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Not sure how you can say that. As even during the Patriots dynasty the Steelers won 2 Super Bowls after the 2005 and 2008 season. And lost a 3rd in 2010.
While the Colts and Seahawks both won and lost a Super Bowl within a 5 year span.
I stand corrected. I guess the better way of putting it is that two championships in four or five years will be the new standard for a team to be a "dynasty" in this new era. Outside of the Patriots, no team in the last fifteen years has been even close to dynastic in any way. Teams like the Steelers, Ravens, and Giants can't even make the playoffs half the time even though they are the tier below the Pats. The Packers have one Super Bowl appearance despite their consistency with Rodgers. You can already see where the Seahawks are headed...same star players as before, but now these 6-7 guys take up 80% of the cap rather than 20% despite the same production. The nature of the salary cap and free agency along with lower draft positions mean you can only win consistently with other worldly QB play, and even that often comes up short in the playoffs. And then virtually every Super Bowl comes down to the last few drives and is basically a coin flip, which may explain the Colts and Seahawks 1-1 records. Teams sure as heck aren't going 4-0 in Super Bowls anymore. The Patriots have outscored their six opponents by a grand total of five points in all their Super Bowls this era, with the largest margin of victory being four points.