I am too, for several reasons:Yeah, this has to be part of BB's calculus. Or that Butler shows up and plays hero ball. Maybe it would be counterproductive for Butler to do any of these things, but people don't always act rationally.
Im inclined to trust BB's judgment here.
(1) We really have NO idea what's going on.
(2) We really have NO idea what Belichick really thinks of Butler, as a person and as it relates to the monetary value he puts on him as a football player (What dollar amount does BB think he's really worth? It's not good enough to say that he values him at $3.9 million because that's what he offered Butler; after all, he apparently values him at more than that if the stories of a 4/28 extension are true. But how much does he value Butler? Who knows?)
(3) Belichick, while hardly foolproof, has a long track record now of being better at this than anyone else in the league (or at least...he's really, really good at it), and often times he's made decisions that leave fans scratching our heads, but which work out in the end.
So it's hard to not trust BB's judgment, even if he ends up making a deal that makes us as fans say, "WHAT!?!?"