Tyler.Durden

For 2 weeks straight he has been horrible and a flag magnet. I thought he may have become someone and I'm trying not to be too reactionary but he has looked lost out there.

Any chance Shawn Springs may reappear anytime soon.

emoney_33

Try harder

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letekro

He needs to play to improve. Braylon Edwards is a tough cover 1 on 1, especially when he's not dropping the ball. I don't think it's time to quit on him yet.

Nikolai

He showed promise last year, so it's earned him a chance to show this is just a slump in my mind. Apparently, BB thinks so too.

That doesn't mean I wasn't screaming for him to be yanked in the 3rd quarter.

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upstater1

I couldn't understand pass interference today. Cromartie and Revis were grabbing people out there. Butler's 1st flag looked like a good play to me, and in the end zone, it certainly looked like Edwards pushed him in the back to prevent a INT.

Ice_Ice_Brady

He found himself in a nightmare situation today where he obviously couldn't cover Edwards, and every pass seemed to be right on target. On a better team he would have been put at nickel back or gotten more help, but this defense cannot afford these luxuries. I don't think this guy will ever be a shutdown cornerback, but very few are.

Not that this is too positive, but there were no plays where athleticism was the problem. He has the speed and athletic abilities to stay with the WRs; he needs to learn when to turn his head.

BTW: Just a note on that last PI call. No way was that ball catchable, although he did interfere.

AndyJohnson

Edwards caught 5 passes for 45 yards. What do you expect a corner to hold a teams #1 receiver to?
The pass interference calls were not good calls. On the first one, he played it exactly right. The recevier stopping so he runs into him while playing the ball is not pi. The second was a foul, however should have been waived off because the pass was uncatchable, well over the recievers head.

Triumph

Dude, Butler is the weak axx link. Wake up.

No amount of stats is going to change that. Listen to those of us that follow the Pats religiously and heed what we are saying for once?

AndyJohnson

So he let up more passes than were caught?
It isnt a matter of stats, its a matter of saying he couldn't cover the guy who caught passes for fewer yards than a #1 WR typically does.
Are you saying Edwards had a tremendous game?
WRs catch passes, corners let up receptions. The average team throws for more than 200 yards each game. Corners allow completions. 5 is not a lot.

Ice_Ice_Brady

He was today, but look around the NFL and see how many corners are burned one week and look great the next. I wouldn't say he's the weak link, although he was terrible today. There are shutdown corners, who are extremely few and far between (they rarely let up big plays), and then there are good corners who still get burned a lot (the NFL is such a passing league now.) I think delusions of Butler being Revis or Woodson-like are evaporating, but he still may be a good cornerback. Ty Law and Asante Samuel were not great for a few years.