00:00Yeah, so the last couple of days on our on our CEO Bears podcast, we we we spent one day
00:05looking at the NFC North remaining schedules for all the teams.
00:08And then we spent yesterday going through the NFC West because that's going to affect the wildcard.
00:13You have seven teams there between those two divisions and only five playoff spots.
00:19So two of those teams are going to be left out.
00:21And so the way we kind of attack this, Cody, was looking at like, all right, how many wins are
00:26you projecting for each of these teams?
00:28Who's got the easier schedules?
00:29Who's got the tougher schedules?
00:31Obviously, you know, you you don't know for sure who's going to win what, but you get a good idea.
00:37Like the Lions have a really easy schedule, the by far the easiest the rest of the way.
00:43And and so I would project them to at minimum get to 11 wins.
00:49But I think 12 is more likely when you start to go through some of the other teams like in
00:53the West, like Seattle's got a tough road.
00:55The Rams have a tough road.
00:56They've they've dug themselves a hole and they have some they have some tough teams left on their schedule.
01:01So all of that being said, without going through it again, the conclusion I made, guys, was the Bears target
01:08for wins here needs to be 12.
01:10They need to get to 12 wins.
01:12That'll get them in the playoffs.
01:13I think it is possible that we for the first time see an 11 win team not get in this
01:17year just based on this situation.
01:20I mean, seven good teams and only five spots for those seven teams.
01:23So you want to get to 12 to make sure you're in.
01:27Is that enough to win the North?
01:29Well, it might tie you with the Lions, but then you start talking tiebreakers.
01:32Right.
01:32So then those games against Detroit become so important.
01:35Thanksgiving becomes so important.
01:39I would say you want to get to 13 to guarantee yourselves to win the North if that's if that's
01:45what you're looking for.
01:46And then you want to start talking one seed.
01:48The 49ers already have seven wins.
01:50They have one fewer loss than you already.
01:53They might get to 13.
01:55I would project them to get to 13 or maybe even 14 wins.
01:58So the one seed then becomes an even tougher task when you look at what the Bears schedule is here.
02:03So if they go five and three the rest of the way, 12 wins, I think, gets them in.
02:07But their goal should, I would think, and Ben Johnson's really got to be looking at this,
02:10like can they go six and two or even seven and one, which seems lofty given what the schedule is.
02:16But I also think these guys are just good.
02:18Like, I think this is a really good football team.
02:20So I don't think you can rule that out.
