{"id":9094,"date":"2014-02-12T09:15:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T14:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=9094"},"modified":"2014-02-12T09:15:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T14:15:31","slug":"michael-bennett-not-willing-to-take-discount-to-stay-with-seahawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/02\/12\/michael-bennett-not-willing-to-take-discount-to-stay-with-seahawks\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bennett not willing to take discount to stay with Seahawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9095\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9095\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9095\" alt=\"michaelbennett\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/michaelbennett.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/michaelbennett.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/michaelbennett-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/02\/michaelbennett-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Seattle Seahawks defensive lineman Michael Bennett made it clear that he was not willing to take a hometown discount to stay with the Super Bowl champs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no such thing as discount. This is not Costco, this is not Walmart \u2013 this is real life\u2026There is no discount really because you go out there and you don\u2019t give a discount on effort; you go out there and you give the best effort every day and you fight for your teammates, and you want to be compensated for the way that you perform and the kind of teammate you are.\u201d said Bennett (via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.seattletimes.com\/seahawks\/2014\/02\/11\/michael-bennett-this-is-not-costco\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Seattle Times<\/a>) on\u00a0NFL Network\u2019s NFL Total Access.<\/p>\n<p>While Bennett, 28, has expressed a desire to stay in Seattle, these comments make it clear that he wants the best deal available. He has a 50\/50 chance of returning to the Seahawks in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett had 8.5 sacks with 31 tackles and a fumble recovery in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Seahawks defensive lineman Michael Bennett made it clear that he was not willing to take a hometown discount to stay with the Super Bowl champs. \u201cThere is no such thing as discount. This is not Costco, this is not Walmart \u2013 this is real life\u2026There is no discount really because you go out there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,649,216,158],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-9094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-michael-bennett","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-seattle-seahawks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9094"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}