PFK the answer is simple avoid Sportstalk Radio... it has descended into a cesspool of conspiracy driven BS designed to attract viewers, create conspiracy theories rather than to inform the listener...
In 2001 lived in Northern Maine for a couple of years, when I came back to this area for family stuff... could not wait to get in range of WEEI so I could be informed of the what was going on with the Pats.. Ordway, DeOssie and Smerlas sounded smart and informed.
Now my attitude towards sportstalk has turned into a very negative "MEH", find most of the Pats stuff they talk about is just plain old BS.. couple of weeks ago think it was Bertram who was ranting and raving about the LT sitz. He was asking the viewers if they had confidence in a LT who never played a down in the NFL.. he was trying to gin up some controversy, not sure it worked. What really irked me was the silence of Zolak, who knows more about the Pats than any other current sportstalker.. Zolak's silence only confirms that what they are trying to do is create controversy.
Rely less and less on sportstalk radio than I ever have..