(This sentiment has probably already been posted here)
As empty as this feels now, imagine the empty feeling that you get when your team actually wins the whole thing, and you realize that none of it changed anything for the fanbase. You go and get hammered at a parade. We find excuses to do that anyway.
And we wouldn't have won the Super Bowl last year in any case. Bengals or Rams would have sliced right through us like we saw today.