This is rich considering it's coming from someone who has been living with hurt, little feelings for months about a passing comment some guy made on a message board. Now you're rehashing them like some scorned woman coming back into the fold after her husband beat her (which I guess is the equivalent of what's going on here). I'm going to go ahead and take a wild guess that this is all coming from the inferiority complex comment I made a couple of weeks ago. Hit close to home, huh?
Oh cool. Go find the post and link it so we can all see it. This exact one where I said that it didn't matter what Belichick did. I'll wait.
I asked you to justify why you thought Butler is a CB2 and your response was to cite something the Pats have done since Belichick has been the head coach and did with Revis. Using this outstanding logic, Sherman is also not a CB1 because he doesn't trail the WR1 through huge chunks of the game, either. Try again. And try harder because honestly this is one of the easiest ass whippings I've ever delivered.
WR1's that Butler has been tasked with covering since 2015:
Antonio Brown x3
Allen Robinson
T.Y. Hilton
Brandon Marshall
Jarvis Landry
OBJ
D. Thomas/E. Sanders
Hopkins
Larry Fitzgerald
A.J. Green
He shadowed these guys sometimes with a safety shading over the top and sometimes in a Cover-1 look where there was no safety help. Saying that he had it is weak as hell, too, since even the best corners in the league get safety help. Since Revis has been used as an example, even in his absolute prime with the Jets in 2009-2011, he was given consistent safety help up top against some of the best wideouts in the game. But that's not what I asked either. I asked you to be formation specific. To be honest, I didn't expect an answer on that one since I don't think you'd recognize different formations that the typical NFL defense uses if you fell over it.
You honestly can't put together the logic that if he's an excellent CB2 here then he's CB2 regardless? You realize calling him a CB2 now
only because Gilmore, one of the few corners in the league that's better than Butler, is here now pretty much defeats whatever point you're trying to make that Butler isn't a CB1 going forward, correct? Because, in that case, Butler will be a CB1 on just about every other team including this one (as he has) had it not been for Gilmore. Finally, the Patriots must not agree with you since they're obviously not going to trade a guy that's been a pain in the ass in negotiations and isn't showing up for the offseason program for anything less than a first. Yeah... they definitely feel that he's a CB2 as well. That's the ticket.