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Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath15
No reason to read past here.
When you have a 2nd year QB throw for 5,000 yards and 50+ TD's, you have to take advantage of it. We'd all like to think he's only going to get better, but it's no guarantee he'll ever have a season like this again either.
Anything less than a SB appearance will be disappointing, anything less than an AFCCG appearance is a ****ing travesty.
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On the surface I agree with you. But the reality is that the only thing people won't bitch about would be winning the Super Bowl.
- Before the season? "If we see growth out of Mahomes and get to maybe 9-7, it'll be a successful season."
- After the first few games? "Mahomes looks great. We might be able to win a playoff game with him, but we'll have to see what happens when teams adjust to him.
- A couple weeks ago? "Anything less than a first-round bye would be a huge letdown."
- Now? "Anything less than an AFCCG appearance is a ****ing travesty."
- If we made it to the AFCCG? "We may never have this good of a chance to make a Super Bowl in our lifetimes."
- If we made it to the Super Bowl? "If we lose this, we'll probably never get here again."
So yes, I will be as disappointed as you suggest if we lose our first playoff game - no doubt. But the reality is that it's largely driven by our lizard brains' inability to keep from raising our expectations every step of the way. As I say often, 31 of 32 teams end the season in disappointment. The distance between how fans feel at the end of the season between #2 and #32 is far smaller than anyone wants to admit.