before the season. And before the season, I'm not sure too many people thought 7-9 was unreasonable, given that the team was playing a 1st place schedule. And, yet, after all was said and done, this team was the most maddeningly inconsistent team in the league. They began the season as if they were prepared by Herm Edwards (i.e., spotting the rest of the league a 3-game lead), they were incompetent in at least 1 phase of the game during a large middle stretch of the season, and then at the end of the season when the defense played fabulously, the team was among the worst scoring offenses. That they finished 7-9 is rather amazing. If they can get healthy, get a few impact players in the draft and free agency, and get their offensive kinks worked out, I don't see any reason why they can't go deep in the playoffs.