Patriots coach Bill Belichick was once again asked about his controversial decision to bench cornerback Malcolm Butler in Super Bowl LII, and Belichick, once again, did not offer much of an explanation.
“I have already addressed that question,” Belichick said on WEEI’s “Ordway, Merloni & Fauria” Monday. “Really what I’m focused on this year is training camp, trying to get the 2018 team better — not some other year, some other game, something that happened last year, five years ago, 20 years ago. Like, we’re past all that.”
Immediately following New England’s Super Bowl loss to the Eagles, Belichick insisted the decision to bench Butler was “strictly football.