It seems the agents are telling the GB FAs to visit Seattle and a division rival.
Losing Lang/Tretter was out of Ted's control and love the 5th rounder for Hyde.
Signing Perry was necessary; at 12M per, it was a necessary evil.
Kendricks-I'm skeptical, but he's working out with Rodgers as we speak. He really wanted to come here. Kendricks' problems to date have been 90% mental and the rest was in his head. Like Cook, he's has moments where he does everything right, he flashes his potential and then slinks back to suck. If he could flash a little more and slink back to average, instead of suck, then he's gonna cost some $$$ to resign next year.
Bennett is a huge signing; if he can behave/mesh and learn the playbook and the nuances of the offense he is infinitely better at receiving than Finley, Franks, Chmura, Jackson [as a Packer] or Cook, who is/was the TJ Rubely of TEs. Actually Jackson in his prime is a good comparison, but Bennett is 3-4 inches taller. If Bennett played for stud QBs over his career, he'd have HOF stats.
Bennett has an incredible catch radius and hands, he has Randy Moss type/Chris Carter skills to go up and get and fight for the ball. When he's in the game blocking, going for the ball, whatever, he is just an animal. He's a street fighter. He'll miss some; but he's the best blocker we've had since Ed West and he is infinitely better than the aforementioned pass catching TEs at blocking. He really understands leverage on his routes, and because of it he gets open deep. Bennett is the total package; best since Paul Coffman!
3rd and 3, 3rd and 5, on a curl Bennett cannot be covered by any human. Dont know NE and Chicago offenses well enough to determine if he's running routes correctly. But, he had a better catch rate than Gronk for all 3 NE QBs and in his only year he worked numerous back shoulder throws with Brady. In 12, 13, 14, 16 ['15 he was not happy] he was tops or near tops on the team in catch rate; where a guy like Cook was near the bottom of every team he'd been on.
Bennett is just still so pissed at his suspension from Bears in 2015 for what he sees as a wrong done to him; his goal in NE was to make Chicago regretting trading him. And now he's coming to GB to shove it in their face close and personal for the next 5-6-7 years, get 6-7,000 yards and go to HOF.
Over-Under: 100 catches 1200 yards 10 TDs [Assuming Rodgers is QB]