My baseline has nothing to do with it, particularly since I didn't have one, but thanks for jumping in anyway.
OK, let's take a different tack. You're mighty smug with what you think people are arguing here, especially when you say,
Maybe when people start actually thinking about what they respond to rather than waiting to attack every media person who isn't blowing 100% sunshine up the Patriots' skirts we can have a more rational discussion.
Nobody on here is saying this. This isn't about criticizing King for not praising the Pats. It's simply about King praising the Eagles for doing the same thing for which he criticized the Pats. Everybody keeps telling you this, but you seem more caught up on the fact they didn't draft Oher.
When somebody suggests maybe the Pats didn't like Oher, and maybe liked Vollmer better, you're back with "Oher was rated one of the top four tackles in the draft." That plus this part:
The reality is that the Patriots could probably have gotten all 3 defensive players they picked in round 2 AND Michael Oher if they'd made trades differently, and still pushed a pick or two into next season.
You don't know how the Patriots rated Oher. If they liked Vollmer as much as Oher, isn't it better that they traded back, got the guy they wanted (for much less money than the Ravens will pay Oher), and extra picks as well?