The thing is he is obviously kept in the dark and has no real source for info beyond what they give him. He is their PR person. He should be paid by the team. If it were otherwise, he wouldn't be consistently blindsided. I don't know how he gets more information by not toeing the line.
Hell, Gambo apparently has better actual access to information. Gambo at least hears whispers and looks into it. Craig Morgan studiously avoids whispers and ignores them. How long did rumours of a sale to majority Barroway linger before he addressed it? Weeks of rumours about Tipp being fired, but radio silence from the team "insider". When he finally comments, it's a few hours before he gets canned essentially saying, "Tippetts at the draft, soo... " He gets and prints exactly what the team tells him to. He has never printed something whispered to him. I doubt anyone whispers to him. He's never cultivated that sort of contact. He's so "inside" that he's actually part of the org.
Add to that (well, it parallels), the fact he went from the only person covering the team to ask the occasional critical question (long, long ago), to a petty cheerleader that aggressively defends the team from anybody asking legitimate questions that even look like they approach criticism.
I know what Craig is. He deliberately became that as a career move. He traded objectivity to be the team's mouthpiece because it gave him a degree of access noone else has/had. If the team wants a story out there, they drop it to Craig.
I don't see how that changes. He can't rely on independent sources he doesn't have. And he 's never cultivated them, so he needs the team access. He doesn't get the officials stories thrown his way by printing something that they don't greenlight.
