Several teams took themselves out of the 0-17 sweepstakes yesterday, including the Andy Dalton-led Panthers, who stomped the Raiders in Vegas. Carolina scored a TD on its opening drive, the first time that’s happened in 20 games.
Still alive in the race to the winless bottom are the Bengals, Jags, and Titans. However, both the Bengals and Jags play tonight; the Bengals are 7-point favorites over the Commanders, while the Jags are 5 1/2 point dogs to the Bills.
I guess since Dalton is the Ginger Messiah of Carolina, they might at least improve to mediocrity (like an 8-9 record or something).
Out of the three teams still winless, I’d say the Titans are the ones most likely to be the bottom. There are decent QBs in Cincinnati and Jacksonville. They are bound to win a few games at least.
I don’t have much faith in Will Levis. Whether it’s his fault or not, he’s just not doing that great and hasn’t proved himself yet.
He’s probably not the only or biggest problem, though I’d have said Bryce Young wasn’t the problem in Carolina before they put in Andy Dalton and seemed to instantly transform into a team that can score. So, maybe he is the problem. Either way, they don’t have a leader who can turn it around in a second year struggling QB who keeps getting sacked and turning the ball over.
So my prediction now is that if any team ends the year 0-17 it would be Tennessee. Unless Burrow or Lawrence get hurt, then what I said about Levis would also apply to Mac Jones or Jake Browning.
The Giants don’t look good but they don’t look horrible. Nabors is the real deal and their run game with Singletary isn’t bad. They should be 2-1 instead of 1-2. They would have won last week if the coach had activated a backup kicker when it was obvious theirs wasn’t at 100%. They even had an open roster spot.
They won’t beat really good teams but they were never a candidate for an ofer
Two of the three teams still fighting for perfection are in action tonight, but not against each other, with two MNF games. The Bills are making the Jaguars look like they could run away with this.
34-3 at halftime. That is a definition of an ass-kicking.
Meanwhile, the Commanders lead the winless Bengals 14-10 in the second quarter.
Yeah the Jags look really bad. The Bengals shouldn’t be this bad.
I was wondering why they were so bad and the announcers talked about the Bengals being so thin on defense. They have one LB signed off the street a week ago. I can see that. Burrow and Chase look good but you can’t win games without a defense.
Fun fact:
The Washington/Cincinnati game was the first NFL game since 1940 with no turnovers or punts.
Also, Jayden Daniels broke the rookie completion percentage record for a game, by a pretty big margin.
Lol, I can’t wait to use that later today.
The Jacksonville Jaguars are now the only winless team. Three of their four losses were in close games, so I’d guess they’ll get a W soon.
They are actually favored by 2.5 points over the Colts in Jacksonville on Sunday.
To be fair, Jacksonville has owned our asses the last few years.
Yep-Jags just won their 1st, so no 0-fer watch here this year.
Booo! And so early in the season, too.
Let’s keep the studying about ineptitude going, though. The Mets failed at failing, too.
The NFL gives poorly-performing teams so many advantages, and has such a strict cap structure, that it’s very hard to be zero-win team. It takes an amazing number of mistakes in player selection, terrible coaching, and really bad luck to pull off something like what the Browns did from 2015-2017 and only get 4 wins in 3 years (and only 1 win combined in two of those years).
Of course the Browns are showing us all once again how good they are at making bad decisions.
I will never forget when this happened.