go birds, but also this is unique in that one could argue that benching Butler probably cost the Pats the Super Bowl. i like to take the position that teams can do whatever they want and the market can decide, but I feel like belichick owes someone something (kraft?) and the situation just gets more bizarre the more I think about it.
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Do you mean he owes Kraft something like, you're saying benching Butler was the favor to Kraft? Because of the contract stuff, like to make a statement to other players?
The Jimmy G drama adds to the confusion imo. Like I feel like normally I'd assume Kraft is on board and in cahoots with whatever Bill was scheming. Because of all that drama, I tend to imagine it more like Bill is saying F it and going out on his own. Which maybe is what's happening, but maybe not at all and the Jimmy G drama just makes it easy to assume that.
Nah, I'm saying that Belichick made a decision that could very well have lost the Super Bowl for his team, and while he doesn't owe the public an explanation (maybe?), he probably owes Kraft one.
Ah, right! I agree. I imagine he's probably discussed it with Kraft behind closed doors, which would kind of eat up my claim that Kraft should fire him.
(It would just be based on what explanation Bill gave behind closed doors.)
If I could be a fly on the wall, maybe I'd still err towards saying the team is better off without Belichick at this point. But maybe there's some inside info sort of thing where it actually makes sense somehow.
Kraft is loyal so it would be hard for him to fire Bill over my theoretical argument about personal motivation at the high leverage moments lol.
i'm being passive here by saying "one could argue", but I'll be stronger and say "I do argue". Playing Butler probably would have been the difference
Way to embolden your statement. And ya, at least from a CHAOS THEORY type of lens, like if we assume Foles isn't usually quite that wonderful, change it up and chances are you get a better result. But even besides that, ya, adding Butler to the secondary seemed like it probably would have been the difference.