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If you think BB does everything with saintly motives and pure intentions, then you are swallowing the cool-aid. I love and appreciate BB as much as any Pats fan, but he does have a vindictive and stubborn underbelly. Everyone has an ego. And the mantra "best for the football team" works at the podium, but is not always accurate. Exhibit A - benching Butler in a SB that would have created 3 straight (when Rowe was getting torched every play). Point is: BB is as old school as they come, earning your due and humble pie is essential to his philosophy. So yes, he would most certainly keep Cam as the starter for a month or more even if Josh & Co. say that Mac could run their offense as well - for the long term sake of Mac and the team.
And that's doing him the huge favor of not assuming much of a permanent decline in 20. Hey there is a possibility that it's all down to COVID, the new system, and the dearth of weapons. But can he come back big with medium weapons? I mean, once an nfl defense is covering them, and trying to rush him, real-time?
Because then this team would hate its coach.
It was a post that first provided information, as he said he knows someone in the org.
He was disappointed that Mac hasn’t surpassed Cam. Why wouldn’t he be? Cam is a bridge/stopgap starter, confirmed by his ice cold free agent market and that they used a first round pick. We know what Cam is…he isn’t the answer. He‘s a good bargain backup/spot starter.
You’re welcome to do that yourself. Though Patriots fandom isn’t measured by one’s faith in Bill…and you’ve used this same reasoning to justify every poor decision Bill has made the last few years without even arguing on the decision’s merit itself. “I trust Bill will make the right decision” is fine in itself if that’s your thing - but it ‘s such a weak way to disparage someone else’s viewpoint. No one here thinks they’re smarter than Bill Belichick about personnel decisions. It doesn’t mean Bill has no blind spots either.
I definitely gave Newton the benefit of a bunch of doubts. Here's that same time period, except by year:
His version of best for the team and yours may differ. That doesn’t mean he isn’t doing what’s best for the team.
I don’t think you understand the depression but it is real. If after watching Newton in 2020, we go through another season where he’s the best we’ve got, that is incredibly depressing both in terms of our chance for success as well as the prospects for our 1st round Qb, who wouldn’t be able to exceed a very low bar.
Exactly. None of us wants to watch that again. I want this to be Mac's team as soon as possible. I just hope Bill is not so stubborn and committed to Cam that we waste another season.
Claiming that Butler playing would have made the difference is assuming facts not in evidence, particularly given reporting done after the fact that show he was atrocious in practice all week leading up to the game. Not to mention that he'd been pretty bad all season.
The Patriots hardly could have been any worse defensively in that game if they put me in for Butler.
Bademosi and Richards were better? We watched the game. Benching him was one thing, to stay with Bademosi and Richards was absurd.
You're basically saying that the team's choice to play almost 100% of the snaps all season (97.83%) was JAG on the squad, but never got the yank until the most important time of the season. If that were actually the case, you should have been calling for the firing of Belichick from that moment forward.
If we just put in one more Butler thread we woulda won the Super Bowl. Fact.
