Really? They have so many holes it's not funny? Do tell. Let's hear all these "HOLES" they have. Most people acknowledge they need help at S, CB, OLB, and DL Depth. But at each of those, people are talking about 1 player. The Pats need a center because Koppen and Connolly are UFA and Wendell is an RFA. The Pats need 2 WR, (one starter and one depth). That's not "a LOT" of holes. That's a few. Which is no different than every other team in the league.
The Pats have an amazingly solid O-line in Light, Mankins, Waters, and Vollmer with Solder, Cannon, McDonald as the back-ups.
The Pats have Woodhead, Ridley, Vareen and Polite under contract for next year. We can expect another RB to be added more than likely.
At WR, the Pats have only OchoCinco and Edelman and most people think that Ocho is gone. If that is the case, then the Pats will need to bring in 3 WR. Probably 2 via free agency and 1 in the draft. They'll probably also bring in several UDFA for TC.
Brace, Wilfork, Love, Deaderick. That is an extremely good group to build around. The Pats still need a RDE for the 3-4, unless they move Wilfork over there permanently. The only issue then is that Deaderick isn't nearly as good at LDE as Ty Warren was. So they would need a runstopping LDE.
ILB is set with Mayo, Spikes, Fletcher and Tarpinian. OLB has Ninkovich and Markell Carter, though Carter is a huge questionmark. And a lot depends on what they do with Andre Carter and Mark Anderson. Anderson actually stepped up and held up well at the end of the season while playing more. He isn't ELITE against the run, but he played a lot better than a lot of people gave him credit for.