Post Game Thread- Super Bowl Edition

[PatsGirl2011]

Apparently Brandon Browner wrote a post on Instagram basically calling out Belichick regarding Butler and a couple of Patriots players liked it.

 

[PATRIOTSFANINPA]

I'm still trying to wrap my head around what I just saw.

A Pats team put up the most points in regulation of their 10 Super Bowls and lost?

The 40yr old GOAT threw for over 500yds?

A Nick Foles offense scored on 8 of 10 possessions?

Malcolm Butler gets reps all week with the starters, warms up with the starters and then is told he's not starting, sees zero defensive snaps and BB says this is not disciplinary? WTF happened between Friday practice and the end of warmups today?

On the balance, 2017 was an impressive title defense attempt. Just a really strange ending.

Regards,
Chris

The way Belichick rules this team with an iron fist makes me think the unthinkable....BUT could Bill have been secretly holding back a grudge all season long and using his starting corner in Butler to help get to the big game with the idea of if they got there he was going to make him pay for all the offseason negativity that Butler had provided about not wanting to play here and wanted to be a N.O. Saint in the summer and possibly having to sacrifice a championship game to get his point across to not mess with the F.O by benching him and not letting the rest of the league possibly see him play well in his final game as a Patriot and earning big bucks elsewhere? - this could have been his master plan all along - crazy but possible IMO

 

[PATRIOTSFANINPA]

Apparently Brandon Browner wrote a post on Instagram basically calling out Belichick regarding Butler and a couple of Patriots players liked it.

Hightower was one of them ....uh,oh - see ya Donte....(prays that wont happen)

 

[Pessimistic Pete]

Apparently Brandon Browner wrote a post on Instagram basically calling out Belichick regarding Butler and a couple of Patriots players liked it.

 

[scott99]

Apparently Brandon Browner wrote a post on Instagram basically calling out Belichick regarding Butler and a couple of Patriots players liked it.

I don’t think Browner is saying anything we aren’t all thinking.

 

[PATRIOTSFANINPA]

Belichick was the GOAT in this game - and I don't mean the Greatest Of All Time in this reference - he was the 'other' GOAT

 

[SHOWTIME15]

i think Bill is going to lose a lot of the lockerroom because of the Butler benching. you can tell the team is pissed.

 

[PatsGirl2011]

i think Bill is going to lose a lot of the lockerroom because of the Butler benching. you can tell the team is pissed.

Yup. You can tell Matt was just repeating the company line during his press conference too, but the decision was all on Bill.

 

[Delicate Genius]

Browner has multiple Instagram posts calling out/blaming Belichick.

 

[BradyFTW!]

Apparently Brandon Browner wrote a post on Instagram basically calling out Belichick regarding Butler and a couple of Patriots players liked it.

Belichick deserved to take heat for that. I don't even like Butler, but not playing him cost us 14 points. If I was in the locker room that choice would lose me, so belichick had better have a good explanation if he doesn't want to lose them. That would bea career ending move for any other coach

 

[Ras-IR Dowling]

Yup. And he’s absolutely right.

 

[PatriotsNumero1Fan]

Belichick deserved to take heat for that. I don't even like Butler, but not playing him cost us 14 points. If I was in the locker room that choice would lose me, so belichick had better have a good explanation if he doesn't want to lose them. That would bea career ending move for any other coach

It's asinine. Something happened behind close doors.

 

[PATRIOTSFANINPA]

like I said earlier I truly think this was an F-You and a personal grudge from BB against Butler that was kept hidden inside the hoodie master until/if they got to the big game,then he would sacrifice the team's chances to win this game for the sake of not letting Butler show what he got to his next team - when you are under contract and you say you want to go to the Saints or any team under this regime you get in Belichick's doghouse and at a time when you really need to show the world how good you could be to another team you can't because he benches you and your next payday to the next team goes to crap.

The Master gets even one way or another,in NE you shut up or pay the price - thats the only thing I can envision as we saw he was clearly capable of playing against a good receiver in Alshon - crazy as it sounds.

You can disagree with my assessment all you want,bottom line is we might never know until Butler is on his next team - its just my opinion

Guys that don't follow protocol on this team find themselves either benched or gone - thats just the way it is - thankfully most players do what they are expected to do and say what is expected to say

 

[Jlaff]

I have no idea what Butler's illness was 4-5 days ago, but an illness that gets you admitted for iv fluids, probably was serious especially if it was the flu. It is also entirely possible that BB did not allow Butler to interact with the rest of the team for fear of getting other players sick all week. Lack of practice, and being physically not 100% is an easy reason to not have him play. Just imagine the uproar if Butler got injured while playing with the flu.

I suspect that the main reason why Butler was dressed was because he would be the replacement for an injury. BB and MP probably felt that 100% Rowe was better than a less than 100% Butler. I guess we will never know.

That's an interesting thought on things.

 

[Pessimistic Pete]

Browner has multiple Instagram posts calling out/blaming Belichick.

Hightower has liked them as well

 

[PatriotsNumero1Fan]

Hightower has liked them as well

Any other players?

 

[festy1986]

That's an interesting thought on things.

Except the pats were playing at a historically bad pace last night.

At some ****ing point you throw butler in just to see if he can stop the leaks.

So I don' buy this theory.

Butler could not of possibly done as bad as everyone else out there was.

 

[Pessimistic Pete]

Any other players?

Former Pats Jamie Collins and Alfonzo Dennard

 

[TomPatriot]

Former Pats Jamie Collins and Alfonzo Dennard

Bail and jail.

 

[festy1986]

Former Pats Jamie Collins and Alfonzo Dennard

Just a bunch of guys burned by bill

Not that bill was in the right here. Butler deserved to see the field