The only way the Vikes and Bears can be rated less difficult is how they figure it when we play each other.
For us, with the Vikes, we are playing the Division Champs twice. For the Vikes, they are playing us, who finished 3rd.
I believe in two other cases the Bears and Vikes would have to end up playing teams as the matched up in their respective divisions last year. The Vikes would play the top team while we play the team that finished 3rd like we did. That only is the case a couple of times but would have to make their schedule slightly more difficult than ours.
So if you were to look at the Pack, Vikes, and Bears as dead even and that represents four games each, the remaining twelve games would be easier for us than either of them.
"The train is leaving the station."