Ehhhhh,
1) The "rebuild" isn't over. This is gonna take at least another year. i expect next year to be about the same in wins as this year,. Iffy early, though, and better late, the reverse of this year. (There'll be a lot of new guys.)
2) Mac is, absolutely no doubt, good enough. but he's likely not more than that. Most pertinently, unlike Brady, Mac cannot compensate for the sort of incomplete roster Bardy has manged to win with, to a degree, in the past.
3) The Pats have GOT to change their drafting/trading/free agent philosophy to get more speed and more playmakers on the roster. Sorry. Bill, but the game really has changed.
4) Josh McDaniels is great at seeing the trees, a little hazy on seeing the forest. He needs to squint away his "intricate grasp of every last detail" at times and just allow the players, even the younger ones, to sometimes just get after it, to do the obvious simple right thing. I hope we can keep him, but I also hope he'll change his ways some.
5) I'm afraid, as the article said, that this year has to be devoted to the defense. The offense will just have to wait for its badly-needed playmakers.