That's the price of popularity. Writers are going to look for anything and everything either positive or negative to write about a successful team.
If you're not one of the "accepted" old school teams there are going to be a lot of upset people so a lot of negative articles.
The sad part about Florio is, he can't even write his own article or a timely one. He takes old news and regurgitates it. His show, ProFootball Talk is pretty mundane too. It's a "I'll set it up and you knock it out of the park" format. There are 2 guys, one setting up a tidbit of info and Florio responding as if he is some kind of expert but instead he's just repeating the same things that are already in print.
They make it look like 2 screens from different locations but I'll be they are in the the same room
As for Gilbride, he's old and decrepit and finally retired.
Fans LOVE badass Defensive Backs and always have ever since Lester Hayes and Michael Haynes. Look at the popularity of Darrelle Revis before he got hurt. DBs are the "Knights" that go up against the "Marauding" Wide Receivers who most of the glory. For every hero, there has to be an antitheses. Just look at Megamind and Metroman