Gale Sayers is a day or two behind everybody else, but it's never too late to take a few shots at Cedric Benson. The Hall of Fame Bears running back was the fourth-overall pick in the 1965 draft, exactly 40 years before the team selected Benson in the first round. Draft status is where the similarities end between the two, however, which helps explain why Sayers isn't losing any sleep over Benson's fate: " George Halas wouldn't have given Benson that many chances and our [former Bears] players wouldn't have given him that many chances," Sayers said of his former coach and NFL founder. "When a player did something wrong, we would get on them.Money couldn't buy Benson out of all those four-yard losses, which, I guess, proves Sayers' point.
"I don't feel sorry for [Benson]. He has a lot of money, which a lot of players today think is the only thing that counts. He thinks money can buy himself out of anything he gets into. It is very, very sad."
In any event, Benson's still unemployed, and unless the Patriots decide to save his career, he could be kickin' it on the couch for the foreseeable future. If there's anything positive Benson can take from all this: at least Sayers has earned the right to call him out; it's much less embarrassing than having Rashaan Salaam point and gawk, I'd think.
