I was always against giving him the extension because he is 29 and I wanted him to have to play motivated this year. So far he has looked like a non factor out there to me. What do you guys think? I know it's early in the season...
RussB":2v7il4l5 said:Dont like the bennett extension though, should have signed lang and whitworth.
Joekel is also making money he doesnt deserve. Intead of resigning bennett, and signing joekel. They could have gotten, lang, whitworth, or both. It was a possibility.Hasselbeck":26tftp2z said:RussB":26tftp2z said:Dont like the bennett extension though, should have signed lang and whitworth.
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Let's just gloss over the fact that Whitworth was never going to be an option for pretty obvious reasons.
Combined Lang and Whitworth are making $23.7M this year. Bennett is making $15M this year and that was just to front-load his deal.
Again.. this isn't Madden 2018. FA is so much more complex than "just throw some money at them!"
This is probably true.Sgt. Largent":3grjua11 said:I love Kam, he's my favorite Hawk of all time behind Easley.
But we gave him a new contract more for his leadership on defense, rather than his play on the field. Still a good strong safety, but nowhere near his level of play 3-4 years ago.
Make no mistake, he's here because Pete wants his leadership to help control Richard and the other nonsense starters on that side of the ball. Doesn't mean it was a mistake to give him an extension, but IMO it was 70% leadership based, and only 30% performance on the field based.