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Palladino: Super Bowl Demotion Aside, Butler Should Be On Jets’ Radar

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For the moment, assume that Bill Belichick’s Super Bowl benching of Malcolm Butler was caused by nothing more nefarious than a few bad practices and some pig-headedness on the coach’s part.

That’s a stretch, of course. The gossip surrounding that move — limiting the Patriots’ best cornerback to special teams duty while the Eagles’ Nick Foles shredded the defense for 373 yards and three touchdowns — has ranged anywhere from busted curfews to weed usage, all of which Butler denies.