Which teams facing an 0-2 start have the most to be worried about?

Only one week of the season has been played, but that doesn’t mean we can’t pull the alarm and feign fear for a handful of franchises that took a loss in Week 1. Teams that start 0-2 typically do not make the playoffs and that has extended to the 17-game era of the NFL. The only team to make the playoffs after starting 0-2 in the 17-game era was last season’s Cincinnati Bengals, who made the AFC title game.

The Vikings have a head start on 0-2 pain after their loss to the Eagles, and a handful of teams will be fighting like hell this weekend to make sure they don’t suffer the same fate. It’s not impossible to make the playoffs after starting 0-2, but it’s a tall task to expect a team that started 0-2 to get close to running the table in order to make the playoffs — they couldn’t even win the first two games!

Still, not all NFL teams are created equal and some have the facilities to dig themselves out of a tough hole. Let’s look at where all the 0-1 teams are as far as their season hopes are concerned if they were to fall to 0-2 this weekend.

The dominant quarterback tier

Chiefs (at Jaguars), Bills (vs. Raiders), Bengals (vs. Ravens), Chargers (at Titans)

Anything can happen in Week 2, including some of the preeminent Super Bowl contenders ending up 0-2 to start the season. But there are some teams that don’t need to go into panic mode if their teams start the first two weeks winless — teams that already have elite quarterbacks.

No one is panicking with Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Joe Burrow or Justin Herbert under center. As mentioned before, the Bengals started the season 0-2 last year and still were able to ride their stable of elite talent to the playoffs and even the AFC championship game. If you have one of the guys worth paying $250 million or more, 0-2 isn’t a deathblow.

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