I agree that conclusions still can't be made, but it's now Wednesday and Bill still hasn't expanded on his characteristically tight lipped statement about the move and Butler is said all he's going to say. It was a HUGE decision that at the very least *might* have hindered the Patriots' chance to win the game, so "It was a football decision" doesn't really cut it.
Belichick certainly doesn't have any technical obligation to tell the truth or explain himself, but I think this is one of those times when his typical demeanor when answering that type of question needs to give way and he needs to explain himself a little better.
Perhaps we'll never know... I would be fine with that. I haven't turned on Bill and it would take more than a questionable personnel decision to change that, but he's treating this decision as if it was a choice to go for it on 4th down or something like that, where either side can be argued forever and we can throw out actual percentages and whatnot.
This is a decision that forced everyone else to speculate when he could have put Butler in to start the third quarter or really at any time in the game and he wouldn't have anything to answer for right now.
So, if Bill doesn't expand upon it, fine. But if that's his choice, speculation is all we have. It's not really the type of thing that we can just flat out move on from, though.
