So it turns out that winning a Super Bowl doesn’t actually guarantee that you were the best team in a given season, and it certainly doesn’t warrant a spot on a list of best teams from the decade—at least Tom Blair, writer for NFL.com
As it turns out, context matters. A list of the NFL’s best teams of the past decade only includes three actual Super Bowl winners from Blair. The list also includes a few Super Bowl losers and a startling amount of teams that never even had a chance at the Lombardi, the Kansas City Chiefs included.