Has a 1 7 team ever made the playoffs?
That day Miami lost to the Buffalo Bills to fall to 1-7. No NFL team has gone from 1-7 to the playoffs.
The Kansas City Chiefs (14-3) have clinched a playoff berth. The Los Angeles Chargers (10-7) have clinched a playoff berth.
2015 Kansas City Chiefs
then became the second 1-5 team to make the playoffs, mounting a 10-game run that extended to 11 after a shutout win over the Texans in the wild-card round.
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| 1992 San Diego Chargers season | |
|---|---|
| Record | 11–5 |
| Division place | 1st AFC West |
- 1 of 25. 1996 Indianapolis Colts. ...
- 2 of 25. 24. 1983 Denver Broncos. ...
- 3 of 25. 2007 Tennessee Titans. ...
- 4 of 25. 1999 Detroit Lions. ...
- 5 of 25. 1999 Miami Dolphins. ...
- 6 of 25. 1980 Minnesota Vikings. ...
- 7 of 25. 1985 Cleveland Browns. ...
- 8 of 25. 1978 Atlanta Falcons.
2010 Seattle Seahawks (7-9)
Seattle would set up home field advantage against the defending Super Bowl Champions the New Orleans Saints (11-5) in a Wild Card playoff game. The Seahawks had a -97 point differential for the season, the worst ever for a team making the NFL playoffs.
Aside from the 1982 strike-shortened season, which had two 4-5 teams in the postseason, there have been 14 teams with 8-8 records or worse go to the playoffs in the league's history. Some of them actually ended up winning in the postseason!
A handful of teams have put together valiant comeback efforts -- four have won two straight to force a Game 6 after falling behind three games to none, and two of these teams pushed the series to Game 7. But only one, the 2004 Boston Red Sox, has completed the comeback.
Every current NFL team has reached playoffs
And as it turns out, all 32 active NFL teams have qualified for and even won a game in the playoffs.
Never has a team with at least 50 wins missed the playoffs. Even before the 82-game season was instituted, no team above . 600 ever missed the postseason.
Has an NFL team ever went 15-1?
1984 San Francisco 49ers
The '84 49ers were the first team in NFL history to go 15-1 after the league expanded its schedule to 16 games in 1978. Led by coach Bill Walsh and quarterback Joe Montana, the 49ers suffered their only loss of the regular season in Week 7 against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
They also became the first team in all four major professional sports in America to start 15–0 in the postseason. The Warriors set the best playoff record in NBA history by going 16–1 (. 941).
So far, 1,075 different final scores have been achieved in NFL history. The lowest possible score is 0-0 and has been achieved 73 times, though the most recent scoreless tie came on Nov. 7, 1943. The most points any team has scored in an NFL game is 73.
Since the merger with the American Football League in 1970, there have been 322 clubs that began their season 2-5. Since 1990, 144 teams have started 2-5. Of the latter, only eight have made the playoffs.
Since the National Football League began in 1920, only one team has played a perfect season (both regular season and playoffs): the 1972 Miami Dolphins, who won all fourteen of their regular season games and three postseason games, including Super Bowl VII, to finish the season 17–0–0.
There have been 73 games in pro football history that ended in a 0-0 tie, according to Pro Football Reference. But it's been nearly 80 years since the last one, meaning there's yet to be a scoreless tie in the Super Bowl era.
As for an 0–4 start, it was down to just the 1992 San Diego Chargers, the only team to traverse that deficit and make the playoffs.
Again, this has not happened post-merger, with the last such game coming in 1938 between the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers. The lowest NFL score in the post-merger history is 3-0. In the course of the Super Bowl era, it has happened a total of six times.
A conversion safety by the defense is also possible, though highly unlikely; although this has never occurred, it is the only possible way a team could finish with a single point in an American football game.
It takes a lot of luck to make the playoffs, let alone win the Super Bowl.
Has an NFL team ever won 0 games?
Since 1944, only five teams have had winless seasons in the NFL: the 1960 Dallas Cowboys (0–11–1), the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0–14), the 1982 Baltimore Colts (0–8–1) the 2008 Detroit Lions (0–16), and the 2017 Cleveland Browns (0–16).
There have been a total of four teams, 1999 Titans, 2000 Ravens, 2007 Giants and the 2008 Cardinals that have reached the Super Bowl following an 8-8 season and two of those teams, the Ravens and Giants have won the Super Bowl.
