Yeah, the first and last year were the best finishes. It's really just how you're playing at the time and against whom, it's easy to read a lot more into it than you should.
The best year we had, 2010, in December we had the disaster at New England, then a bad loss six days later to Miami, then had to go on the road to face Pittsburgh and Chicago who hosted the two championship games a month later. By contrast the worst year we had, 2012, we got Arizona at home and at Jacksonville, both times we were 2-3 to end the year, vastly different teams.