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Yeah, I think you are right. Here is another possible scenario. Butler missed the trip out not because of an illness but because of something else. He did miss curfew and he did get caught with weed. BB was going to bench him but did not want the Eagles to know. So, he used Butler as a way to gain a competitive advantage. If he made him inactive, the Eagles could have had 90 minutes to plan. Instead, he sprung it on them and on Butler. He did not even tell the rest of the team before hand, to make sure nothing leaked. I assume BB thought this would work out better and the change in defense would have caught the Eagles by surprise but instead, they relished the change.
It as good as any man. I'll subscribe to any theory that makes sense.
I was saying all day yesterday that BB WOULD have played Malcolm if he missed the flight, smoked weed, had chicks in his room and missed curfew. He was not going to sit a player who played 98% of the snaps b/c he had a ****ty week of practice and didn't think he would be effective vs Philly. That would have been sheer stupidity on his part.
Thats why THE ONLY things that made sense on top of what I stated above was he copped a seriously awful attitude , didn't know the game plan, and got into a scuffle with BB's son.
In short those 232 things in addition to his "OK" play this year didn't buy him the "Chandler Jones/LT special treatment:" and forced BB to say enough is enough and put him on ice. There were rumors he was freelancing every now and then and maybe other off the field issues that just created a perfect storm.
All of Malcolm's alleged indiscretions were direct assaults on BBs core organization tenants and his performance/lack of trust in him could not justify making an exception.
Either way, what I've typed is total bull ****. I don't want to believe any of it but its the only thing that makes sense to me that justifies ZERO snaps.
BB took a gamble and he lost. No harm in that. BB is always trying to gain even that little inch and that is why it was handled the way it was.
Yep. He lost. We all did.
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