Coming to grips with this after being bummed out a bit last night. Whatever....non-Bears fans will group this team historically with the other 24 teams that didn't make the playoffs, just like the other 10-6 (and 11-5) teams that failed to make it. Did the Bears deserve to make the playoffs? Yes I think they did. They were a deeply flawed team with elite talent holding things together but in an NFL where over a third of the teams make it, that should have been good enough. It's just hard to get too upset when the team was 7-1 and had a 97% chance to make the playoffs. If they had went 5-3 and 5-3, I might be a little more upset for some reason. Funny, when I was running through all the scenarios to get in the playoffs before the Arizona game, I kept purposely leaving out the Vikings, only saying 'if they can win in Houston and against GB to get in, then they just deserve to go over us', and that's exactly what happened.