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Who has stone hands? It's not Butler

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He has some issue with drops but that's for two reasons in my opinion. He was generally a deep target only so a lot of what he had to catch was over his shoulder or underthrown and body caught. When he was thrown shorter balls on slants etc where he had to extend his arms he had problems, but thats just an experience issue.

Which is the 2nd problem, experience. Butler didn't play a huge amount of HS ball he only had 21 receptions in high school and only played 2 years of college with 120 receptions.

Butler is in the NFL with 141 career receptions. He just needs more experience. While he hasn't been able to practice with the team this year it doesn't mean he hasn't been able to practice outside the team.

I wasn't being specific. People saying stone hands can be coached is...greatly exaggerating.
 
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