Butler agrees to terms with Saints (merged) (2 Viewers)

3 Things:

1) This kid is like the Cowboy's Junior Galette. Super productive in limited minutes, grades out positively, but never got the snaps to show what he can do. I love his potential. Cheap contract too is a big plus.

2) This gives us serious flexibility going into the draft. I have a hunch that SP recognizes our problems drafting defense and our proficiency for offense, so I think he is taking the approach of signing defenders in FA and drafting offensive guys.

3) Butler allows to play Tez at his more natural ILB position, and I think we groom him under Vilma for a year. He is a great blitzer of the A gap, and Ryan loves to blitz his WILB (which I think is a great fit for TEZ). Really, though, I think Tez is going to play all 4 LB positions (along with Hawthorne as well). It gives us great flexibility going forward.
 
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this is all the film study I needed to see
 
3 Things:

1) This kid is like the Cowboy's Junior Galette. Super productive in limited minutes, grades out positively, but never got the snaps to show what he can do. I love his potential. Cheap contract too is a big plus.

2) This gives us serious flexibility going into the draft. I have a hunch that SP recognizes our problems drafting defense and our proficiency for offense, so I think he is taking the approach of signing defenders in FA and drafting offensive guys.

3) Butler allows to play Tez at his more natural ILB position, and I think we groom him under Vilma for a year. He is a great blitzer of the A gap, and Ryan loves to blitz his WILB (which I think is a great fit for TEZ). Really, though, I think Tez is going to play all 4 LB positions (along with Hawthorne as well). It gives us great flexibility going forward.
I really hope this is the case, the more RR is allowed to move his LBs around, the better he can disguise his blitzes.
 
3 Things:

1) This kid is like the Cowboy's Junior Galette. Super productive in limited minutes, grades out positively, but never got the snaps to show what he can do. I love his potential. Cheap contract too is a big plus.

2) This gives us serious flexibility going into the draft. I have a hunch that SP recognizes our problems drafting defense and our proficiency for offense, so I think he is taking the approach of signing defenders in FA and drafting offensive guys.

3) Butler allows to play Tez at his more natural ILB position, and I think we groom him under Vilma for a year. He is a great blitzer of the A gap, and Ryan loves to blitz his WILB (which I think is a great fit for TEZ). Really, though, I think Tez is going to play all 4 LB positions (along with Hawthorne as well). It gives us great flexibility going forward.

100 % agree with all of this.
 
Love the signing, but i hope the team still drafts a pass rusher. Butler, in my opinion, is depth. Though i see his potential, im not 100% sold on him being a starter. Hope we're not thinking he's the answer to our pass rush woes. Nice pick up though.
 
New Orleans Saints Agree To Terms With LB Victor Butler
By <CITE title="By NewOrleansSaints.com">NewOrleansSaints.com</CITE> - Posted 1 hour ago
 
Real world Saints offseason news. Wow. Are the 10x redundant speculation threads about Smith, Harper, Ivory, and PT not sufficient to keep us happy???
 
Wonder why we only gave him a 2-year deal instead of 4?
 

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