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The Bears want to play postseason games at home — here's how they can get there

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Ben Johnson preached for weeks that the Bears needed 11 wins to make the playoffs.

Saturday they got their 11th win. Sunday they got into the playoffs.

“That was Step 1,” Johnson said Monday, abut 18 hours after the Lions’ loss put the Bears into the postseason for the first time in five years. “Step 2 is we want to win this division — we want to have at least one home playoff game. And then Step 3 would be clinch a No. 1 seed.”

The Bears — who technically can finish as high as the top seed or as low as No.