Can schedules decide the playoffs

I have looked at this before. My take is those records are skewed a little bit. In the NFC thier are a bunch of damn good 4-4 teams. When looking at a statistical representation of all the teams, a solid 4-4 suddenly looks mediocre.

And most of these teams all play each too. Carolina is 4-4, Eagles are 4-4, St. Louis is 4-4, Dallas is 4-4, and the Vikings are 4-4.

If you had a 5 game stretch against all of these teams, you would be fortunuate to go 3-2 if you knew what these teams were about. But without knowing the teams and you see five 4-4 teams than you would think of an easy stretch.



But I get your overall point. Minnesota has it extremely easy I think. They only play 1 game left on thier schedule that has a winning record right now.