The tragedy of the 2010 season

Tragedy is relative, and always too strong a word for football regardless of what happens (short of a Dennis Byrd situation). So it is poorly worded and only relative to the product.

But this whole thing about "just be happy to outperform other past SB winners" is, again, to me quite ridiculous. Are we the 02 Bucs with Dilfer at the helm? The 05 Steelers who lost 20+ players to free agency and who were an average team that got hot? The 07 Giants?

We essentially returned our entire team intact, and had one of the weakest schedules in NFL history. We didn't lose our assistant coaches to HC jobs. We have one of, if not the, best QB's in the league.

I happen to think that our situation more closely resembles some of the other winners of the decade, with our stability and HofF QB. Wonder if Belicheck would have been happy with the 05 seed after the 04 season, or the Colts after the 07 season? Something tells me otherwise...