It’s because they emphasize the wrong thing.

Listen to the next Super Bowl champs as they start next year’s training camps. Here are the things they’re going to talk about, because they’re the same things every champion talks about as they get into the next year. Every champion plans on repeating. They know champions almost never do, and they are determined to be the exception.

Here are the things they focus on as they organize themselves for what they think is going to be a return to the top:

It’s hard not to be resentful for our problems.

Why do these things happen to us? It’d be so nice if things would go right for once. Everybody else seems to have it better than us. Why is it that just when things seem to get going well that some new bomb falls on our heads? That’s the way we usually react to adversity.

My favorite team is filled with stupidity.

Once again, they got knocked out of the playoffs. Actually, correct that, they didn’t make the playoffs. They got knocked out of even qualifying for the playoffs. This team, from owner to coach to quarterback, is the definition of professional football’s version of Ground Hog Day. Every season they relive their fantasy game plan about how life works.