AP

Bears tight end Martellus Bennett will face his original team when the Cowboys come to town on Thursday night, and one of Bennett’s teammates says that Bennett can show Dallas just how great a player it let get away.

Marshall told Dallas reporters on a conference call that Bennett is the NFL’s best tight end, and the Cowboys were foolish to let him leave.

“I don’t know why you guys let this boy go,” Marshall said. “He’s the best tight end in the league. Y’all been watching him? Freaking maniac. Nobody can tackle him.”

Cowboys fans would say that not only is Bennett not the best tight end in the NFL, but that he was never even the best tight end in Dallas, with Jason Witten on the team. Bennett now says he was limited by playing with Witten.

“I didn’t have room to be myself,” Bennett said. “They always told me, ‘Do it like Witten. Be like Witten.’ I think they had a guy who played tight end the right way and they wanted me to do it exactly like him. But really if you try to imitate someone else, you can never really be who you are. Being a young player coming out of college — turning 21 after the draft and trying to change everything up to be like someone else – that’s just not the way to go in anything in life. Dr. Seuss said, ‘No one can be ‘youer’ than you.’”

Bennett will have an opportunity to show the Cowboys exactly who he is on Thursday.