I was hoping that someone would shine some light on why Bill and the pats are so much against bringing in some much needed help in the pass rush!! I mean this is something we’ve needed for some time,and it seems they avoid it at all cost. Do u think they might use Mallet to move up and grab a pass rusher?

I hear you and it’s definitely the biggest head scratcher of the offseason as I see it, unless you count getting Revis (and that one was in a positive way). My prediction heading into the offseason was that they’d make a splash for a third defensive end to shore up the rotation.

There’s no other way to look at it, they played Chandler and Ninkovich more than any other two defensive ends in the NFL last year and unless they’re counting on Michael Buchanan taking a huge year two leap, or Jake Bequette suddenly doing something, the depth is scary right now.

They had in Will Smith last week. He’s coming off an ACL tear in 2013 after a pretty rough 2012. I guess they could bring back Andre Carter too, but are either of those guys going to take a significant load off of Ninkovich and Chandler?

I don’t care who your secondary is, no one can cover forever if the pass rush doesn’t get there. I don’t think Mallett is really enough to get them to a place in the draft where they could get an immediate pass rush force. Those guys are rare and usually top-10 picks.

So I don’t know what the answer is. They’ll surely pick up somebody here in the dying days of free agency whether it’s Will Smith or someone else that doesn’t get me excited. Hopefully they have a plan because right now, as I see it, the edges of this defense could be their Achilles heel.