We are cutting Knox in the off-season so we'll have a spot open on the roster for a backup making $13M a year. Bernard can fill that spot. Hopefully he's started his last game for us, the defense is just better when he's not on the field.
Beane has handed out a lot of bad contracts, this may be the worst. A small, injury prone LB coming off a bad season, and he paid him 2x his market value when he was still under contract for another year.