Reflecting for perspective...

[OnTheWarpath15]

Originally Posted by HolyHandgernade

We all understand you have to take advantage of what the opportunity brings to you...

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.

[Mile High Mania]

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.

See Marino.

[DaFace]

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.

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.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by DaFace

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.

[OnTheWarpath15]

Originally Posted by DaFace

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.

Good post, and I agree for the most part. Regarding the bold, however - I think the frustration will come from the fact that if the Chiefs had even a below average defense instead of a historically bad one, we'd all be pretty happy win or lose in the AFCCG or SB because we got over the hump of that 1st round loss and lost to a good team who just had a better day.

Losing because your defense can't stop anyone is a movie we've all seen before, and it sucks more than ****ing Gigli.