Here’s how the rest of the N.F.L. playoff picture shapes up after Week 14:

■ Earl Thomas is very important. The All-Pro safety for the Seattle Seahawks is out for the rest of the season with a broken leg and the team’s vaunted secondary seemed lost without him in a blowout loss to the Green Bay Packers. Seattle still has a commanding lead in the N.F.C. West but will have to learn how to play without Thomas quickly if the team has any hope of competing in the playoffs.

■ A game can happen without Jameis Winston accounting for a touchdown. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback had either a passing or rushing touchdown in all 27 of his college games and his first 28 games in the N.F.L., but he was shut out in his team’s 16-11 win over New Orleans. Considering he went from winning 96.3 percent of his games in college to losing 13 of his first 24 games in the N.F.L., he was probably just happy with the win, which kept the Buccaneers in line for one of the N.F.C.’s two wild card spots.