The bad news is. . .well, what we saw yesterday.
The good news, however, is that the Minnesota Vikings are still most definitively a part of the playoff picture in the NFC at this point.
With their loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday, the Vikings fell to 8-4 on the season and, once again, fell from the NFC's #3 seed to the top Wild Card spot, the #5 seed. If the playoffs were to start today, that would give the Vikings a trip to play the NFC East Champions. As it stands right now, that team would be the Washington Redskins at 5-6.