We may see some defensive weaknesses addressed, although not the kind of big, exciting moves that people want to see. With the return of some key injured players, there’s at least a core base that seems to be worth building around. Although there are weaknesses, we should still keep in mind that they led the league in points allowed from October through the end of the season (sans SB, of course).
Guy, Valentine, Wise, A.Butler, Brown, Flowers, Rivers
Hightower, Roberts, Lee, M.Flowers, Harrison (?)
McCourty, Chung, Harmon, Gilmore, J. Jones, Rowe, C.Jones
Add in one or two of the developing PS players who have been learning the system and things don’t appear to be quite as dismal as some are making it out to be.
I think we need an improvement on a couple of front seven players and a CB. It will be interesting to see if Belichick drafts another SS to replace a role player like Richards, if he brings in a FA, or promotes someone from the PS. I’m guessing a combo.