![]() ![]() “Welcome to Popeyes, can I take your order?” That was after he was kicked off the Hinds Community College football team after a campus altercation. That was after nobody much had recruited him out of Vicksburg High School. Malcolm Butler was that voice, the one who asks you if you want your chicken spicy or mild, your tea sweetened or unsweetened.īefore he became a Super Bowl hero, Malcolm Butler worked the to-go window at Popeyes. Finally, you roll down your window and the voice over the microphone says, “Welcome to Popeyes. I want to win it all.You wait in line, easing around one car-length at a time. “Get better as a player, do anything to help the team,” Butler said. Although Butler has grown, his goals remain the same. His development this season will be a big part of the defense’s success. Just doing all the right things I can.”īutler’s transformation has helped the Patriots move on from Revis. Just try to grow as a football player, a better person. “Learn from your mistakes and try not to repeat the same error and try to grow up as a man. Watch film,” Butler said when asked how he thinks he has improved. His attention to detail has also helped him transition from Division 2 West Alabama to the NFL. ![]() By keeping track of every detail, it allows Butler to notice little mistakes that he makes. He noticed the veteran would jot everything down in a notebook when the team watched film so Butler started to do the same. During his rookie year, Butler watched Darrelle Revis closely. Part of his evaluation as a cornerback also comes from the film room. I’m just growing as a football player, a person and just trying to do the best I can.” Everything that happened to me, made me grow up faster,” Butler said. ![]() Once you go from a quiet kid, who rarely gave interviews as a rookie, to someone who everyone wants to talk to, Butler had no choice after Super Bowl XLIX.Īdd in the birth of his son, Malcolm Terel Butler Jr., last offseason, and life has forced Butler to quickly grow into a man here in Foxboro. He couldn’t lose that dirt-dog work ethic that got him here in the first place, but he had to grow up. In order to evolve, Butler has had to keep some of his principals the same. He’s done a good job for us and continues to get better.” His roles have expanded in terms of playing on both sides, playing inside, and I’d say his overall coverage and understanding and technique and the variety of things he can do at a proficient level has continued to expand and grow. He’s a hard working kid that has shown steady improvement, he really competes well on the field, he wants to get better. “He’s certainly way ahead of where he was last year at this time, which was way ahead of where he was his rookie year at this time. He’s gotten better each year,” Belichick said. Prior to Tuesday’s practice, Bill Belichick said the young cornerback has constantly evolved. After tasting last season’s success, Butler needed to build off it. He entered this offseason feeling similar. 1 cornerback and earning his first Pro Bowl. He worked hard last season to show everyone he could actually contribute on a full-time basis and not just as a reserve.īutler responded by turning into the Patriots’ No. All he had to do next was prove that his goal-line interception of Russell Wilson in Super Bowl XLIX was no fluke.Ī play like the one he made likely will define his career, but the last thing Butler wanted to be known as was a flash-in-the-pan, feel-good story. He presented an award at the 57th annual Grammy Awards and was in a parade at Disney World in Orlando, Florida. After becoming everyone’s favorite underdog story a year ago, Butler entered the 2015 training camp with plenty of publicity. I’ve got more to prove just like everyone else.” Now in his third training camp, Butler is different in a sense, but he knows what got him here in the first place is one thing he can never lose. Two years later, he’s a Super Bowl hero, Pro Bowl cornerback and a father. This 26-year-old came to New England as an unknown Division 2 prospect, who wasn’t expected to stick around long. Of course, after everything he’s gone through in the past two years, it’d be hard not to grow up. FOXBORO - Life has changed for Malcolm Butler, but this humble kid from Vicksburg, Mississippi, has done everything in his power to stay the same. ![]()
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