Show's over yet again for Brice Butler.

With the team having now made the trade for Amari Cooper official, they needed to free up a roster spot to make room for their new pro bowler. That move has now arrived, and it's Butler being shown the door. According to Jane Slater of NFL Network, Butler states head coach Jason Garrett notified him of his release once the team plane landed in Dallas from their fruitless trip to Landover, MD. It was in that game where Butler was seen not running through his routes, with new WR coach Sanjay Lal accosting him for it on the sideline. It's an unceremonious end to a reunion that was sold as a headline event, with the veteran registering only three snaps in his five games returned to the team.

Butler leaves the Cowboys with zero receptions this season.

It's all been a messy affair at WR for the team once they released Dez Bryant, believing their plan for a committee approach to be a sound one. It turns out it's anything but, and they found out quickly they had overplayed their hand -- via the 16-8 opening day loss to the Carolina Panthers seeing the offense stall repeatedly over four quarters, with only Cole Beasley making an imprint on the game. The team then called Butler, but it wasn't the weekend of their battle with the Giants, when the news originally broke of a potential reunion.

Instead, Butler says they rang his phone the Monday after the Panthers' loss, giving a very real indication of how they truly felt about what they'd witnessed at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, NC.

Even more interesting is who he revealed gave him the nudge to return to Dallas, because it was none other than Bryant himself. That makes for plot twist of sorts, considering it was Butler who went on a television tour to make it known -- if given the reps -- he could've outproduced Bryant. He'd go on to explain the comment wasn't a dig at Bryant himself, and the more obvious takeaway is Butler was heaving his condescension at the coaching staff. In the end, he'd leave in free agency and Bryant would be forcefully jettisoned, but it's the more vocal one who's returned to the scene of the crime.

"I'm here so there wasn't much love lost," Butler said, via Kate Hairopoulos of The Dallas Morning News.

He went on to note he'd received offers to work out for two other teams but at the advice of Bryant, he inked the deal with the Cowboys. He spent a small offseason stint with the Arizona Cardinals before being released and failing to impress in a workout with the Oakland Raiders, remaining a free agent until now.

Butler initially landed in Dallas via trade with the Raiders during the outset of the 2015 season after Bryant went down with injury. The hope was he'd immediately step in and provide a dynamic compliment to Williams and at times, he did just that. The issue has never been lack of ability for the five-year veteran, but rather injury issues and inconsistent production at times. When Butler is on it's lights out as he's a load to physically cover and a deep-threat matchup nightmare given his size and sizable catch radius.

When he's off, however, things take a precipitous turn for the worse by way of key drops in some of the biggest moments of games. It's that duplicity that makes him an enigma of a player and explains why he likely never ascended to become a major weapon in the Cowboys' offense.

He was sidelined by a hamstring injury in his first year with the club that saw him active for only seven games in which he'd only start two, which more or less defeated the purpose of making the trade to acquire him in the wake of a sidelined Bryant. Still, the team saw the potential and kept him onboard for 2016 -- no doubt hoping he'd remain healthy and provide a strong presence behind Bryant and Williams outside the hashes.

After delivering a valuable 219 yards receiving and three touchdowns as a complimentary piece in the 2016 regular season, he'd deliver zero yards on zero receptions including a key end zone drop against the Green Bay Packers -- helping to end the Cowboys' historic run. He believes things will be different, on his third contract, having no worries of re-learning the familiar playbook and all that comes with it.

“If you’ve got an old girlfriend,” he said, via Todd Archer of ESPN. “You know what she likes.”

Apparently, he doesn't.