After being eliminated from the MLS playoffs on Sunday, FC Dallas players stayed positive by remembering the two trophies the club had already claimed this season.
Dallas won the U.S. Open Cup in September and were also awarded the Supporters' Shield for the best regular-season record in MLS.
And although the 4-2 aggregate defeat to Seattle brought an abrupt end to hopes for a Treble of trophies, forward Tesho Akindele looked on the bright side.
"Today it kind of seems like a failure, but tomorrow it will be like this was a good season overall," he said. "If you told us we were going to get two trophies this season, we would have taken that at the beginning."
Midfielder Mauro Rosales urged fans to look past the playoff games and consider the season as a whole.
"The feeling is not just looking at this round in the [Western Conference] semifinals -- look at what we did the whole year. What we accomplished is really, really good. Two tournaments out of three is really good."
Rosales said Dallas' playoff fate could have been different if the team had not lost star Mauro Diaz to an Achilles injury three weeks earlier.
"Obviously with Mauro, it could have been a different story," Rosales said. "But it is a team. This is why we're a team. Everybody has to step up in the moment when we have to, and all players have a role on this team.
"He was a big part of the success of this team, and he's very important because he's the leader and captain. But we managed to play without him in the season as well, in the Open Cup, in the CONCACAF [Champions League]. We've been successful -- that's why we got two tournaments out of the three."
The Sounders came into the second leg with a three-goal advantage, and though Dallas goal back in the first leg on Sunday, coach Oscar Pareja said Seattle's 54th-minute away goal was too much to overcome.
"My message to the players [at half] was 'Let's just keep ourselves in the game. It's going to come,'" Pareja said. "We just had to keep the balance and keep solid in the back. Unfortunately, we just gave that play where he got his goal, and as I said, the series just got too far from us."