Pats won 6 SB without top WRs.
You keep mentioning guys like Wheaton, Bryant, Coates and washington. They were jags--anyone can draft guys who are low output and fall out of the league in a handful of years.
But, yes...the Bill shave certainly neglected the WR position since McBeane arrived. I have made that point many times before. It has been an obvious position of need perennially and they have gone out of their way to pass on guys like AJ BRown, Metcalf (Cody Ford).