Post by dakotaskye on Feb 5, 2018 18:37:29 GMT -5
Reports before the game said he wasn't 100% and because he missed a day of practice. Then after the story blows up someone leaks those other reasons, yet Bill won't even talk about it. Come on that is fishy. If he broke team rules why not say that he broke team rules? He then says he played the players he thought would give us the best chance. Again making it sound like Butler was injured, yet he says he wasn't.
I'm sorry but smoking weed and missing curew isn't some serious thing, every year players do it. They are never benched for the whole game. Butler has always shown up to play on game day. I get making a point, but this was something more. This seemed personal, like Bill trying to show Butler wasn't that good and we didn't need him and it back fired. Otherwise, why not just say what happened ? They did the samething with Collins after he left, bunch of unnamed reports started coming out trashing him, hence why we traded him. I don't buy unnamed reports that come out after fans are upset and questioning our coaches moves.
Then you don't even tell the player what's going on? Come on, that makes no sense. Bill messed up and his comments after the game seem to show he knows he did.
True - we didn’t “know” - but the Pats didn’t play their #2 CB in a game where one 3rd down stand could’ve made the difference. As people have said, once Gilmore was put on Jeffrey, he was completely shut down. Putting Butler on Agholor wouldn’t have necessarily completely shut him down, but outside of one play, Rowe didn’t do anything yesterday - which I don’t necessarily think was his fault - he wasn’t planning on starting.
A little bit of pressure could’ve changed the game. A couple of calls going the Pats way could’ve changed the game. Brady checking down to a short receiver before being strip sacked could’ve changed the game. All a bunch of “coulds” - but I think the strongest “could” of them all is that if the Pats played their #2 CB (the guy who, prior to signing Gilmore, was their #1 CB, and who played a higher percentage of downs on D this year than anyone on the Pats), their defense could’ve performed better.