Three growing questions

Looking over Hoyer's lifetime stats I don't know that I'd call him "horrible". With exception of the 2015 regular season he's been no more than pedestrian and very average although in prior stops in AZ and Cleveland he played on some pretty horrible teams. Overall we should be no worse off than we were with McCown before he pulled off those miracle stats in 2013. Prior to that he was certainly no better than Hoyer as far as a prospect for a #2 QB spot.

I think Hoyer is capable of being more than Todd Collins v2.0 the only question is when is his vet experience is actually gonna show up because so far he's been looking like he hasn't a clue of what to do out there. I'd like to see him play the 2nd Q of this upcoming KC game with the #1 offense before I make any final judgement. For now all I can say it he needs to improve his QBR from "I suck" to "Moderately capable".

We have lots of spare CBs with little or no experience so one or two of them need to step up and prove they're ready to start. My guess is Fuller will be out longer than currently advertised. Cromartie is off the market now but Keenan Lewis is another injury prone vet recently cut by NOLA whose looking to a team to give him a shot. Pace may or may not kick his tires. Let's face it. Without a better pass rush it won't make any difference whose playing CB.

IMHO we have ample depth and talent at both WR and TE. The only real question now is whose gonna step up and own those backup spots and how many of each will we keep?

Soul, my thoughts exactly, I cant fight this feeling I have, although Ric warns me im wrong all the time, but Hoyer should be an ok backup. He is by no means the future or developing anything, but he should be ok for this season. He could be a starter for some of the teams out there (of course, needs to play much better than last week).

I like Cutler, I just hope he finally has that "great" season. Play Action is something that will help him. A good running game will help him. Hopefully Logains/Fox Keep it simple. Put him in a Position to succeed

That's what we heard from so many so often before last year when Gase finally did pretty much that.  I think he was much more restricted than usual because so many of his top receivers missed so much time but Gase and Loggains taught him to take what they give you and he did much better at that than ever before.

With AJ and White healthy and guys he also trusts in the slot and at TE I think we'll see Loggains open it up a bit more this year.  Cutler is quite efficient throwing downfield and somewhat less so on the shorter or intermediate routes Trestman had him restricted to year two.  I look for him to work downfield to AJ more and to White on some crossing stuff he can bust open with his speed and some long balls when he gets him singled up in coverage.

I think we'll begin to see more big plays this year than we have the past couple of years.