Volin main job these days is to report press releases as if it is news.
One sad thing that the Internet has taught me is that in the good old days, 50% of sports journalism was repackaging press releases, and the other 50% was reporting the answers to someone else's questions in a private press conference. Almost everything I eagerly waited for in the morning sports page turned out to have been mindless and feeble regurgitation.
Even these days, most reporters' only value add is a press pass. This board is way ahead of the pay to lose media in timeliness of reporting Patriot's news, and is in a wholly superior league for interesting analysis.
I only wish the Patriots would field questions in press conferences from Patsfans chat instead of from the room, perhaps prioritized by post count or some other proxy for readership here.
Posters here like yourself are the modern pinnacle of Patriots news and analysis.
Keep doing what you're doing.
To paraphrase Matt Drudge: the New York Times may have had the pick of the litter of the best J-school graduates, and sports pages the worst of the runts, but there are a billion better writers out there on the internet.
Those folks most passionate about the Patriots make their way here, and many of you are now enormously practiced, are always highly entertaining and often informative.
Thank you all for making this the one place I got to to follow the only sports team I still care about.