In all seriousness, I'm sadly asking the question after today. What are the chances we prove to be one of the (arguably THE) least competitive teams in modern NFL history?

 

28-2

19-9

45-17

34-3 (with a quarter to play)

 

That's 126 against in 4 games and only 31 for. That's in no way, shape, or form competitive after the 1st quarter (and that's even a stretch to say).

 

I am indeed in the club with the thought that we win 1-3 games for the mere fact that it's the NFL and to be horrible enough to lose 16 of 16 games isn't easy, but we aren't competitive at all.

 

I've looked up the expansion teams since 1995 as well as some other horrible teams that come to mind and counted the losses that were within 10 points (and thus can reasonably be assumed to have mostly been fairly competitive games).

 

The 2008 Lions went 0-16 but at least had 8 games within 10 points.

 

1995 Panthers 7-9, Jaguars 4-12.

1999 Browns 2-14 with 3 losses within 10 points.

2002 Texans 4-12 with 5 losses within 10 points.

 

A list of the worst seasons since the last expansion in 2002 - http://athlonsports.com/nfl/worst-10-nfl...-expansion

 

2009 Rams 1-15 with 6 losses within 10 points.

 

2007 Dolphins 1-15 with 7 losses within 10 points.

 

I'm this bored during the Jags game, yes. But seriously, while I am a realist that it's only 4 games into the season, that is now officially a quarter of the season we have not be hardly the least bit competitive and it's truly difficult to look at 1 quarter in any of these 4 games and say that it was a competitive quarter. I'm not becoming a discontented fan and I won't start screaming for anyone to be fired, but it is beginning to set in that we may hardly be competitive this year.

 

 

 

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