Michael Bennett Discusses Why It Didn't Work Out With Patriots On Felger & Mazz
Felger & Massarotti
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🗓️ 29 January 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Former Patriots defensive end Michael Bennett joined Felger & Mazz for an interview on Radio Row at the Super Bowl in Miami. Bennett spoke in depth about why he believes it didn't work out for him in New England and the relationship he had with the Pats' coaching staff. He also reveals one Patriot whom he felt deserved to be in the Pro Bowl this season.
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| 0:00.0 | B-Pod Studios |
| 0:03.0 | So Michael Benz |
| 0:09.3 | Join us in the Apex Entertainment guest chair |
| 0:11.6 | Mike, am I putting that on for me? |
| 0:15.4 | Are you going? |
| 0:16.0 | How you doing, Mike? |
| 0:16.6 | Good, I'm doing good. |
| 0:18.1 | And is it, I'm sorry, Pelle? |
| 0:20.2 | Peleck. Belichick overrated. What is what? He's looking at my call screen. Oh, my God. Harry Swans, he says Belichick's overrated. Is he overrated? Harry, come on, man. This is basically Bill Belichick is the architect of winning in the NFL. I don't think there's a more winning his coach in this generation. You know, there's Lombardy and then there's Belichick. I mean... So what happened with you and him then this year? I don't think nothing happened with me and Belichick. I just think it was just, I didn't fit into the schematically. They changed a whole other it was a whole other defense that people had never seen before. Really, honestly, a defense where you had one defense lineman, two, three linebackers down, like, it was just an attack. |
| 0:58.9 | It was just a different defense. So I just I guess I didn't fit into that defensive scheme. Was it a two-gapping thing? They asked you a two-gaping? Yeah, I think two gaping is another thing. |
| 1:06.6 | But I just think we didn't have a lot of defense lineman on the field. |
| 1:09.1 | We would have Lawrence guy, maybe two, |
| 1:10.8 | maybe sometimes we only had one defense alignment on the field in the game. |
| 1:14.0 | So it was just not another one. I just think we didn't have a lot of defense linemen on the field. We would have Lawrence guy, maybe two, maybe sometimes we only had one defense lineman on the field in the game. |
| 1:28.7 | So it was just not enough room for everybody. So do you think it's a case that my question then would be, then why did they trade for you if they were going to play that scheme? You follow me? I think things change. I think Belichick is not going to. He can start off with one mindset and then look at the what's better for the team. |
| 1:30.2 | Do we have a lot of defense linemen? |
| 1:28.7 | Do we have enough defense linemen to? I think Belichick is not going to. He can start off with one mindset and then look at what's better for the team. |
| 2:02.3 | Do we have a lot of defense linemen? Do we have enough defense alignment to rotate eight? Or do we have more linebackers? And I feel like they had more linebackers than they actually had defense alignment. So I feel like that was a better scheme for that because if we try to do what we had, rotating eight defense alignment like the Cowboys, it wouldn't have worked out as good because they didn't have eight defense alignment. We didn't have four defensive ends who could rush the passer every single time. We had one or two, but we had more linebackers and more guys who were able to stand up, I felt like. How was your relationship with Brett Bima? Brett is a cool guy, man. I think we just, we are two people who believe it's something strongly. |
| 2:16.4 | I'm a guy who wants to be on the field. I'm a guy who wants to play. I'm a guy. If I go through practice, I want to be able to be out there. I just think I'm just somebody, I just, for me, the situation was in a great situation. I came for Philly where it was like we played the four three defense and we just rest the passer all the time. |
| 2:17.7 | So is he wanted to work with you guys? |
| 2:19.2 | We were also, we worked there. |
| 2:20.2 | I did not in style. |
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