{"id":20118,"date":"2013-03-19T09:18:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T13:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20118"},"modified":"2013-03-19T09:24:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T13:24:45","slug":"michael-bennett-puzzled-by-tampa-bay-buccaneers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20118","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bennett Puzzled By Tampa Bay Buccaneers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Michael Bennett<\/strong> originally said he\u2019d give the Tampa Bay Buccaneers a chance to match any offer he received in free agency. Then he signed with the Seattle Seahawks without saying a word to his previous team. Best of the rest: Top available free agents Take a look at the best remaining free agents and see where they might land.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey acted like they didn\u2019t want me, so no, I didn\u2019t go back to them,\u201d <strong>Bennett <\/strong>told Tampa Tribune reporter <strong>Roy Cummings<\/strong> on Friday. \u201cI just didn\u2019t feel any love from them at all. And that\u2019s kind of disappointing, because for a team that you put everything you had into for four years to do that, you\u2019re just kind of, \u2018OK, whatever.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou do everything you can to grow as a player and get better as a player and you prove yourself over and over again for them, but I guess that\u2019s just who they are.\u201d <strong>Bennett <\/strong>led the Bucs with nine sacks and three forced fumbles last season. The defensive end added a career-high 41 tackles.<\/p>\n<p>The Bucs lost another starter when defensive tackle <strong>Roy Miller <\/strong>signed a two-year contract with the Jacksonville Jaguars. <strong>Bennett<\/strong> agreed to a one-year, $5 million deal with the Seahawks in hopes of finding a more fruitful market in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Bennett originally said he\u2019d give the Tampa Bay Buccaneers a chance to match any offer he received in free agency. Then he signed with the Seattle Seahawks without saying a word to his previous team. Best of the rest: Top available free agents Take a look at the best remaining free agents and see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}