Michael Bennett Comedy Hour Summary:
Aaron Rodgers is the best QB in the league (outside of Russell Wilson!). Ability to see the rush and make the pass is special. Rodgers is a tough guy who handles the hits. He talks a lot on the field. What are some of the things he says? "Moaning sounds." Bennett won't have a bicycle ready for this game. Instead, he will have a horse ready.
Eddy Lacy is slightly overweight but good at what he does. Outside of Marshawn Lynch, he is the toughest back to tackle in the NFL. Aaron Rodgers is very careful with the football. Bennett learned from Greg Schiano in Tampa Bay that the ball is holy and should be treated with reverence. That is like how Rodgers' protects the ball.
We made some mistakes last week. We have to teach the young players how to improve the communication. In a marriage, if you don't communicate, good things don't happen. In a game, if you don't communicate, people score TDs and others lose their jobs. We weren't on the same page in that game.
We miss Kam Chancellor's love. When you have a brother who is off in war, you want him to come back. We just want him to come back. When you hold out, you end up having to pay the team out of your pocket after taxes. Bennett's situation is different than Kam's. He has a wife and kids, and his wife wouldn't let him hold out.
Ray Lewis's opinion about never leaving your brothers in battle by holding out comes from a different generation of football. Kam's agent is different and his mindset is different. You can't have hard feelings toward a player who is holding out. They put their bodies on the line every day, and he is just being a business man.
Bennett's decision not to hold out was a hard one that came down to the last minute. In football, you have to be 100% focused on the task at hand. If your mind is elsewhere, you may end up getting hit with a concussion, in which case hopefully you will get some of Russell Wilson's water.
His wish is not to have his contract changed after this year as a reward, his wish is "Black Lives Matter" . . . his wish is to get back to a championship level. The ultimate goal is to get to Santa Clara to play in the Super Bowl. After this year, Bennett doesn't know if he will receive a new contract. But it worked for Forest Gump, so hopefully it will work for Michael Bennett.
Bennett made of point of saying that he disagrees with some of the things Richard Sherman said about "Black Lives Matter." People kill people every day, but that's not what this movement is about. It is about social injustice, and the movement is not limited to just black people. Segregation of communities plays a role in the amount of violence in these communities. Education plays a role. Bennett believes in the movement, which is continuation of the 1950s and 1960s Civil Rights movement. We are all just people at the end of the day.