Since the start of the Super Bowl era, 29 teams, including the 2022 Eagles, have won at least eight games before losing their first game. Of the 28 previous teams, 15 reached the Super Bowl, with eight of those teams ending the season with the Lombardi Trophy in tow.
500 teams out there hoping to go from mediocre to great with a playoff push, the answer is no. But there have been a few somewhat close calls. Two 9-7 teams have made the Super Bowl and lost: Los Angeles Rams, Super Bowl XIV.
The Raiders are 0-3 for the first time since 2018, and since 1979, six NFL teams have started 0-3 and made the playoffs, the last one being the Houston Texans, which started 0-3 in 2018 but rebounded to win their next nine games and made the playoffs at 11-5 before losing to the Indianapolis Colts, 21-7, in an AFC Wild ...
The most recent team to do that was the 2020 Denver Nuggets when they beat the Utah Jazz and the Los Angeles Clippers. But the most famous 3-1 comeback in the NBA was when the Cleveland Cavaliers turned the tide against the Golden State Warriors during the 2016 NBA Finals to blow up the NBA betting lines.
They each won three game 7s. The Bruins in the first, third and fourth rounds. No team has even played four game 7s that I could find since the league went to four 7 game series in the 80s.
Detroit Lions, Miami Dolphins, New York Giants. The long-suffering franchise has made the postseason in only three campaigns since 2000 and hasn't won a playoff game since 1991. Detroit had a bit of bad luck in 2017, missing the postseason despite a 9-7 mark—the same record that landed a bid in 2016.
The longest currently active NFL Playoffs drought belongs to the New York Jets who have gone 12 seasons without making the playoffs. The New York Jets last playoff game was a 24-19 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Jan 23, 2011.
The longest all time Super Bowl drought belongs to the Arizona Cardinals, who also have the longest active drought at 75 seasons.
Has a 100 win team ever missed the playoffs?
But in Game 162, the Giants lost to the Dodgers, and the Braves beat the Rockies to win the division by a single game. The Giants missed the postseason and became the only NL team in the divisional era to win 100-plus games and not win its division.
The Cincinnati Bengals, Las Vegas Raiders, Tennessee Titans, Carolina Panthers, and Atlanta Falcons all started the year 0-2 -- three of those teams reached the playoffs last season. On the opposite end of the spectrum, 63% of teams (165 of 262) that started 2-0 advanced to the postseason since 1990.
No, a team with a losing record in the regular season has never made the Super Bowl.
Drew Brees was 0-4 in his career against the Ravens coming into Sunday's game but has now beaten all 32 franchises. He joined Peyton Manning and Brett Favre as the only players to defeat all 32 NFL teams.
The Patriots added postseason victories over the Jacksonville Jaguars in the divisional playoff round and a 21-12 win over the San Diego Chargers in the AFC Championship Game to run the streak to an amazing 18-0. In doing so, the Patriots became the first team ever to go 18-0 in a season.
The final score of 31-5 marked the first time in NFL history that a game had ever ended with that score.
Earlier, in 2019, LSU became the third college football team ever to finish the season at 15-0, and the second in consecutive years. Penn was first to do so in 1897 and Clemson followed in 2018.
1. 1962 Green Bay Packers. Finally, we reached our pick for the best NFL team of all time – the 1962 Green Bay Packers. This team went 13-1 and became NFL champions (before the Super Bowl existed).
The answer is yes, but fans would have to go back to the 1976 Cincinnati Reds to find the last perfect postseason performance. The Reds swept the Phillies in three games in the NLCS that year before clinching their World Series title with a 4-0 series win over the Yankees. The playoffs expanded to three rounds in 1995.
Yes it is. Team A scores a touchdown, but the extra point attempt kick is not only blocked, but blocked and then run to the opposite end zone for an offensive safety , which counts 1 point.
What is the rarest play in football?
The NFL still has never seen a one-point safety.
I found this chart that shows how many times one of the now 15,964 NFL games have ended in a certain score. 20-17 is the most common score with 260 occurrences. 27-24 is next up with an even 200.
It is interesting to note that of the four teams to reach the Super Bowl after opening 0-2, three have come away with the Lombardi Trophy in the 1993 Dallas Cowboys (won Super Bowl XXVIII), the 2001 New England Patriots (won Super Bowl XXXVI) and the 2007 New York Giants (won Super Bowl XLII).
Yes, the 1992 Chargers started 1–4 (they actually started 0–4, then won their 5th game to get to 1–4) and finished 11–5, winning the division and earning the #3 seed in the AFC playoffs that year.
