Why did Hoodie bench Butler??

[fishwater99]

he was a little bitter after the game and crying before kickoff.

 

[DAWG61]

Idk but Patriots fans are pissed off about it and should be. It's gonna be a long off-season for Belichick this year. Bad time to be on a power trip by benching your best CB.

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

I read he showed up a day late to Minneapolis because of being sick or something, dunno if that had anything to do with it.

His schtick is kinda getting old to me. Like Greg Pop in the NBA, it used to be kinda funny not giving reporters anything. Now it’s over the top and makes them look petty as hell.

Sometimes these people forget, it’s the fans that make them rich, nobody else.

 

[dogfan96]

Their pass defense was garbage with him or without him.. they were 30th out of 32 in passing yards allowed

 

[RocketDawg]

he was a little bitter after the game and crying before kickoff.

Sometime you'd think they were T-ballers instead of adults.

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

Moultree Knee...

 

[fishwater99]

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/report...practice-minor-rules-violation-004855035.html

"[FONT=&quot]Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy blasted Belichick on Monday for his lack of transparency over why Butler didn’t play in the most important game of the season.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]“The Patriots lost a very winnable Super Bowl Sunday night in some part because Bill benched cornerback Malcolm Butler for some undisclosed infraction or violation of the Patriot code,” Shaughnessy wrote.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]With no clear answer still available, Belichick’s decision to bench Butler is still one of the most baffling in the history of the Super Bowl and one that Patriots fans will have a hard time forgetting."[/FONT]

 

[aTotal360]

Rappoport says it was the sum of being sick, missing practice and missing curfew.

 

[patdog]

Ian Rappaport semi backs up the story I linked yesterday.

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My understanding is the benching of <s style="color: rgb(0, 132, 180); text-decoration: none;">#</s>Patriots CB Malcolm Butler happened because of a perfect storm of issues: Sickness, a rough week of practice, and a minor rule violation believed to be related to curfew. A complicated matter.
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[HumpDawgy]

If he doesn't understand by now that Belicheck is pretty strict on these kinda things, then he deserved to sit and should be glad he was allowed to dress out for the game. Belicheck is the original IB.

 

[Shmuley]

My man, Butler, needed some fat rabbit.

 

[ckDOG]

Patriots fans can STFU

Love him or hate him, Belichick has earned the right to be unquestioned for a while. A few years down the road of missing playoffs, fine. For now he should just be able to show a handful of super bowl rings and nobody should be able to say a damn thing.