Tannehill and the most games I ever won was seven, how could you get a $100 million for that? I guess that’s the value of the position.
“And then it’s like, you’re sitting at home and there’s breaking news and it says that Brian Hoyer is the quarterback of the Texans. I’m like, who cares? That’s not breaking news. It’s really not breaking news.”
“There’s some mediocre quarterbacks in the NFL that make a lot of money,” Bennett said. “You take a guy like Sam Bradford — he’s never played really in the last three years, but he’s made more money than most guys in the NFL.”
“Then quarterbacks get protected more than any other player. I mean, he gets hit in his knees and he’s about to cry,” Bennett said, making a whimpering sound. “‘They hit me in my legs.’ Everybody gets hit in their legs. Every play somebody tries to hit me in my legs. So what makes him different? What makes his life better than mine? I’ve got kids. I’ve got stuff I like to do on the weekend. But because he gets hit in his legs, he gets a flag. He gets up with a sad face like the world just ended because he got hit. I mean, you got hit in an NFL game. Who cares? Get back up and be like, ‘Good job.’”
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