Originally Posted by
steelreserve
The issue is not that we had a bunch of near misses or just had some bad luck. It's that apart from the very start, we really weren't even that close. We were a tier 2 team all decade, not tier 1 or even 1A.
"But who other than the Patriots would you put in tier 1 or 1A for the whole decade, then? Checkmate, rocket scientist!"
No, not even that. It's that we were NEVER in the top tier, even for a couple years. No matter how much talent we had, we were still either a longshot, or an overhyped team that fell way short of expectations. You didn't ever have the feeling that this was it, this year we were the team to beat. Fuckin sucks. What a waste.
And no, I don't give a fuck what the Giants or the Chargers did. I'm talking about the Pittsburgh Steelers of the past decade, and what they did with their chance to win, not what some other team did with theirs. By that standard, there are other teams that started in worse position than us and had more playoff success, so I don't understand the point that guy was trying to make there.