Michael Bennett Available via Trade?
 

His contract is surprisingly cheap for a three time pro bowler, wonder what it would take? He is also 32, so maybe too old for Veach?

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/2...ichael-bennett

I'd be all for it at a decent price. I know the defense needs to get younger overall, but another veteran presence would seem nice.

Bennie Logan II. No.

Too much baggage, and his production could fall off a cliff in no time.
Not really a scheme fit. Takes dumb penalties and is more social activist than football player now.

Pass.

He would be a good player

But we'll probably sign a cheaper, less controversial player

LMAO

HELL NO. Anywhere but Kansas City for the has been

In fairness, he's far better than Logan based on accolades and comes cheaper than him as well.

**** no. He wants a new deal and he’s a piece of shit human.

Need someone to take MP’s place.

Draft.

The Vegas guy?

Uh no thanks.

Future raider or bengal.

Hell no!

Funny I just talked to a friend of mine who's a Seahawks fan who was desperately hoping that they would get rid of him.

I wouldn't touch him for anything.

Veach won't

I wouldn't trade for him, but I can't imagine you know enough about him to make such a determination.

This city couldn’t handle Marcus Peters. You want to see if they can handle Michael Bennett? ROFL

Naw after he tried to to **** up a jags o lineman cause his team lost, naw **** this guy

Lol we just got rid of peters why would we want this asswipe?

A liar and race baiting Kaep wannabe. No thanks.

LMAO

You don't think a guy who lied about an altercation with the police and tried to make it into a race issue knowing damn well he was lying isn't a piece of shit?

You do realize Bennett's claims could have jeopardized the careers of the police officers involved right?

He's old, more suited for the 4-3, and can no longer play inside and out like he used to.

TRADED -- to the Iggles.

Seattle sends Bennett and a 7 to Philly in exchange for a 5th round pick.

Champions make Champion moves.

The teams that are too cowardly to keep talented outspoken players are gonna get left in the dust

You think Seattle is too cowardly to keep talented, outspoken players? Haven't they pretty much been the poster boys for keeping precisely that type of player?

The problem is that they are blowing things up and probably are envisioning a year or two to recalibrate, and players that can't help them in, say, 2019, are being jettisoned now for value so they can rebuilt.

FMP

This was pretty dumb.

LMAO Idiot.

**** you!!!!!!!!!

No it wasn't, bitch!!!!!!!!

What part of building a championship team through the draft don't people understand?

Yeah, it was.

They literally got rid of him to "quiet things down"

He's going to contribute to an already stacked (and opinionated, as it so happens) Eagles team, and they're gonna steamroll teams like the Chiefs who prefer things to be quiet and safe and white-friendly at the expense of talent

Its almost like teams are willing to put up with toxic characters as long as their results on the field offset it.

No.

Again, his outspokenness was a direct factor in him getting traded. Do you think trading good players (even if they're older) to "quiet things down" is how you win football games?

If the results on the field aren't enough to justify their presence in the locker room, then I have absolutely no problem with it.

Negro please.

Pederson out here making moves while we trade the best corner and a draft pick for a can of Spaghetti O’s.

Huh?

Bennett had a productive season. So did Peters. And then they got traded because they're "toxic".

Toxic to whom? Not their teammates; both players were well-regarded.

No, they're only toxic to the old white ****ers who buy season tickets and make owners richer.

Back to my original point: trading these players away for peanuts is not how you build a winning team. The Eagles and Rams and anyone else who is on the receiving ends of these trades are going to see their "risk" pay off, while the other teams are going to have mediocre quiet seasons that let them sell tickets to conservative suburbanites.

Who are you referring to here? Bennett had 8.5 sacks, second on the team. He's still a good player. Peters had an all-pro caliber season. Even Kaep had a good statistical season in 2016. What's your threshold here?

Chris Trapasso @ChrisTrapasso

Michael Bennett, Fletcher Cox, Brandon Graham, and Vinny Curry combined 2018 cap hit:

- $42.4M (23.9% of the cap)

- #Eagles (with Bennett) are around $15M *over* the cap

More roster tweaks are coming in Philly

Jesus.

1. His PFF grade for 2017 was 80.6, which was 36th at his position group. Slightly above average.

2. He is 32 years old, and will be 33 by the end of this upcoming season. His best days are behind him, and he is more likely to drop down to average, at best.

3. He was owed a $3 million roster bonus in a couple weeks. His salary cap number was $7.4 million for this year. Pretty high for a slightly above average guy. By cutting him, they save $2.2 million on the cap this year, and more next year.

4. Seattle has pretty clearly determined that the window of time to win championships with the current group of guys, who carried them to multiple super bowls, is over, and that it's time to rebuild around Russell Wilson.

5. They obviously had some serious issues getting over their SB loss to the Patriots. It apparently resulted in some players resenting Pete Carroll, and/or Wilson. It was disruptive and divisive to the team. AN NFL TEAM CANNOT WIN CHAMPIONSHIPS IF IT IS FULL OF INTERNAL SQUABBLING.

6. It's pretty damn clear that Schneider/Carroll know what they're doing. Think their credentials trump yours by just a smidge.

**** you, guy. Its all just 1 big conspiracy to keep outspoken black men down.

Racist.

Can you keep your BS confined to DC

The eagles got lucky with a bunch of vet signings last year - kinda like the royals in 2015 - and are rolling the dice. Bennett isn't elite anymore.


The seahawks are going young.

I'll disagree with you on this one, I think it did factor into Peters, this one I don't think so.

