The trick is, you've just picked out probably the single best football beat writer in the country. I'm not sure there are other "guys like that"! What's more, Gosselin's employer just scoured the country for a guy worthy to ride shotgun with him, and found him in this market. And if you read comments on Breer's blogs in Dallas, the fans there seem stunned by how informative his stuff is. Really good beat writers are exceedingly rare everywhere.
FWIW, I'm going to repost something I wrote earlier in the week...
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It strikes me that this hardcore patsfans board has very good taste -- and very high standards! We spend a lot of time bashing the local beat reporters, then every single time we consider somebody "acceptable" he's scooped up for bigger and better things.
Mike Reiss: MetroWest Daily News-->Boston Globe (worth remembering this as we dis the Globe, they saw talent and leapt on it)
Tom Curran: ProJo-->NBC Sports (who's going to turn down that career jump?)
Albert Breer: MetroWest Daily News-->Dallas Morning News (arguably the single best local beat gig in the NFL and a HUGE move up from the likes of the MetroWest)
In retrospect, guys like Curran and Greer set an incredibly high bar for local football reporting and are very hard to find.