I do not think, I do not think. So what are you getting this guy, blah? Do you even listen to yourself when you talk? Hey, hey, we're live. Woo-hoo! Turn off your radio before it's too late. Hate it, hated, hated, hated, hated it. I told you this was a bad idea. Velgar and Mass, 985, the Sports Hub. You could see the hurt on his face as he delivered those words.

You look at the way the Patriots played this game.

They were a big nickel defense in this game.

So it was really a two-corner game for them.

Stefan Gilmore on one side, Eric Rowe on the other.

The question is why was it Rowe over Butler?

I asked Bill Belichick, you know, what went into that decision?

What did the Eagles do that led you to play row over Butler? And he said we put the players

and the game plan out there that we thought would be the best like we always do. But here's

why this is so unusual. Malcolm Butler played 97.8% of the defensive snaps in the regular

season. So no matter what planned, the Patriots had played over the course of the regular season and into the playoffs, Malcolm Butler was always a part of the plan. We asked Belichick, was it disciplinary? He said no. We asked Butler, you heard, if it was disciplinary, and he said he had no idea, so no one told him why he didn't play.

So we're all back talking about it here, a fully loaded program. We're on 98.5 on your FM dial in Boston. You can catch us on the simulcast across New England and the country on NBC Sports. Boston. The stream, the live stream, is on the 985 the Sports Hub app or 985 the Sports Hub.com, but the app you can just download on your phone and catch us live or if you miss a show, an hour, a segment, you can always get it back on the podcast that evening when we post everything. So that's how you get us. And we're picking through the refuse here of a Super Bowl loss for the Patriots. Rob and Bill Ricker. Go ahead, Rob. Hey, guys.

Sorry about you.

I actually wonder.

I'm very concerned about whether the crime will fit the punishment.

Because if it doesn't, then he's really exposing himself.

And by he, I mean, Bill.

My feeling is that there's been an undercurrent of turmoil at one Patriots place for at least the past month or two.

Like, if this turns out to be Bill's ego, this could play really poorly for him when he has this big meeting with the Crafts and Brady.

Well, so let me just say it's sort of a fitting cap or two, and I, Curran wrote this, you know, sort of an off year down there in terms of what the hell's going on behind the walls. Well, look, and we didn't even get to the gronk thing yet, the comment he made after the game last night. Like when you add up, Gronk's talking about retiring. You know, there was the Wickersham story between Brady, ownership, Belichichick Garoppolo, that whole thing.

This Butler thing flares up.

Like you add all this up and say, what the hell was going on down there in the last two months?

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