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Bean: For now, the Malcolm Butler saga is worse than losing Jimmy G

Patriots fans lament two things these days: the team giving up their quarterback of the future and Bill Belichick refusing to play Malcolm Butler on defense in the Super Bowl.

Both are bitter pills and both are back in the news given the recent Bleacher Report and SI features on Garoppolo and Belichick's training camp-opening silence on Butler. For now, one is way worse. It's the Butler thing.

Perspective on championships has understandably been lost around these parts over the last two decades, so here's a silly reminder that there's nothing bigger in professional sports than winning a title.