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Brock and Dave weigh in on Michael Bennett, Pete Carroll

Apr 19, 2018, 4:41 PM

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Filling in on the Dori Monson Show, Brock Huard and Dave Wyman gave different takes on former Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett after the recent revelation that he read books during team meetings because he had already heard everything Head Coach Pete Carroll had to say.

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Dave argued that showing such blatant insolence is a slap in the face to the coach and the other team-members.

“Your job as a veteran, especially when you get paid $7-10 million a year, is to sell that to the younger guys  … He was in there trying to be openly insubordinate and it’s a horrible message to the younger guys,” Dave said. “To me it comes off as horribly ungrateful to a coach who did a lot for you and gave you a chance to win the Superbowl.”

Brock, on the other hand, said that the root of the problem lay with the team’s leader.

“That kind of open disobedience, I kind of turn it fairly quickly to Pete and wonder, ‘How does that happen in your locker room?'” Brock said.

Brock compared the action to a child throwing a tantrum in the aisle of a grocery store, saying that the fault lies with the parent rather than the child.

“In that moment, your snap judgment is on what – is it on the parent or on the brat?” Brock asked.

Dave called the metaphor a “corrupt comparison.”

“He’s a grown man – you make $10 million a year and you can’t do your job?” Dave said. “He’s not a child. Michael Bennett — it’s 1,000 percent on him.”

Brock, however, stuck with the analogy.

“Parenting and coaching I think do have some similarities … you think you’ve got your perfect way figured out and your kid is never gonna have a tantrum,” Brock countered. “But there’s no perfect playbook to handle all of those moves.”

Dave still was not convinced.

“To me it was all just a big show because [Bennett] is being openly rebellious,” he said.

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