Content Post Dear Bill - Thanks for Giving Away the Super Bowl.

[Todd Bradley]

Belichick put the rules over the W. The problem with that is the consequences of it go beyond Butler. It affected 52 other players and millions of fans around the world, not to mention millions of eagles fans who are celebrating in the streets. I get that Bill doesn’t want to reward bad behavior and would have agreed with his actions in any other non-playoff game.

Exactly. You want to do this week 7 against the Browns? I get it.

A Super Bowl? What?
A Super Bowl where you’re getting historically rocked on defense and you need Butler’s service? Uh, hell no.

 

[pwes]

If Butler did break a rule no one would give a **** that he didn't play. The problem is that punishing him doesn't just punish him. It's affecting everyone else on the team. We can assign blame if he allegedly did do something but fact of the matter is its all moot in the end. Butler is gone and the other players lost a Super Bowl ring because Belichick needed to make a statement in the biggest game of the year and these players lives.

And I'm sorry if his transgressions were egregious enough to not see a single snap he should not have dressed. And I dont want to hear that emergency situation BS. His 'crime' is bad enough to not go in at all during the game but not bad enough to go in if a player goes down? Give me a break.

 

[Bradybranch]

It is actually illegal in all 50 states because it is a violation of federal law. The previous administration announced they will not enforce the federal law and the current administration announced they might (but AFAIK have not yet done so).

However, that does nothing to change the fact that it remains illegal under federal law in all 50 states.

Thanks for the pointless lesson

 

[Observer]

Look, my point is that among the list of violations worth losing a superbowl over, it does not crack the top 100. But more importantly, it is completely unsubstantiated rumor that people are latching on to as though it were fact.

 

[mosslost]

Sure lets let Malcolm completely off the hook. Let's not make him accountable for his actions when the other 51 players and the entire organization are doing eveything they can to win the Super Bowl.

If you want a team in which the coach is selective and arbitrary pertaining which rules to follow and behavior is appropriate go root for the Steelers, Bengals or Ravens.

Could have been one quarter like Walker. Belichick behavior basically had similar effect on the D side as Thomase Rams article SB 42 has on whole team. Amazing Brady almost overcame his coach anyway.

 

[SHOWTIME15]

You guys are claiming the defense would have improved enough to get the win, when in fact Butler was on the field for their biggest games in points allowed this season.

He was also on the field for the lowest games in points allowed.

 

[primetime]

Utter bollocks, my missus is a psychiatric nurse and sees every day the damage done by weed, she sees many people whereby they try weed once and have there life's destroyed when the chemical balance in there brains are altered by such drugs. Several are 20+year cases.

lololol

 

[Huckleberry1]

I’m the type of fan who calls out bull when I see it, not a blind Belichick apologist deciple who thinks he’s infallible of criticism.

Butler was active and dressed. Which means whatever he did, clearly wasn’t that serious. He was in the gameplan an hour before kickoff. He sat there, ready to go for the full game and was never given an opportunity to play, even though Bill saw his D getting historically shredded.

He made a horrible decision. It’s okay to criticize him and you’re not going to change my mind or the mind of a majority of fans.

I called Belichick out for being outcoached and their performance in the game, those are facts imo, and the score reflects those facts. You, on the other hand, are trying to judge things you have zero information about, and you are trying to substitute your judgement for that if the coach watching and reviewing every aspect of Butler’s performance leading up to the game. You never saw him in a meeting, you never saw him on the practice field, and you have absolutely no knowledge at all of how Butler was performing leading up to the game. In other words you are purely talking out of your ass. You have absolutely no idea at all how Butler would have performed.

 

[Big Bucks]

My father was a psychiatrist and I and other members of my family have spent years working in mental health fields, none of us have ever seen what you are claiming. The idea that marijuana is a gateway drug has been thoroughly debunked for a long long time, and that’s why it’s now being legalized across the country. What really destroys minds and bodies are pharmaceuticals, that’s why America has an opioid crisis and not a pot crisis.

Good for you, thankfully we don't live in America where people prefer to make decisions on tax dollars from weed than the safety of its citizens.

The only place for weed is as a pain relief for other more life threatening problems.

 

[pwes]

you prefer to spread the story that belichick benched him for no reason?

I mean those are Belichick's own words (essentially: game plan) so yes. It's better than spreading unverified rumors of weed and showing up to the game drunk like you are.

 

[RobertWeathers]

I’m the type of fan who calls out bull when I see it, not a blind Belichick apologist deciple who thinks he’s infallible of criticism.

Of course BB is not perfect. It doesn't mean you are right.

Butler was active and dressed. Which means whatever he did, clearly wasn’t that serious. .

That is an assumption on your part.

He was in the gameplan an hour before kickoff. He sat there, ready to go for the full game and was never given an opportunity to play, even though Bill saw his D getting historically shredded.

BB felt Malcolm was still in a place mentally in which he would not have helped the tea

He made a horrible decision.

Malcolm made multiple bad decisions. If he kept his goddamn head on right and acted like a friggan professional like the rest of the team and coaches none of this would have happened

It’s okay to criticize him and you’re not going to change my mind or the mind of a majority of fans.

I really don't care what the majority of fans think. Are far as I'm concerned they don't believe in what BB has built here and they think "Do Your Job" is only some pom-pom waving slogan people shout at rallies.

 

[XLIX]

Thanks for the pointless lesson

I am just stating fact and correcting an error. If you don’t like it, tough sh*t.

 

[primetime]

It's strange that everyone is insisting that Butler must have been in the wrong when Belichick himself said it was not discipline related. By his own words, he preferred Jordan Richards and Johnson Bademosi over Butler, who played more snaps than any other Patriots defensive player this season, even when they were getting torched and missing tackles left and right.

