Football hurts.
It doesn’t just hurt when the Seattle Seahawks lose, although that too, sure. It damages human bodies, and every year it feels like one of the conference champions made their run in large part because they dodged significant injuries more than the average team.
Draft luck comes and goes.
Literally no better example this millennium exists than the Seahawks, who plucked All-Pro level players out of the late rounds in 2010-2012 like they had a magic 8-ball, oblong with stitches across one side, through which John Schneider could see the future. Until he suddenly couldn’t, so the wizardry dried up.