The team hasn't been very good so it makes sense that recent analysis of a team has been negative. But the same way a coach has to handle a bad team differently than a great team, I think the media coverage should be different as well. This team sucks. We get it. When the team was a perennial contender, fine, spend time dissecting and complaining about every chink in the armor and assign blame for it. A team like that, sure, measure them against perfection. But doing that with a terrible team like this is just unlistenable for me. It's too depressing.
I'm not saying the media should pretend the team doesn't suck. But shift the coverage to more forward looking. Discuss actually constructive ideas for improvement. What do you think the draft needs are? Talk about potential targets. Just shift the discussion to something that's actually interesting and stimulating. Just rehashing how bad they are and going over personnel moves from the last decade, while all valid criticisms, just makes me disinterested in following any of the coverage.
Others have said that he's grading Maye negatively because he's evaluating as an NFL starter in general rather than on the scale of a rookie making his first start on a bad team. That's fine, but a rookie making his first start on a bad team is what he is. That's the situation him and the team are in. If you're part of the local coverage, why WOULDN'T you be discussing the team from that perspective? I don't get that. Again, not saying pretend like it's all the same scale, but tailor your coverage of the Pats for where the Pats are.
