This question Really depends on severity of offense.
1. Butler misses meeting and literally did stay out past curfew and was drunk and or stoned. No, I would neither play him and would probably just send him home.
2. If it’s just a bad practice and I’m upset about his play then I may sit him until I saw this nightmare going down then I’d try him just to see if he could pull off a stop
3. If it’s like one guy saying all it was is women and weed. It’s hard to say bro. I mean with the league and the utter crap storm that would happen if it was discovered. I don’t know what I would do.
That’s the thing though . B.B. has to of been faced with something dire to do this and refuse to adjust. Or, maybe I’m wrong and the guy just missed a meeting and B.B. said to hell with your bs Malcolm. I don’t see it this way though, I think it’s many things
I have a hunch that Butler was not going to take as many snaps in the first place, based on scheme, which made him check out even more the week prior.
This was all but confirmed by Rowe/MCCourty, if I am not mistaken.
Add in the additional antics by Butler and BB essentially demoted him, but dressed him in reserve.
Butler should not have cried over this. I find this troubling. There are guys every week who don't see as many snaps based on scheme.
I am sorry, but a 5'11 Butler on Jeffery would have been a disaster, so that's Gilmore in single man or Rowe with help. This is where I differ with BB.
Gilmore and his 14 mil needed to be on Agoholor, since e's by far their best all around WR. Jeffery is the school of Mike Wallace, but with more size and athleticism, but conceptually, it's a bracket job to dictate that Foles will not have that option, deep.
This is where BB/Patricia failed. If you know you Foles not even risking any balls to Jeffery based on the Harmon bracketing, it would have allowed Bademosi on Toerry Smith, which I believe would have worked fine, and McCourty down in the box in run support and maybe some blitzing when they needed it. One way to beat the RPO, is to blitz.
I am shocked at how they whiffed on this, because I don't think Butler over Bademosi changes that game. It's the concept and the scheme with personnel match ups in man that mattered. I have no idea how a HOF coach, the greatest ever, whiffed on this approach.
Chung on Ertz. Worked well pre-conussion.
Flowers on Clement. Was working. Nice coverage on the incomplete pass ruled a TD and nice plays around the line later in the game.
No idea what they ended up doing at halftime. The move for Gilmore on Jeffrey did work, but it didn't solve Agoholor or extra pressure on Foles.
