Week 18 Power Rankings, Bears Edition

Here are the week 18 Bears power rankings from various sites around the web:
ESPN.com: #6 (Last week: #6)
Analysis, “The Bears better hope “Bad Jay Cutler” doesn’t show up for the playoffs.”
SI.com: #7 (Last week: #6)
Analysis, “I’ll grant you that a No. 7 ranking is fairly low for a No. 2 seed, but the Bears aren’t a dominant team as much as they are an opportunistic one. Of the four teams with first-round byes, the Bears rank a distant fourth in terms of scoring differential, with a +48 margin spread out over their 11-5 record. Compare that to New England (+203), Pittsburgh (+143), and Atlanta (+126), and you get the idea. A lot has to go right for Chicago to wind up in Dallas, and its margin of error is fairly slight. Then again, a lot already has gone right for Lovie Smith’s team this season, and maybe that mojo will

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