Thread: Martellus Bennett actually kind of sucks

Originally Posted by MartybennetBear

He drops the ball a lot and struggles to separate when defenders get into his body

Kellen Davis anyone?

Spoiler

Btw

Brandon Marshall is usually near the top of the NFL in drops. But the guy is an absolute stud WR who more than makes up for those drops. Bennett is a guy like this. Yes, he'll drop some balls, but he will more than make up for these.

Actually, if you look at some of the stats for the greatest receivers to play the game, you'd be surprised by how many had a significant percentage of drops. At least I found this surprising. But they were guys who more than made up for the drops.

Originally Posted by ZifanQ

Damn he had some nasty drops, however I think every player has some moment where they drop a ball they should have cought. Also even if he does drop a lot he is still better than Davis.

The way I see it we paid Davis about $3 mil last year to drop about every other pass thrown to him. Bennett got $2.5 mil and actually caught more passes than the total of the both the catches and drops Davis had. Based on that alone Bennett comes out ahead.......way ahead.

He's getting an average of $4.6 mil per year guaranteed against injury for his first two years here. If he pulls in 50 balls and year and scores 5-6 TDs or more each year then we're getting what we're paying for. And to that we can add his blocking skills which are as good or better than his receiving skills which allowed us to release TWO other TEs and not have to have one who blocks best and one who catches best.

The OP is an obvious troll and that was an obvious troll post. He won't be back and if he does come back he won't be welcomed with open arms by me at any rate.

Edit: Maybe we should run some highlights of Jermichael Finley too. There a guy who has some butter fingers and he's looking for WR kind of money. Bennett can be every bit as good or better and he comes a lot cheaper.

Originally Posted by kevperro

Why don't we let the guy put on a Bears uniform and play a couple games before we declare him a bust.

I don't think any of us did kev it was the OP who by his handle alone you can tell is NOT a Bears fan. You're a Bears fan so would that have been your first post as a way of introducing yourself if you intended to stick around? Not likely huh?