Martellus Bennett has never been one to shy away from any topic, as displayed by him recently trashing Jimmy Garoppolo during a podcast.
In 2017, the Green Bay Packers signed the former tight end to a three-year contract, but he never made it through his first season with them. After appearing in seven games, Bennett was waived by the Packers.
Years later, he is opening up on his short time with the team, which included him protesting during the National Anthem. Bennett thinks his tenure in Green Bay was doomed from the moment he raised his right fist just before a game against the Seattle Seahawks.
Bennett revealed he received death threats from Packers fans shortly after he protested during the national anthem.
“Packers fans were sending hate mail and leaving death threats and other hateful messages on the team voicemail because I was protesting,” Bennett tweeted. “It got so bad that Doug Collins, the head of team security, was worried something might happen to me in Wisconsin.”
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He also claims that Collins told him that Wisconsin wasn’t the right place for protests.
“Doug told me Wisconsin wasn’t the place for protesting and offered me a bunch of alternatives,” he continued. “Even holding hands and the flag with cops before the Seahawks game. I told ’em nah.”
“In fact the entire situation to get me out of Green Bay was tied to protesting and the organization plotted to find a way to cut me and came up with some bulls*** lol,” Bennett wrote.
