Making the playoffs (winning your division) is every team's goal to start with... anything can happen from there.
2011 Giants won the SB after going 9-7 in the regular season.
All 12 years of Carr's career his apologists have been saying that. If we continue to kick the can down the road with Carr then it will always be "next year we are going to be the 9-7 giants from 13 years ago.
Carr is the goat that wasn't according to his lovers because everyone around him is terrible besides him.