I've never understood why so many Pats fans work so hard at being mad about dumb stuff like this.
I'm going to let everyone in on a secret: the Patriots have already won the verdict of history, and all the attention whores and haters and trolls are just fighting a rear-guard action that they know they've already lost.
Our quarterback and head coach have no peers, living or dead. Everything they do after LI is just making the rubble bounce. Nothing anybody says about it matters. They might as well try to argue with a volcano or something.