Is The Grind is a self-fulfilling prophecy?
It's right up there with It's impossible for me to lose weight and I'm totally going to bomb the biology mid-term and George Lucas will find a way to ruin the new Star Wars movie with extremely punchable CGI characters specifically created to sell action figures to 6-year olds. Maybe it's a grind only because they said it would be.
The Chase begged for a sequel even though the original was without peer. The intact and completed 2014 season was perfect; arguably better than an imaginary undefeated version of it - so perhaps replacing that banner and battle cry with an entirely new one was unnecessary.