You can draft well and still miss the point. The Patriots did plenty of tidy work and somehow never got around to interior defensive lineman, which was the need that mattered most. A dependable weekend that grades out a B-.

DeJean falling to them is the kind of break a good board is built to catch. They will need Ford to outplay his draft slot in a hurry to justify it.

They left with edge rusher solved and the rest of the wish list mostly ticked off.

In short, they left a little better than they arrived, which is the whole idea.