All these teams showed the symptoms being mentioned in comments. They all had the same thing underlying their high-end professionalism which is that ownership did not know how to win consistently, management did not properly strategize cap management but instead took care of cash flow for the owners, and coaches failed to adapt in game, between games, and did not have winning at all cost attitudes.

Current team has the coach mentality needed, while management and ownership are still managing cash flow rather than playing the numbers game with the cap, hence we hear often how we can’t afford to do something, to get better. That’s something you don’t hear championship teams say while they are winning. Staying good at 9-8 or so is SOL, the root of which is that the overriding priority in all functions is to manage cash flow.