During the Super Bowl LII between the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles, Patriots head coach Bill Belichick made quite a controversial decision to keep starting cornerback Malcolm Butler on the sideline for the entire game, despite the team’s struggles to stop Eagles quarterback Nick Foles. And even longtime players still don’t know why.
During an appearance on Chris Long’s Green Light this week, longtime New England Patriots’ defensive back Devin McCourty said that he and his teammates still don’t even know why Belichick made the decision and he revealed that he and former teammate Stephon Gilmore are both excited to read Butler’s upcoming book for that reason.
“To this day, I still don’t know the exact reason why he didn’t play,” McCourty told Long according to MassLive.com. “When I saw he was coming out with a book and a documentary, I was like, ‘I can’t wait to read that.’ Gilly actually texted me and was like, ‘I’m going to buy this book ASAP.’”
It was one of those moves that would have made Belichick look like a football genius had it worked out, but New England ultimately lost the game, so people will be questioning the decision forever.
