NFL’s nine Winless teams ;who has lost hope to 2024 season…….
The light is fading fast for the nine winless clubs that dot the NFL landscape, but the darkness hasn’t yet encompassed.
An 0-2 start isn’t what anyone prescribed to open the 2024 campaign, with back-to-back losses putting teams on the ropes before fall decorations are fully up.
The yearly stats for 0-2 squads are infamous. From 1990 through last season, 279 teams began 0-2. Of them, just 32 made the playoffs (11.5%), 17 won a division title (6.1%) and three won the Super Bowl (1.1%). Over the past three years, 19 of 21 clubs to start 0-2 missed the playoffs.
Another loss to fall to 0-3 could be considered the death knell of the season. Of 162 teams to start a campaign with back-to-back-to-back defeats since 1990, just four made the postseason, two won the division and zero hoisted the Lombardi Trophy.
There are recent examples of swift turnarounds. The Bengals famously did so in 2022, making it all the way to the AFC Championship Game after dropping their first two contests of the season. Last year’s Texans lost by double digits their first two times out … and then proceeded to win the AFC South and log a rollicking postseason win, fueled by C.J. Stroud’s ridiculous rookie campaign.
With all that in mind, let’s spotlight one reason to be optimistic about each 0-2 team, while simultaneously ranking these nine struggling squads according to who has the best chance to turn this season around.
