upstater1
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You would take a guy who's been butthurt over a contract's word? That's deranged. Amendola has been doing this for many years now. He's in Asante Samuel territory. As for Belichick's words, what words are you talking about? He never talks.Watching those two individuals for many years here, If you believe Bill Belichick's public words more than Danny Amendola's, then there are many Nigerian Princes ready to email you offers for money.
Hell - - Belichick is LITERALLY caught in a lie to the interviewer onscreen at 29:52 of the episode.
This is the same head coach who stonewalled Kraft on Hernandez and continued to argue for Antonio Brown even AFTER his harrassment emails to a woman were made public the week after he got here. Don't even get me started on how many times he overlooked Josh Gordon walking out on the team. So please spare us the sanctimony of him benching Butler 10 minutes before kickoff of SB52 (btw, Butler WAS running drills with the first unit on the field that night in pregame).
And you cleverly cherrypicked Slater's sandwiched quote on the subject in the episode.
The sentence preceding the part your referenced Slater says (at 26:31) "As players, I know that we all felt that Malcolm should be out there"
At 28:06 he continues "Seeing how the game is transpiring is like 'well man we kinda need him IN there right now - - can we get him in there to stop the bleeding?"
Once again, if he planned not to use Butler in SB52, why did he not activate a very useful Alan Branch??? Blount torched the Pats straight up the middle (gee, who could've helped there???) for 90yrd on 14 carries (6.4 avg) and 1 TD that night.
Belichick should have been ****canned that night before the last piece of confetti dropped. He was a mad genius - - and he encompassed both words of that term. Yes, the Patriots probably don't get the SB the next year - - who knows? But they would probably have kept Brady a few more years and they should have won SB 52 if he wasn't so "mad".
Those are objective FACTS. Not the opinion of certitude and conjecture you posted. It is what it is. If you want to close your eyes and believe your conjectures, go ahead. But most of us aren't buying the creative conjecture your selling. The FACTS don't back you up.
I have no doubt players wanted Butler in there, but, "it's a coaching decision. And at the end of the day, he's out coach."
You're the one full of conjecture, not me.
And you wanted him fired after '17 no matter if it meant no Super Bowl?
I'm starting to doubt you guys are even Patriot fans.