News surrounding tight end Martellus Bennett will never end, will it? We are still dealing with the entire medical team debacle he started after leaving the Green Bay Packers, and yet here we are, with the (now) New England Patriots talent claiming he didn't want to be picked up on waivers.
“When Bill called and said they claimed me, I was like, ‘No [bleeping] way,’” Bennett said, via Phill Perry of NBC Sports Boston. “Then he was like, ‘What’s going on?’ And I told him . . . We had a quick conversation and I was just like, ‘Let me think about it and I’ll call you back.’
“Even then, it wasn’t like, ‘Hey, you want to come?’ It was like, ‘Let me just call you back in a few minutes. Give me a chance to think about it and regroup.’ Because I don’t even know if I went through the seven stages of grief yet. I’m probably on Step 3.
“I think the group of guys on this team couldn’t be a better place for me to, with what I’m going through right now, this situation, it couldn’t be a better place for me, all the familiar faces and friends and things like that. It’s been good to have those guys around.”
Everything involving Martellus Bennett this season has been strange. It really has. From an outsider's view, it is hard to take anything he says at this point with anything other than a grain of salt.
To give him the benefit of the doubt on this one, maybe he was just being honest about his feelings after being released.
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