Patriots fans as a group are way too neurotic and thin skinned. Why care about every ding-dong thing anybody ever said about us?
We've already won all the arguments. Everybody who disagrees is just fighting a rearguard action against the weight of history itself, and those people always lose in the end.
It's like how anybody complaining about Jordan or the 1990s Bulls generally just gets laughed out of the room now as some kind of crank. He's transcended even the provably true tawdry elements of his career, because he won so much nobody can take any of that stuff seriously.
It's like we don't grasp sometimes how history is already burying all the critics of the dynasty. Brady and Belichick are in the NFL 100 All-Time Team, and 2000s and 2010s All-Decade Teams. All the crying about fake cheating scandals and all the rest never mattered, and will matter less than that with the passing of time. All the current dramas will fall away so hard it will be like they never happened.
Hell, you could even see it with Deflategate, where a bunch of the usual suspects weren't even able to keep hyping it and just gave up and admitted the whole thing was dumb.