NFL.com appear Sunday that things absolutely may be advanced with Ian Rapoport Tweeting that the aggregation and Bennett’s new agents at Relativity Sports met this anniversary at the NFL combine.That’s no abruptness as drillmaster Pete Carroll said if he met the media on Thursday that he had had some talks with Bennett at the Pro Bowl and did not abjure that the aggregation ability plan on a new accord for him, but said that the abstract and chargeless bureau would acceptable be added actual priorities than redoing accepted contracts.
Bennett declared generally endure off-season and division that he was black with his accepted contract, a four-year accord account $28.5 actor he active in March, 2014. Bennett accustomed he anticipation about captivation out afore chief to address and again axis in a division in which he was as admired as any amateur on the aegis while earning his aboriginal Pro Bowl bid. Bennett afresh accursed acclaimed abettor Drew Rosenhaus and active instead with Hendrickson and Relativity Sports, who forth with Lynch aswell represented Marcus Trufant, a allotment of others.
Indications are that Bennett hoped the change ability activation an accomplishment to renegotiate his arrangement — Hendrickson aswell formed out a new accord for Lynch in 2015 as able-bodied as alterations to his accord that concluded a week-long adjudicator in 2014.
The Seahawks accept about taken a attitude adjoin redoing affairs that accept added than a year actual due in ample allotment to the antecedent it would set. It’s a not aberrant policy, with teams activity they would be ambidextrous with a abiding beck of players absent to accommodate their affairs if they accomplish a addiction of ripping up deals that accept added than a year remaining.
But there has been a anticipation that the aggregation would be acquiescent to redoing a arrangement with Bennett for at atomic two reasons: 1, as a accolade for the actuality that he appear and again set abreast his dejection to play at an aristocratic akin (and in adverse to the adjudicator of assurance Kam Chancellor); 2, an extension/new arrangement could be structured in a way that it would accord the Seahawks some bacon cap abatement in 2016 and 2017 (Bennett’s accord has cap hits of $7 actor and $9.5 actor the next two seasons) which could be beheld as a win for anniversary side.
Asked at the amalgamate Thursday about Bennett switching agents and if he had talked with him, Carroll said: “Yeah, we accept visited. Visited over there at the Pro Bowl, you know. And a nice little break there. Turned out an MVP achievement – not on offense, on defense. Michael’s accomplishing good. Mike’s got business. I account the heck out him. He did a abundant job this season, and we’re searching advanced to addition big year.”
And asked if he would wish to address Bennett for arena admitting getting black with his arrangement situation, Carroll said: “Well, Mike did all the things he’s declared to do, you know. And he did it with a flair. I adulation that he brought leadership. He brought abundant activity – and absolutely agitating consistency, too – to our season. We’d like to accolade everybody. Can’t consistently do that.”
Carroll aswell said the timing of the off-season could beggarly that redoing arrangement deals would appear after rather than sooner.
“We’ve got a lot of plan to do,” he said. “Really, the guys who are beneath arrangement can’t be the first-priority guys appropriate now, in any order. We are absolutely digging in, aggravating to accumulate our aggregation together. And that will consistently be the way we go about it. We adulation Kam, and Mike – the question, you brought that up – we adulation those guys. And we are traveling to do all we can to accomplish abiding they can break with us.”
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