Seattle is a very progressive area and Pete Carroll has never had an issue working with players that have attitudes or stances. I think this a team moving on from an aging player and basically shutting the door on this group.

I think you could argue he was never elite…

The most sacks he had in a season was only 10.0

He is a great run stopper though

Thats exactly what it is. Anyone making more of it than that is grasping at straws or too caught up in todays politics to look at it from the football perspective.

District Attorney of Harris
County, Texas announced it has indicted Eagles’ DE Michael Bennett for felony charge for injuring a 66-year-old paraplegic working at NRG Stadium to control access to field at SuperBowl LI. A warrant has been issued for Bennett’s arrest.

Lol. Good trade.

Never liked dude.

First I’ve heard of this.

Injuring an elderly paraplegic? What a piece of shit human being. Lock the ****er up and then he can become another “statistic” so many of these assholes are protesting about.

Turd.

Huh....funny.

Injured a 66 year old paraplegic?

WOW

If anyone had any doubts about this guy being a piece of shit, this should settle it once and for all

Pushed through security to get onto the field after the superbowl and one of the guards happened to be a 66 year old paraplegic and fell down.

Still an asshole move for someone that has a bit of self entitlement to do that, but not quite like they saw some old cripple and smacked them down some steps or anything.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">New <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Eagles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Eagles</a> DE Michael Bennett was indicted by a Harris County grand jury on a felony charge of injuring an elderly paraplegic woman at Super Bow LI. <a href="https://t.co/C1n2NJt6Fg">https://t.co/C1n2NJt6Fg</a> <a href="https://t.co/NWJG29BDIW">pic.twitter.com/NWJG29BDIW</a></p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/977256161245302788?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2018</a></blockquote>
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No thanks.

Anyone that was mad about Peters kneeling should be completely against acquiring this piece of shit.

Wait a second: The NFL hired a 66 year old woman, who's also a paraplegic, as security for a Super Bowl?

That's a lawsuit just waiting to happen.

Traded last week and indicted today? That's some serious serendipity, bad karma or sly work from the Seahags front office. Jeff Lurie is chocking down some nitroglycerin tabs about now... Not good news for a team that's dead last in cap space and just lost a guy that's counting $6,650,000 against the cap...and was supposed to be a cornerstone in their defense. Not to mention they gave up their 5th rounder and WR Marcus Johnson. (Compensatoin too small for Bennett? :hmmm: )


https://nbcprofootballtalk.files.wor...0&h=316&crop=1
Eagles defensive end Michael Bennett was indicted by a grand jury today in Houston on a felony charge of injury of the elderly, stemming from an incident at last year’s Super Bowl.

Bennett, who played for the Seahawks at the time and was attending the Patriots-Falcons Super Bowl as a spectator while his brother Martellus Bennett played for the Patriots, is accused of rushing the field after the game and pushing a 66-year-old paraplegic woman who was working at the stadium.

According to the indictment, Bennett was told he couldn’t access the field from the place where he was trying to gain entry, and instead of complying he pushed the woman aside, injuring her.

There is no word on the nature of the woman’s injuries, and there has been no explanation about why it took 13 months for charges to be brought.

It is unclear whether the Seahawks and Eagles knew about the incident when Bennett was traded from Seattle to Philadelphia last week.

The NFL could discipline Bennett under the league’s personal conduct policy, regardless of the outcome of the criminal case.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...elderly-woman/

I wonder if JJ Watt had been the guy who did this if he'd have an indictment for his arrest today....?

when reached for comment, Bennett claimed he himself was pushed by a Grey Alien, which cause him to fall into the paralyzed woman.

Wasn't he up for Man of The Year?

They're not bringing felony charges because he just kind bumped her or some shit, he had to have been pretty rough... with a handicapped old woman

Maybe. When lawsuits are filed 14 months after the fact, there's always doubt as to what happened.

I would assume that they have the incident on camera.

If not, it could be difficult to prove in court.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Houston police said that it took over a year to indict Michael Bennett because other cases were prioritized. Said there was no video of the alleged incident, but that a police officer was a witness. Said Bennett pushed two other guards along with 66-year-old paraplegic woman.</p>&mdash; Jeff McLane (@Jeff_McLane) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jeff_McLane/status/977279215694434309?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

No video, word of a multi-millionaire vs. word of an off duty cop and paraplegic "security" woman.

This should end well.

This is the same guy who tried to smear the Las Vegas PD by claiming they roughed him up for no good reason, then the video came out showing him to be a flat out liar... I wouldnt put anything past him

(btw, not to derail things but check the panda express thread and tell me if LA still has Dollar Bowl if you would)

Oh, I totally agree. This is going to be a mess for Bennett and most likely, the city of a Houston.

I just don’t understand why the stadium management/NFL officials would sign off on a 66 year old female paraplegic as security.

Yeah, its hard to understand the calculus they were using to hire that woman as 'security', most likely just a form a charity to help people like her make a little money... but maybe ticket taker would've been more appropriate

The Bennett getting arrested thing really needs it's own thread. This is a mega-story that will probably dominate NFL news for awhile.

Don’t......

Houston is 25% Black.

I tend to doubt he’s convicted.

1) Shoukder strain, lol.

2) Pretty dodgy they didn’t review the video.

https://deadspin.com/grandstanding-h...t-m-1824034509

I smell a bogus money grab

What a garbage article, gotta love how it completely leaves out how the Las Vegas situation went down... and how Bennett was proven a liar