 

[mosslost]

Without knowing what went down why does everyone immediately blame Belichick. Butler knows BB is no nonsense and how is BB supposed to let someone who is about to leave run wild on his rules?

It would be easier to feel as I do if we knew what Butler did. But I think that is Bill trying to be the bigger man and not scapegoat someone.

I mean it would be easy for Bill to put this all at the feet of Butler if he just threw him under the bus. But Bill is a better man than us and we roast him for it because of some media driven agenda about ego. This shouldn't be about his ego it should be about accountability.

Bill didn't do this to us, Butler did.

His reason is probably embarrassingly petty and if it came out now it could destroy Belichick

 

[sambam94]

My father was a psychiatrist and I and other members of my family have spent years working in mental health fields, none of us have ever seen what you are claiming. The idea that marijuana is a gateway drug has been thoroughly debunked for a long long time, and that’s why it’s now being legalized across the country. What really destroys minds and bodies are pharmaceuticals, that’s why America has an opioid crisis and not a pot crisis.

it does effect lives though...I've seen many stoners who never did anything with their lives because smoking pot was all that mattered to them...Yes, some smokers can succeed, but don't try to say that smoking weed can't effect someone's life negatively.

 

[patsfan13]

You guys are claiming the defense would have improved enough to get the win, when in fact Butler was on the field for their biggest games in points allowed this season.

So instead of Gilmore on Jeffries, Rowe on Smith and Butler on Nelson A, Chung on Eartz. We had Rowe on Jeffries/Smith, Gilmore on Jeffries/Smith, Chung on Nelson A and McCourty on Eartz. IOW 3 guys playing OUT OF POSITION in BAD MATCHUPS.

Butler’s absence was huge. Not only was Chung, a safety, now essentially the No. 3 corner caught in a tough slot matchup against the shiftier Nelson Agholor, but the usual slot corner, Eric Rowe, was isolated on the outside. Downgrades resonated at two positions.

The plan was “to go after 25 [Rowe],” said the assistant. “We could get Alshon [Jeffery] out there against him. We had Rowe on our team here in Philly, we knew that was a mismatch.”

But did it have to be?

“It was interesting—we thought 24 [Stephon Gilmore] would shadow Jeffery, which he did in the second half, but not in the first half. We liked our matchups across the board regardless.”

Many of Philadelphia’s wideouts said they didn’t even notice Butler’s absence. (“I ain’t really thought about,” said Jeffery. “Doesn’t matter—they’re a faceless opponent.”) Torrey Smith noticed, though. “I’m not going to lie, I probably studied [Butler] . . . ” Smith trailed off. “Well, put it like this: I definitely did not study No. 25 [Rowe]. I watched him a little bit, but I didn’t study him.”

Aside from Butler, Eagles players and coaches, to a man, said that New England did nothing they didn’t expect. Jeffery did not catch a pass in the second half after Gilmore switched over to him, but by then Nick Foles had found his rhythm. Tight end Zach Ertz was a major factor, often benefitting from Philly’s stack and bunch release designs, both as part of those groupings and as the man on the backside of them. His game-winning, 11-yard touchdown on a slant against safety Devin McCourty was the culmination of the offense dictating the terms of engagement. After seeing New England’s coverage tendencies all game, the Eagles knew they’d get a one-on-one scenario with their Pro Bowl tight end in space against McCourty. And if Ertz wasn’t open, they believe Jeffery, the primary read on the other side, would have converted.

Why Eagles were thrilled to not see Malcolm Butler



BB made it EASY for the Eagles.

 

[Ring 6]

I mean those are Belichick's own words (essentially: game plan) so yes. It's better than spreading unverified rumors of weed and showing up to the game drunk like you are.

When did belichick ever say he benched him for no reason? When did belichick ever say game plan? Belichick said what is best for the team and later said something like it was many different reasons.

What do you want belichick to do, publicly release the real reasons and trash the player? He isn’t going to do that. He never has. He never will.

 

[Todd Bradley]

I called Belichick out for being outcoached and their performance in the game, those are facts imo, and the score reflects those facts. You, on the other hand, are trying to judge things you have zero information about, and you are trying to substitute your judgement for that if the coach watching and reviewing every aspect of Butler’s performance leading up to the game. You never saw him in a meeting, you never saw him on the practice field, and you have absolutely no knowledge at all of how Butler was performing leading up to the game. In other words you are purely talking out of your ass. You have absolutely no idea at all how Butler would have performed.

You’re right I don’t know how he would’ve performed and that’s EXACTLY the issue. We never saw what he could or couldn’t do. And that’s totally on Bill.

But we did see scrubs like Rowe, Bademosi and Richards crapping their pants all game long. If you seriously think you’re convincing anyone that Malcolm Butler, whether he looked good or bad in practice, doesn’t improve the team’s chance of winning you’re full of ****.

 

[SHOWTIME15]

Could have been one quarter like Walker. Belichick behavior basically had similar effect on the D side as Thomase Rams article SB 42 has on whole team. Amazing Brady almost overcame his coach anyway.

Bill plays favorites. At some point, Butler fell out of favor with Bill. He liked Welker enough not to bench him.

 

[mosslost]

BB made the decision Malcolm's preparation would not put him a position to be successful in the game and thus hurt the team.

You can dislike that all you want.

What is clear is how BB runs the organization is suddenly inconvenient for you

Nah.. it was a vindictive act. In “Bill we Trust” is on life support. Brady has bailing him out for several years now.