Van Everyman said:I get that these kind of context-less lines can be frustrating for readers and that this is an internet message board not the congressional record. And I probably should have led my post by saying "If true."
But stating that Volin just "made this up" is baseless and, frankly, lazier than if he actually did make it up.
Obviously Volin heard something -- no probably not in a press release from Patriots.com or from Brady directly (tho who knows). But he's a capable, if sometimes uninspiring, beat reporter for a well regarded sports desk with a major paper. Those kind of guys aren't above sensationalizing a story and creating mischief but they're highly unlikely to concoct stories out of thin air.
Maybe, yes, Brady has never really had chemistry and trust with DA. Or maybe DA backslid during the year in some ways. Most likely, he's drawing a conclusion based on a lot of different pieces of information he's assembled. But as the second two pages of their thread suggest, there's plenty of widely available evidence he's not just pulling shit out of his ass.
That's not obvious. That's why there is a problem. In fact if he did have something to report you'd expect him to make an actual story of it because it's a BFD ("sources inside the Pats organization say that Brady has lost faith in Amendola..." ) I suspect his evidence is the lack of targets in Denver, the quote Frisb used, the failure to look to Amendola on the Slater play and a few other plays where Slater was open. But as I said above it's so vague we don't know what he's basing his story on, and I'm not going to assume a young reporter at a Boston paper has awesome journalistic ethics.