Beardown wrote:
Dignified Rube wrote:
Despite the Bears overall bad record, don't they still have a chance at making the playoffs if they win out their remaining divisional games?
I know this is a pie-in-the-sky prospect, but not impossible. If they end up splitting with GB, they would clinch the North, since GB will have lost to Detroit or the Vikings, both of which the Bears will have beaten.
It wouldn't be the first time a 7-9 team has gone to the playoffs, assuming the Bears win out.
Ummmm...Detroit has 8 wins right now. Bears going 7-9 means they lose the division. See how that works?
Dignified Rube: 
Some of your people can't read. The first line I wrote was a question.
"Despite the Bears overall bad record, don't they still have a chance at making the playoffs if they win out their remaining divisional games?"
W_Z's article on the Raiders is proof that the system for determining playoffs is inherently flawed and stupid, that divisional games count secondary compared to overall record when determining the divisional winner. It should be the other way around, first division wins and when a tie-break is necessary, looking at head-to-head record, and then overall record if still necessary. For the wildcards, it should be best overall record of the teams not chosen by the above method.
No wonder why people aren't watching anymore. The NFL can't even set up the playoffs properly.This playoff format isn't anything new.
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