Again, you're making the huge assumption that they didn't do just that. Everyone said the same damn thing last year, that they should have just drafted their guy instead of playing cute, and it turns out McCourty WAS their guy, and was arguably the 2nd best player in the entire draft.Hopefully they have learned their lesson and draft their guy if he is there although it is too late this year.
BB had several chances to take an OLB. He clearly either
1) Didn't think it was a need
or
2) Didn't think any of them were that good. (for the patriots)