As soon as the final whistle went at Rugby Park, you just knew there would be days of overreaction from Jambos.
I've heard a wide range of opinions from 'this defeat can be a good thing for Hearts' to 'we are definitely going to finish third at best'.
We need remember that after finishing in the bottom six last season, Hearts top the table going into the penultimate weekend in March and have led the way since late September. Derek McInnes' remit was to take us back to third place and he is on course to deliver.
McInnes has attracted flak from fans in recent days and I understand the frustrations. The main gripe supporters have is we've not used the squad well enough in the second half of the season and I think that is absolutely fair.
The defeat at Kilmarnock was arguably our worst performance of the season and I think a lot of that is down to a combination of fatigue and players picking up niggly injuries.
The drop off-in form in Alexandros Kyziridis is alarming. He should have been dropped a month ago. I know McInnes appreciates his workrate and I guess that's why he's been deployed on the right, to protect Michael Steinwender, but we're nullifying his strengths.
Kyzi playing on the left, cutting in, drives fear into opponents. We've got Sabah Kerjota, Islam Chesnokov, Alan Forrest and Rogers Mato all fit as wide options, yet we only appear to play with one out-and-out winger at times.
Mato is a strange one. We made a big push to sign him in January, with McInnes saying "he's ready to go". Since that comment, the Uganda forward has made three substitute appearance totalling 14 minutes.
I do not think our January signings – Marc Leonard aside – have improved our starting 11. I would give Jordi Altena a run in the team, but the fact he's not 6ft 2in probably means McInnes won't swap him for Steinwender.
Each weekend the billing of 'biggest game of the season' gets trotted out and it's a fair argument for this Saturday with Dundee visiting Gorgie.
There's chat around Cammy Devlin and Lawrence Shankland returning for this. Shanks must start if fit.
We need to see a better performance and something fans can get a lift from heading into the business end of the campaign.
