Fact 1: The defense allowed 41 points in the Super Bowl, second most of any Belichick Pats team in his 18 years, regular season or playoff.
Fact 2: With Butler playing CB#1 last year we allowed 15,6 points per game, number one in the league.
Fact 3: With Butler playing CB#1 for 3 games and CB #2 for the rest, this defense allowed 14.4 points in the last 14 games, number one in the league. 17 per game in the playoffs.
Butler is out, the entire defense is rearranged and it performs at an all time worst level, and people have the temerity to argue that Belichick was right in thinking Butler should be out and that it’s a good decision?
Once again, a defense that allowed 14.4 points in the last 14 games allowed 41 points and the only missing link was Butler.
The domino effect ruined the defense, ruined the team and whatever Butler did or didn’t do, whether he looked bad in training or not, the coaching stuff sabotaged the players, the fans, the entire organization by not making a change that they could have easily done it when it was obvious, OBVIOUS, that things were not working and we were getting exposed.