I’ve often heard the period between winter and spring break in school called “the Dark Ages.” The weather is bad, there’s nothing fun going on, and everything just feels stagnant and boring.
It’s a similar feeling to what NFL fans are going through right now — the doldrums in between the Super Bowl and free agency, where there’s nothing exciting in the football world beyond reserve/future contracts and endless speculation. It’s a boring time to be a football fan, and as a result, the mindset you were in at the end of the season is what you get stuck in during this point in the offseason.