NFL, Week 2 and Playoff Predictions
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‘A Playoff Appearance Seems Highly Unlikely,’ ‘The Defense Is the Problem’ — NFL Analysts Have Mixed Feelings on Texans’ Disastrous 0-4 Start
PFN asked our NFL analysts for their thoughts on where the Texans go from here and whether it's time to hit the panic button after an 0-4 start.
Five teams have work to do if they hope to make the NFL playoffs in 2026 after losing their first three games of the regular season.
Since 2000, Houston is the only NFL team to start a season 0-3 and still make the playoffs. And they’ve done it twice -- in 2018 and 2025. So, if there’s one team that knows how to turn a disastrous start into a postseason run, it’s the Texans. But 0-4 is a different story.
If the season ended today, the Broncos would make the NFL playoffs as the AFC's seventh seed thanks to tiebreakers over the Cincinnati Bengals (2-1) and Cleveland Browns (2-1). There's a lot of football left to be played, though, so this playoff picture will undoubtedly change in the coming weeks.
The Houston Texans lost the Indianapolis Colts, 19-17, to start the 2026 season 0-3, just like C.J. Stroud and DeMeco Ryans' team did in 2025.
I did a little nfl trivia to see if I can guess which football teams have never made it all the way to the end of the nfl Playoffs and won the Super Bowl. Of course dynasties like the New England Patriots,
Here's how the NFL standings and the playoff picture shape up through three weeks - with plenty of room for change.
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Which 0-2 NFL teams still have hope in 2026? Ranking all 8 by playoff viability
Since the NFL playoff field expanded in 2020, just 16 percent of teams that started 0-2 have made the playoffs, a worrying trend for these eight clubs.