The Bedard thing is just Lazy Media Pile-On Stuff. The clue is that he talks about how much film he's watched, giving himself a defense he wouldn't need if it weren't LMP-OS.
It goes like this:
The knock on AB is that he improvises his routes, or sometimes just goes where he wants to.
The Patriots rely on precision.
AB, as you may have read elsewhere, is in a whole heap of trouble off the field.
In his first game with less than a week's worth of practice, things weren't 100% perfect.
Thus, we can attribute it to the rep he earned in Pittsburgh, and it allows Bedard to knock him for something other than the off-field stuff
Therefore, when this becomes a huge issue for the Patriots, Bedard can point to this article and say "As I wrote about following his first game ..."
It's just lazy crap