Projecting the roster, rookies and more

I’ve noticed a change over the past year in posting of interview transcripts on Patriots.com. It seems that transcripts are now only being provided for the interviews with Coach Belichick. You used also to post full or partial transcripts of interviews with players and other coaching staff. I’m very disappointed in this change, for two reasons: firstly, I always like to know directly what people have actually said, before I read all the various media hot takes and spin-offs. It’s amazing what mountains can be made out of some out-of-context molehills. I know clips of these interviews are still posted. But I happen to live in a rural location with limited Internet bandwidth, and videos eat up bandwidth and often don’t load properly, whereas text transcripts are quick and easy to access. Is there any way this valuable service and form of coverage could be restored for us poor fans in rural or remote locations? I often feel like I spend half my life advocating for us folks on the wrong side of the digital divide. Thanks for the coverage and on-field reports, and I do appreciate that you post pics from practice and not just videos. It’s fun to start getting familiar with all the new faces and different bodies. – C.E Rigby

As a general rule only Bill Belichick’s and the starting quarterback’s interviews are recorded and posted on Patriots.com. Unless a player conducts his press availability in the media workroom at the podium, as is the case occasionally during the postseason leading up to a playoff game, those interviews aren’t always recorded. More often than not the player interviews are conducted on the field after practice or in the locker room (pre-pandemic). Sometimes those are one-on-one interviews and sometimes they’re part of a larger group setting. But those have never been posted with any regularity on the website for logistical reasons. The one exception to this has been over the course of the last two seasons during the pandemic when these interviews…