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Saints News, 4/10/15: Seahawks DE Michael Bennett Feels The Same About Jimmy Graham

“I still feel the same way,” Bennett said. “Just because he’s on my team I don’t stop feeling that way. Obviously I’m going to be a better teammate to him because he’s on my team. I can’t do the things I was doing to him when we were playing him. But obviously when he comes to our team he’s a part of our team so we have a different philosophy than they had with the Saints so the things he was expected to do with the Saints are going to be different when he comes here. Obviously we are a running team so he is going to have to block and do all those things. I don’t feel as harsh as I did at the time because he’s my teammate now but at the time he was on time opposite team and were pretty good and we battled with him a couple of times and I didn’t really like that too much.”

By David "Satch" Kelly
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Mel Kiper Jr. the latest to pair <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Saints?src=hash">#Saints</a> with OLB Randy Gregory in mock draft - but I still consider that a long shot <a href="http://t.co/DSqr18DOBp">http://t.co/DSqr18DOBp</a></p>&mdash; Mike Triplett (@MikeTriplett) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeTriplett/status/586531195086737408">April 10, 2015</a></blockquote>

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>"<a href="https://twitter.com/JonVilma51">@JonVilma51</a>: It&#39;s official....so blessed <a href="http://t.co/jetIYK0d7Z">pic.twitter.com/jetIYK0d7Z</a>" Well deserved! An Unbelievable leader and an even better man. Congrats!</p>&mdash; Jimmy Graham (@TheJimmyGraham) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheJimmyGraham/status/586485148629217281">April 10, 2015</a></blockquote>

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Saints wanted to go to Baltimore early last year b/c it&#39;s relatively close to the Greenbrier but it didn&#39;t work out</p>&mdash; Katherine Terrell (@Kat_Terrell) <a href="https://twitter.com/Kat_Terrell/status/586257765942833152">April 9, 2015</a></blockquote>

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