Malcolm Butler is just like nearly everyone else.
The former Patriots cornerback, who signed a five-year, $61 million contract yesterday with the Tennessee Titans, never got a definitive explanation for his highly controversial Super bowl benching. He still hasn’t spoken to Pats coach Bill Belichick since the team departed Minneapolis, but Butler did his best to surmise why he didn’t take a single defensive snap in the loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.
“I never got a reason,” Butler told the Herald last night in a wide-ranging interview. “I feel like this was the reason: I got kind of sick.