There are only three teams in the NFL that haven't played a game on Wild Card weekend since 2010: The Browns, the Bucs, and the Patriots.
Not that we can't still celebrate, but we got pretty fortunate to get a bye last year. In the 17 seasons since the 2002 realignment for 32 teams, here is the odds of playoffs and of getting a bye, by record:
14-2+: 11/11 (100%) making playoffs, 11/11 (100%) getting a bye*.
13-3: 28/28 (100%) making playoffs, 27/28 (96%) getting a bye**.
12-4: 39/39 (100%) making playoffs, 21/39 (54%) getting a bye; 8/39 (21%) were merely a wild card.
11-5: 42/43 (98%) making playoffs, 7/43 (
16%) getting a bye; 18/43 (42%) were merely a wild card.
10-6: 51/59 (86%) making playoffs, 1/59 (2%) getting a bye, 24/59 (41%) as a wild card.
9-7: 21/57 (37%) making playoffs, 0 byes; of those 21, 9 were 4-seeds and 12 were wildcards.
So we were among only a handful of 11-win teams to get a bye (and the 2002 Raiders even got the 1-seed with it). Even so, we were 8 times likelier to get a bye with 11 wins than the 2008 Pats were to miss the playoffs entirely.
Notes:
* Among those 11 teams, only the 2004 Patriots failed to also secure the #1 seed.
** 2011 Saints were #3 behind the 13-3 49ers, on Conf Win%.
- The 2012 Kaepernick 49ers got the 2-seed and the bye due to getting 1 tie (11-4-1), putting them ahead of the 11-5 Seahawks
- The 2014 AFC somehow kept FOUR 9-win teams out of the playoffs; it was a very flat year in terms of distribution of records.
- There have been 3 teams with 9-6-1 records; of those, the 2008 Eagles and 2002 Falcons made the playoffs as 6-seeds, while the 2018 Steelers juuuuust missed out.
- There have been six 8-8 teams, one 7-8-1 team and one 7-9 team to make the playoffs in this span too, but so many more with 7 or 8 wins to miss it that it's not even worth calculating the numbers.