Hoyer had been upgraded to "probable", fwiw.
If we wind up with a 9-7 season despite little contribution from our top five draft choices, I'm satisfied - playoffs or no playoffs. Hopefully, those draft choices become starters and fixtures next season on top of the ones we will add this spring.
Before puffing our chests too much, we beat pretty much the teams we could expect to beat, other than Baltimore. 3-0 (hopefully 4-0) against Tennessee and Jacksonville, victories over Washington, Oakland, Buffalo and Cleveland - not exactly a murderer's row. Still, we bounced back from 4-5. Hats off to O'Brien and Crennel for a solid 2014 season. The irony is that, next year, we get the NFC South and AFC East, so we could have an even cushier schedule next season and post a winning record and still not be all that good.
We should get:
Indy (2X), Tennessee (2X), Jacksonville (2X), Tampa Bay, Atlanta, New Orleans, Carolina, New England, Buffalo, Miami, NY Jets, SD or KC plus the runner-up in the AFC North. That *could* add up to a 13-3 season if our talent grows and our mistakes drop, 11-5 if we're a little worse than that.
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