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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.I can buy the idea of him trying to reign Butler in a little. But ultimately I think the length and terms of the punishment are relative to the timeframe. Bill isn't gonna have Revis miss more than 1 day of practice during the regular season... Conversely, it's OTAs, so only missing 1 day would be kind of a small "punishment". Also, he wasn't forced to go home for 3 weeks, just missing the on-field component. So really, 3 weeks of just no on-field stuff during OTAs isn't really a lot worse than 1 day of absolutely nothing during the actual season IMO. It is worse, but it's not some sort of Goodell-level over-punishment.BB is ridiculously harsh about the start times. But he has a rule and people follow it or get sent home. For whatever reason, this rule works for him.
Side note, which may or may not play a role here : BB has never seemed crazy about the celebration tours. Remember Gray's 15min ? Didn't take long to snap him back. Can it be that BB thinks MB has milked his new fame a bit more than he should have ? Or is it just "it's our rule" ?
Also, he wasn't forced to go home for 3 weeks, just missing the on-field component.
He did plan to leave a day early. For a non-mandatory event.
Care to try again?
Sitting someone for 3 weeks over a grounded plane flight, particularly when the OTA wasn't even mandatory, is a character building exercise? No, it's idiocy, which is why I hope (and would expect) that there's more to the story.
Otherwise, this is just Goodell-level overly harsh punishment being played out at the team level.
I stand by what I wrote as far as poor planning by the player. Fact is that he was late for practice and evidently no one else was.
Per Reiss: "first organized team activities practice May 26 because his flight to Boston the night before was canceled due to weather issues, according to a source close to the situation. " I don't see an extra day there.
Giardi generally doesn't know what anyone is doing.@MikeGiardi: If you hold Malcolm Butler out for 3 weeks of oTAs just b/c of a missed flight (due to weather!) then I don't know what you're doing
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?
2. I believe BB thinks Butler needs to watch a lot of game film (like Revis does) ....and that's exactly what he did the past 3 weeks.
@MikeGiardi: If you hold Malcolm Butler out for 3 weeks of oTAs just b/c of a missed flight (due to weather!) then I don't know what you're doing
Lightning. Happened to me a few years ago flying home from Ft. Myers. Scared the living s### out of me. I nearly cried out loud...How do you miss a flight due to weather in the middle of summer?
Sorry coach, it was just too rainy for me to make it to the airport on time.
Yes, he of the famous presser question to BB last September after the KC debacle, I believe, "Is it fair to say you're re-evaluating the QB position?" (I may be paraphrasing somewhat.)Giardi generally doesn't know what anyone is doing.