Ok, so I am going to go against my own best judgement here and just outright state that you are wrong! The issue is not that I disagree with you, which I do, the issue here is that you are simply wrong! Fair warning, I am a lifelong, spoiled, homer fan who loves Ray Bourque, Mo Vaughn, the Chief, Tedy Bruschi, Julian Edelman and hates f@***** nonsense!!!
The stories were there before AB ever became a Patriot, they were there during his Steeler AND Raider days, and they continued after he was released by the Patriots. As Patriots fans we may have simply stopped paying attention to the stories, but they were there all along and that hardly validates the fact that the stories "disappeared"! AB was a disaster!! A terrible, desperate, pointless, undeserving signing and it bit us in the @** for one whole year and lead to what we all knew was going to happen anyways!!! GET OVER IT
For every AB there is a Stephone Gilmore, for every A Haynesworth there is a T Washington, for every Chad Ochocinco there is a David Patten, for every N'Keal Harry there is a Deion Branch, for every Sony Michel there is a James White, for every ______ there is a Malcolm Butler, for every R Mallett there is a T "bleeping" Br@dy !!!! WE ARE THAT LUCKY
There is no reason to rationalize every BB's mistake to prove he is the GOAT Coach/GM/Dog daddy any more then there is to question every TB interception in hopes of proving he is only an afterthought QB when compared to Manning (either one), Rodgers, Mahomes, whomever!!! WE ALL KNOW WHO THE GOAT IS
Any argument that involves dissing of the press for doing there job is beyond @ssine! We don't win headlines, we win championships!! We don't win off-season's, we win Super Bowls!!! And we do it better than any city/state/team!!!! GO PATS