Howe: Butler missed flight, held out first three weeks of practice

Of course you all remember Richard Seymour being a day late from his uncle's funeral a few years back, when he entered the game 13 plays into it.. he was a one man wrecking crew..

No one player is bigger than the team.. bet he will not be late again.

Joker said:

Are we witnessing the Fall Of The Romanatriot Empire..?

Owner acting like Nero, field general forced to camp outside the city gates, leading Patrician senator acting like Crassus, slaves to the games revolting across the empire....is THIS it?

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Is Bob Kraft Caligula?

if he buries Brady in the sand up to his head and has a lawnmower chop it off, he well could be...

Whatever my SB winning coach does coming of a fresh SB win...I don't care. He knows what he is doing. Its just a story just like Jimmy G throwing 5 INTS in the OTAs. And its not like they are practicing everyday for 3 weeks.

3 weeks for a missed flight? What's he suppose to do? it's not the jetsons, he can't jump up and fly.

raduray said:

Doug Kyed@DougKyedNESN
That's a good question.

Mike@patsfan71284
@DougKyedNESN @MikeGiardi how can u be punished for something that isn't mandatory?

Is this an issue for the NFLPA?

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Is holding a player out of voluntary activities a punishment?

JDot said:

3 weeks for a missed flight? What's he suppose to do? it's not the jetsons, he can't jump up and fly.

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Don't be in a position where a flight cancellation makes you late to team activities?

Zeus said:

OTA for armchair GMs and coaches - an excellent opportunity for those who know more than BB to begin second guessing him now in order to get into peak condition for the upcoming season.

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DarrylS said:

Of course you all remember Richard Seymour being a day late from his uncle's funeral a few years back, when he entered the game 13 plays into it.. he was a one man wrecking crew..

No one player is bigger than the team.. bet he will not be late again.

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You guys get that this was not mandatory camp, and that the guy's flight reportedly would have gotten him into town a day before the OTAs started, not a matter of minutes or hours prior, right?

Seems pretty excessive. I have to believe that there's more to this than what is being reported.

I don't get Belichick sometime. Does making what may be the Pats' starting LCB going into his second year miss three weeks of valuable offseason reps worth it to make a point to punish him for missing a flight?

JMC00 said:

Don't be in a position where a flight cancellation makes you late to team activities?

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My post was a bit of bad Adlious thomas call back sarcasm. After re-eading said post it almost flew over my own head.

I honestly don't really care that much about this.

ffs. And to think I used to look forward to off season news rolling in.

KontradictioN said:

Seems pretty excessive. I have to believe that there's more to this than what is being reported.

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This, and I'm not worried to be honest, media paints the picture they want and we fall into it. BB knows what he is doing.

Maybe Ty Law's cousin delayed Butler at the airport....

Ross12 said:

Now after reading all the details, I'm actually breathing a huge sigh of relief. It wasn't a full ban, just a practice ban. It says in the article that he was upset that he was being held out, but is treating it as a lesson learned and has brought a positive attitude.

Thank god.

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Jonas Gray was treating it as a lesson learned and brought a positive attitude too. He never saw the field again.

To Be Continued...........

BB can't wait to drop the hammer on team heroes. I swear if I played for the Patriots in another life and had a breakout game on SNF and had the game-winning touchdown, and afterward TB12 put his arm around me while talking to Tafoya and was like "HERE'S THE KEY TO OUR SUCCESS RIGHT HERE," I would probably just sleep in my car outside the stadium for the rest of the season. Or maybe even that's too risky, because my cell phone might die and then its the Jonas Gray scenario. So maybe I would just be on a constant stream of caffeine pills and red bull and just never close my eyes. If the media ever tried to talk to me about my success I would grab their mics and throw them and shout, "DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND I'M BEING WATCHED!" I would pass BB in the halls of Gillette and get in his face and scream "YOU GOT NOTHING ON ME COACH, NOTHING" and rush around the corner to break down crying.

These are the reasons I chose a solitary life.

I just want to see how he does for the remainder of the OTA's.......Maybe BB already knows what he has in Butler and it gives more reps to the new blood....

In BB We Trust...( until the back end of the defense sucks)

Since BB is not an idiotic tyrant, there's more to the story.

My (wild azzz crazy) theory....

BB is doing his best Go-to-hell impression on punishments from now on til the end of the season or until Krafty gets the subliminal message...whichever comes first.

Very possible bb may not have 45 unsuspended players for game 1. LOL (sort of)