Step right up and place your bets. What team will buckle down, try hard enough, and succeed at going winless the whole season? Barring that (since it’s unlikely), what team will go winless the longest, and which team will have the top draft pick next year?
Our current contenders:
Buffalo Bills (AFC East)
Miami Dolphins (AFC East)
Altanta Falcons (NFC South)
New Orleans Saints (NFL South)
St. Louis Rams (NFC West)
Being in the same division, the Dolphins and the Bills play each other twice. Same with the Falcons and the Saints. The Rams play both the Saints and the Falcons. The Bills and the Dolphins have particularly tough schedules apart from each other.
The key week is week 14, when Buffalo might get its first win by hosting the Dolphins, and then the Monday Night Craptacular with the Saints visiting Atlanta.
I think it comes down to the Bills and the Falcons. Due to the tough schedule, I’ll pick the Bills, but they could both go 2-14 or worse.
I’m going to have to agree with you. It looks like it comes down to the Bills and the Falcons.
I figure the Rams either win in week 5 or 8. The look like a 4-12 team to me.
The Saints either win in week 5 or 7. They finish 5-11.
The Dolphins win this week. I can feel it. But they still finish 3-13.
For the Falcons, I look at that week 9 game, coming off the bye, against San Francisco as their first win. 3-13.
I’m hard pressed to find 3 wins for the Bills this year. 2-14 it is with victories over the Dolphins and the Jaguars (because the Jags just love to screw up games that they should win.)
So the Bills get the first overall pick and don’t win until week 12 (Jacksonville).
I think the Bills have a chance to beat the Jets at home this week. The Bills almost knocked off Denver and the Jets would be 0-3 too if they had played the Bills’ schedule. This is not to say the Bills are good, mind you.
I doubt they shall win in week 5, but with week 8 against the Browns, 9 against the Saints and week 12 the Falcons. They should win a few. the next few weeks Jackson is out (along with two O-linemen.)
Well, Buffalo eaked one out and Atlanta actually looked like a pro football team this week.
Miami could actually go 0-16. They are truly awful. Wouldn’t it be great too? We’d be less likely to keep hearing about Miami’s perfect season (14-0) in 1972 when a team even gets to 9-0. I’m so fucking tired of that.
Speaking as a Dolfan, we went 17-0 in 1972-73 season. That being said, we will probably be lucky to win three times this year, and could realistically be 0-16 at the end of December.
Even before the injuries this year, I looked at the Bills’ schedule and thought “holy crap, this is really tough.” The Jets are nothing to write home about, but the Bills looked pretty good at times today and they deserved to win. Take that, this thread!
Well, two of our most likely contenders seemed to want to go quietly into the night, beating other bad teams. However, we still have some terrible teams still fighting:
0 wins:
Miami Dolphins (AFC East)
New Orleans Saints (NFC South)
St. Louis Rams (NFC West)
Still in the running for the worst team this year:
1 win:
Buffalo Bills (AFC East)
New York Jets (AFC East)
Cincinatti Bengals (AFC North)
San Diego Chargers (AFC West)
Philadelphia Eagles (NFC East)
Minnesota Vikings (NFC North)
Chicago Bears (NFC North)
Atlanta Falcons (NFC South)
It wasn’t until I was waiting to watch the Oakland-Miami game that I saw that the back-up QB for the Bills is Trent Edwards. I saw him play in when he was in high school and he’s good. Oh, and the Jets are bad.
Anyway, I’m going to vote the Saints. Can’t believe the Rams haven’t won yet, but the season’s still relatively young. Miami? Don’t know.
And as a by the way – God, did the Eagles look awful last night. It’s incredible to me that with that offensive (ha!) line, they managed to get four receiving touchdowns the week before against the Lions. What does that say about the Lions? And what does that say about the Bears? Yes, it’s an orgy of bad football all the way around.
I think it will be the Rams who go the longest without a win. While they may eventually eclipse some of those other dogs, with Jackson out, Bulger wincing in pain with every throw, Orlando Pace out, a couple of their cornerbacks out (Lenny Walls looked like Lenny from the Simpsons against the Cowboys yesterday), the Rams can barely field a team right now.
I saw your post and appreciate your support - not to mention your prescience, since I thought the Bills were playing Dolphins this week. I was thinking of the posters before you, and the fact that we won’t be talking about the Bills in this thread Sunday.
I’ll go out on a limb and say that I think all three will win this week. Miami is the only one on the road - at Houston. The Dolphins have been close in both of their road losses this year. If Ronnie Brown gets it going this week, I can see them winning against a Houston team that probably still won’t have its best offensive weapon.
Rams are home vs Arizona… somehow I can see that QB situation blowing up on the Cardinals, especially with Warner coming back to St. Louis. If the Rams can find any kind of offensive balance, they should be able to score points in bunches off the Cardinals.
Saints home vs the Panthers… the Panthers D has been weak so far this year, I can see Brees, Colston and Bush getting on track. Like the Rams, the Saints best chance is in a high scoring game.
(OK, if 2 out of 3 of them win I’ll count this as a good prediction… I’m gonna look stupid if it’s 34-10 Texans, 44-7 Cardinals and 13-10 Panthers).
What the heck happened between last season and this for the New Orleans Saints, New York Jets, San Diego Chargers, and Chicago Bears such that they could be in contention for worst team this year? They all went to the playoffs last year, and the Chargers and the Bears were the top-seeded teams! Hell, the Bears went to the Superbowl last year!
I know the Chargers sacked their entire coaching staff, so they are recovering from that, but still…
P.S. After nearly 7 years on the SDMB, this is my 2,000th post!
Houston is a pretty decent team. That D isn finally starting to click, and they are at home. Miami can’t stop anyone. Houston is a 5.5 point favorite.
Rams have a chance. ON a neutral field, I like Zona in that one. They put up a pretty tough performance against the Ravens before beating the Steelers. And, they’ve beat Seattle, and should have beat San Fran. Zona is no joke. No line on this game.
NO has a good shot. They can’t be THAT bad, right? But Carolina is a team that still has the talent to put a good game together, but they’re wildly inconsistent. They CAN win this game. NO is a 3 point favorite.
to saiorse. . .Buff isn’t winning at the jets, and probably not at Miami. They’re not beating Jacksonville. They’ll be destroyed by Jacksonville. Cleveland is a possibility, but they’re looking good right now, too. Buff might be looking at 3-4 more wins. But not 6.
It was tough, but all three of our contenders managed to eke out close and/or last-minute losses to teams that are merely mediocre. Some had to rely on zebras, others on hobbled kickers, but they did it:
0 wins:
Miami Dolphins (AFC East)
New Orleans Saints (NFC South)
St. Louis Rams (NFC West)
Though two teams are gone from this list, we still have plenty of second-tier crap. In the running for the worst team this year:
1 win:
Buffalo Bills (AFC East)
New York Jets (AFC East)
Cincinatti Bengals (AFC North)
Philadelphia Eagles (NFC East)
Minnesota Vikings (NFC North)
Atlanta Falcons (NFC South)
