Brice Butler leaves practice after being injured in drill

aikemirv

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Agreed. I liked the pick of Brown. But the talk of him replacing Butler right after the draft was mostly wishful thinking IMO.

The hate Butler gets to be a 3rd or 4th WR is funny to me.

I don't see any hate for Butler - I definitely don't hate him, I like him more than Williams (not more valuable than Williams - Williams is just a dumb player) but when people make ridiculous statements - it blows up.....
 

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So is there any report on whats wrong with his foot?
Any word on what the injury is?

Yeah, that is the more important issue here other than if he is the 2nd or 6th best option as a receiver.

The last I seen he was able to walk off the field, and did not seem to be too serious.

And their does not seem to be much out there on it, so it must be ok. I hope he is anyway.
 

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I don't see any hate for Butler - I definitely don't hate him, I like him more than Williams (not more valuable than Williams - Williams is just a dumb player) but when people make ridiculous statements - it blows up.....

"Hate" in the sense he gets a bizarrely high amount of criticism for a guy who is supposed to be a 4th WR and that people are often quick to try to replace him with guys who aren't that much better, if better at all.
 

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Evidently it is "not serious" from reports. Supposed to take a few days off.
 
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Cole Beasley: 20.3% target share | 98 targets | 75 catches | 833 yards | 5 TDs
Dez Bryant: 19.9% target share | 96 targets | 50 catches | 796 yards | 8 TDs
Jason Witten: 19.7% target share | 95 targets | 69 catches | 673 yards | 3 TDs
Terrance Williams: 12.6% target share | 61 targets | 44 catches | 594 yards | 4 TDs - 4 rec over 30 yrds - Brice Butler 1 over 30 on 16 rec
Ezekiel Elliott: 8.3% target share | 40 targets | 32 catches | 363 yards | 1 TDs

Who?- 2nd biggest playmaker - funny! The only reason he has the numbers he has is because he is an afterthought to the defense as well!

He's a dangerous guy.
 

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I don't see any hate for Butler - I definitely don't hate him, I like him more than Williams (not more valuable than Williams - Williams is just a dumb player) but when people make ridiculous statements - it blows up.....

:lmao::lmao2:

So true
 

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He will be fine
WR is a position with decent depth so not a big issue if he was out a few weeks
 

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He had an almost 10 ypc average. I'm not sure you know what you're talking about there, 5 yards? Considering he never has been that guy to explode for 50 yards(he's not really done that much over his career) his longest last year was 35, so yeah he can get those 30 yard gains, and does. Here is his longest reception by year over the past four starting with last year:

35
35
34
34

He's pretty much the definition of consistent(year before that his longest was 36).

Williams does like to body catch, but he had more catches, more tds, more first downs and a longer yardage reception than Butler. He can extend. Look no further than his 3rd down catch in Seattle a couple years ago.

Beasley isn't explosive downfield as he's not as fast, and he's not used that way much, but within 10 yards of the line of scrimmage he's probably the most explosive receiver in the east in that regard. He just can't be covered because of his agility. He also had more catches, more yards, more touchdowns and a better average than Butler.

Butler said it himself, he's just a regular player. Not the worst and not the best. Just regular. By his own definition of himself, he is just a guy.
T Dub had a nice TD catch against the 'Skins on Turkey day. Dak was rolling out and TW moved with him and made that tiptoe TD catch while falling out.
 

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Butler is a good guy to have on this team because he is a nice matchup for the Cowboys. I expect us to go with more 10 personnel against the Giants. The G-Men primarily play Cover 5 against us and since they were the only team that really stopped this offense last year, I expect more teams will try some Cover 5 shells.


The Cover 5 takes away Dez. Janoris Jenkins gets a lot of credit last year, but in reality he was getting help on virtually every plan on Dez. It can also take away Williams. Last year we were left with Witten and Beasley but we could only get minimal yardage out of them. With Butler we can likely get him up against safeties or weak corners and he can exploit that with deep passes. The issue is that you need to give Butler time to get downfield. We have EE for that in terms of protection, but if the Giants send 6 then we need the quick routes which is where I can see us going 10 personnel with Switzer and Beasley in the slots.


It may not lead to a lot of production, but Butler’s presence could be very helpful in these situations.





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Glad it's not too serious, but it looks like the preseason might be over for Butler. Now we get to see if Noah Brown and Andy Jones can step it up with more reps.
 
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