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Originally Posted by TekeRam

First off, last year a lot of people were paid to produce and didn't. Not all of them were hurt. Not all of them were players. As for Bennett's case, just watch when a high profile receiver hurts his hammy in this upcoming year. The reporters will remind people that the injury usually lasts all year. That's what happened to Bennett. You can come back from the injury, but it hurts your explosiveness and speed all year long.

As for how much he's costing, his cap charge is almost $2M under what Bruce would have cost had we kept him. He's just slightly above what the Whiners signed him for. He's much younger and will be a player on this team for years to come. It's important that he start earning the money we have given him by becoming a starter on this team. Everyone got so angry that we paid him so much to be our third receiver. No we paid him to eventually take over for Bruce. Now everyone's mad that he'll actually earn the paycheck that he gets. Bruce meant a lot more to the fans than he did to the franchise. He has been a great player for many many years but now he's declined. If you want to win, sometime you need to make sacrifices, and Bruce ended up becoming one, by his choice. Should we have kept asking him to restructure? Maybe not. But the fact remains, he wasn't going to be performing up to the level of his cap charge. Give Bennett the chance to do that.

Simply what I was trying to say this entire time.