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Butler was so terrible, Belichick had him play the most snaps (97.8%) of any defensive player, including McCourty. Makes perfect sense. Lol
Must of been something significant that prompted the sudden change what do you think that might have been?
He didn't cancel anything. He chose to start a week later to make sure all his coaches (of which there's a ton of new ones) were on the same page. There's four other teams w/ new HCs that chose the same start.
Haha, typical Karen.
I see what you did there lol well played
100%. Short of murder or rape, there's zero reasons to bench your starting LCB for the ENTIRE SB!
If I'm not mistaken, Steve was the secondary coach at the time meaning he was working directly with Butler. if Butler was insubordinate to and/or got into a fight with Bill's son, that might make the old man see red enough to do something in response.
If it was reasonable, we would know.
Sorry Ian, but Cassell was not a good QB. He's 144th amongst QBs in hof ranking. Only you would time travel 2008 Cassell and compare him to 2020 Newton (29th ranked). Cassell is also not better than Testaverde (52nd ranked). Cassell also had a roster that had just won 16 games the previous season. Or are you imagining the entire 2008 team playing in 2022-23? Lol
To Belichick's sycophants, any mention of facts, reality, or his (God forbid) mistakes, is a direct and personal frontal attack on Belichick driven by a hate filled agenda. Lol
I didn't say he was a great QB - but he was good here in this system. Again, looking at what they tried to do with Mac and how good their defense was, I would say he might have been adequate as a guy they could have started and continued drafting behind, potentially landing a Garoppolo-esque guy down the road to potentially transition to.
But would he have stopped 1 or 2 3rd down conversions? They went 10-16 and 2-2 on 4th.
It wasn't but a dozen or so pages ago, you were raving about Testaverde, who is better than Vick and Smith. Me saying Cassell is avg is a good thing for Bill, since he actually won with him. Cam was a good QB despite his fall off in 2020. Bill certainly raved about him. Bottom line is none of these QBs are HOFers, which is what everyone is arguing, that no HC did great w/o their HOF QB. Fine, so how did they do with these non-elite QBs?
You never lose because of 1 reason.
The problem I see with your example is that you're imagining the 2008 Cassell, that played with the 2007 SB roster.
I was just saying Cassel (one L - just looked it up and realized I got it wrong earlier) was a good comp to our other discussion, and a player who - if they had the '08-'10' version of him instead of Mac - probably would have ended up in a better spot, and maybe we're viewing it differently. I would call him a non-elite QB, but one who they absolutely could have won more games with last season.
