He signed a 2yr 10m contract with Raiders. And then a 2yr 15m contract with Saints. We weren't even offering him half of market value.
And now we have Graham at 3y 30m deal whereas we could have gotten a lot more productive years had we done proper negotiation with Cook for a lot cheaper.
And Cook made it clear that he never turned down a contract from us. I doubt we even negotiated properly once we signed Bennett.
You don’t know what was offered and neither do I. The only person saying he didn’t turn something down was Cook. There were other reports that he wasn’t accepting offers either.
There was also a report the Packers told Bennett they preferred to sign their own guys and were focused on Cook. When it became apparent Cool wasn’t going to sign the signed Bennett. And not cheaply, so drop the cheap bit, it wasn’t the case at all.
I really, really doubt the Packers told Bennet, we’re not going to offer you a contract because we’re interested in Cook and risk losing him to someone else. Only to try and lowball cook with what you presume was a 2 million dollar contract? And then turn around and give 7 million to Bennett.
It makes no sense at all.
