Some Vernon Butler love..?

[SetfreexX]

Man and so many of ya'll wanted to write him off too 

Same with Shaq, hard to establish yourself BEHIND all pro caliber players at the same position....

[TN05]

3 sacks.

3 forced fumbles.

Can’t ask for much more than that.

[My Goodness My Guinness]

Good to see Butler have a good day. Seems like the 3-4 fits him better than 4-3 as he has had a few good games in a row.

@Toomers I remember you bashing the living daylights out of Vern in preseason

[Icege]

Me when I see the Huddle giving Big Vern props

[Wolfpack352]

Like with most players, I need to see more.......consistency.  When I start saying holy Bleep where this cat come from?  Then I'll get good feelz.

[Pantha-kun]

Bradberry could demand a poo ton of money this offseason. I could see him signing with the highest bidder and going elsewhere. 

[1of10Charnatives]

1 hour ago, SetfreexX said:

Man and so many of ya'll wanted to write him off too 

Same with Shaq, hard to establish yourself BEHIND all pro caliber players at the same position....

I think there's a measurable difference between the two. I thought Shaq played pretty good up til this season, he clearly just didn't get the chance to be on the field most of the time. Now that he is, he is balling out. Butler on the other hand, while also suffering from playing behind top caliber players, was different in this way: he never made plays before with the limited opportunities he did have.

Furthermore when you're a former first round draft pick and one of the starters leaves in FA, and your team's response is to go out and spend significant money signing a FA as a starter to replace them, not once, but twice (Poe and McCoy), what that says to me is the coaching staff isn't seeing anything in practice that leads them to believe you'd be capable of filling those shoes if given the chance.

When all is said and done I just think Short's injury possibly combined with the change to 3-4 and contract year have created an environment where the young man seems able and willing to produce. Good for him, and I'm thrilled to be reevaluating his value to the team. Rest assured my weekly report to Rivera and Hurney will say so. They hold my opinion in high regard.

[Toomers]

4 hours ago, My Goodness My Guinness said:

Good to see Butler have a good day. Seems like the 3-4 fits him better than 4-3 as he has had a few good games in a row.

@Toomers I remember you bashing the living daylights out of Vern in preseason

   And watch the CHI pre -season game and you will see why. There’s a reason he was inactive for the first couple weeks. It was all about his effort. Which seems to be much better when he realized he was going to spend his contract year on the inactive list. Every criticism I had was about effort. 
 

   Go watch that game and tell me your opinion of his play. Coupled with 3 years of suck and why would there not be criticisms? He wouldn’t have played a down if KK didn’t get hurt.