A soft schedule makes you soft.

Yeah, things look great.

Thanks to the luxury of playing Detroit every year, they get two relatively easy wins. Beat the Bears twice, and split with the Pack and they're 5-1.

They play all the teams from an AFC division.... meaning one or two bad teams, you are looking at splitting that at least, 7-3...

9 wins makes the playoffs practically every year in the NFC so all they really need to do is win 2 of the remaining 6 games against the other division winners to make it....

The relatively poor competition in their own division gives them at least 2 easy wins per year, year after year, and is just enough to push them into the playoffs with relatively weak teams, which is why this team has an all time playoff record of 19-26 including multiple early exits....