The Bennett brothers are not shy about giving their opinions, with both using the media platform to rip quarterbacks to shred over the last few days.
Michael Bennett recently ripped “mediocre” quarterbacks, who are all paid to much. This time Martellus had a question for all the free thinkers out there.
“Why does everyone always assume the quarterback is the leader?” Bennett asked during a wide-ranging interview with Chicago Magazine’s Jeff Ruby, published this week. “Leading the offense and leading the team are two different things. Sometimes I like Cutty, and sometimes I don’t. When I think of a leader, I think, ‘If he started a company, would guys come to work for him?’ There’s a lot of guys on our team who, if they started a business, it’d be, ‘F— you, I’m gonna go work at McDonald’s.'”
Bennett elaborated more, and it sounds like Jay Cutler is just the guy that gets his teammates lined up in the right spots.
“There are veterans that people follow,” Bennett said after a long pause, per Ruby, “and then you’ve got guys that lead the offense, get everyone lined up, get to your spot, do what you need to do, let’s do our plays.”
Bennett makes a good point, without totally throwing Cutler under the bus. Some of the best quarterbacks in the game have simply been good signal callers. That doesn’t mean they led their teams.
