I've said it before, but the margins are especially fine with MLS playoffs, and I don't think there's anything systemic you can point to in our playoff exits. Of the four playoff ties we've lost, two were against vastly superior opposition where it would have frankly been an injustice if we'd gone through (Toronto 2016, Atlanta 2018), the other two were ties where we did enough to win but for individual defensive errors that ranged from the unlucky to the bizarre (Columbus 2017, Toronto 2019).