NFL teams that use the 4–3 defense as of 2022 include the Washington Commanders, New York Jets, Chicago Bears, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Buffalo Bills, Philadelphia Eagles, New Orleans Saints, San Francisco 49ers, Indianapolis Colts, Carolina Panthers and Kansas City Chiefs.
The other times it happened were 2008 (10-0 Tennessee, 0-10 Detroit), 2007 (10-0 New England, 0-10 Miami), 1984 (10-0 Miami, 0-10 Buffalo and Houston), and 1975 (10-0 Minnesota and 0-10 San Diego). In all, 17 teams started 10-0 in the Super Bowl era before the Steelers did it this season.
No, but one team has come close - the 2010 Raiders went 6–0 in their division and also beat their erstwhile cross-town rivals the Rams and former division foes the Seahawks en-route to an 8–8 record.
Only two NFL teams went 0-16 in 43 years: the Cleveland Browns in 2017, and, yep, the Detroit Lions in 2008. “For us to win, we've got to play damn near perfect,” said Campbell, the former Texas Aggie, “and that's on us.
The 2011 Giants were the only team to win the Super Bowl with 7 losses, so they are the Super Bowl champion with the worst record after 15 and 16 games, too.
Currently, seven teams from each of the league's two conferences qualify for the playoffs. A tie-breaking procedure exists if required. The tournament culminates in the Super Bowl: the league's championship game in which two teams, one from each conference, play each other to become champion of the NFL.
Has an 0 2 team ever made the playoffs?
The Cincinnati Bengals, Las Vegas Raiders, Tennessee Titans, Carolina Panthers, and Atlanta Falcons all started the year 0-2 -- three of those teams reached the playoffs last season. On the opposite end of the spectrum, 63% of teams (165 of 262) that started 2-0 advanced to the postseason since 1990.
Denver Broncos: Super Bowl XXIV
The Broncos' fourth Super Bowl loss was excruciating. They allowed 55 points in their 55-10 loss to the San Francisco 49ers. That is still the most points ever allowed in a Super Bowl.
The 2007 New England Patriots were the first NFL team to achieve a perfect 16-0 regular season record, and seemed destined to go down as the greatest team ever until their stunning defeat in Super Bowl XLII.
1. Super Bowl XXIV: San Francisco 49ers 55, Denver Broncos 10. Not Denver again! The largest margin in Super Bowl history was this 45-point laugher, where Joe Montana (22-for-29, 297 yards, five touchdowns, and zero interceptions) outclassed John Elway (10-for-26, 108 yards, zero touchdowns, and two interceptions).
Since the 2020 season, seven teams are seeded from each conference (AFC and NFC), with the top team from each conference getting a first-round "bye". The remaining six teams in each conference play against each other in the Wild Card round.
Both conferences conduct the playoffs in the traditional bracket format. All rounds are best-of-seven series. Series are played in the 2–2–1–1–1 format, meaning the team with home-court advantage hosts games 1, 2, 5, and 7, while their opponent hosts games 3, 4, and 6, with games 5, 6 and 7 being played if needed.
A total of 14 teams compete in the playoffs, which means there are seven teams from each conference. Each first-round seed will receive an automatic bye into the divisional round, while the other six teams will compete in the wild card round.
Has there ever been a 0-0 tie in the NFL? There have been 73 games in pro football history that ended in a 0-0 tie, according to Pro Football Reference. But it's been nearly 80 years since the last one, meaning there's yet to be a scoreless tie in the Super Bowl era.
In the NBA's 75-year history, 146 teams have faced a 3-0 series deficit in a seven-game postseason series. Of those teams, 14 have won at least two games while three have won three straight games to force a decisive Game 7. None have come back to win the series.
Yes, many NFL games have ended 0-0. Per Pro Football Reference, 73 games in pro football history have ended in a 0-0 tie. However, the last time it happened was almost 80 years ago, meaning there have been no scoreless ties in the Super Bowl era.
Has an 0 4 team ever won Super Bowl?
Have the Buffalo Bills ever won a Super Bowl? No, but they are one of the teams who have had several chances. In fact, the Bills are 0-4 all-time in Super Bowl appearances.
It is interesting to note that of the four teams to reach the Super Bowl after opening 0-2, three have come away with the Lombardi Trophy in the 1993 Dallas Cowboys (won Super Bowl XXVIII), the 2001 New England Patriots (won Super Bowl XXXVI) and the 2007 New York Giants (won Super Bowl XLII).
