The Patriots Get Martellus Bennett Back. Cue the Duckboats!
Former Packers’ TE Martellus Bennett claimed on waivers by the New England Patriots, per source.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) November 9, 2017
Belichick, you diabolical genius. You brilliant maniac. Orchestrating this whole thing. Probably from the time he let Martellus Bennett go after Super Bowl LI. Let him go cash in on his Patriots success on some other team’s dime. Then at exactly the right moment, spring the trap that brings him back to win you yet another title.
Like I wrote yesterday when we Bennett was let go by Green Bay, we need him back here. To be the bookend tight end opposite Gronk. To be a receiving presence to make up for the loss of Edelman. To block. To be that versatile Y-tight end option that defenses don’t know if he’s going out for a pass or staying home in pass protection, so you have to account for him with multiple guys on every play.
But also just to be Martysaurus Rex. The guy from The Imagination Agency. The musical genius who brought us “Dinosaurs and Dynamite.”
Clearly he wanted nothing to do with wasting what is probably his final year in the NFL. Once Aaron Rodgers went down, he wasn’t about to spend his final weeks losing games along side Brett Hundley. So he did the Al Czervik “Oh! My arm! It’s broken!” thing. Hit the open market. And managed to slide past 30 other teams into the waiting arms of the coach that got the most out of him.
Well done, once again, by The Hooded One. Everything that has transpired has done so according to his design.