Did you know the NFL playoffs actually start in September? Though they'll be playing out the rest of the 2025 season regardless of what happens in Week 3 , 10 teams are essentially playing to keep their hopes of advancing to the real postseason and winning Super Bowl LX alive this weekend.

History tells us that starting 0-2 is a damper on your chances of making it to the playoffs, but beginning the season 0-3 is closer to a death knell. Since 2002 -- if we treat the seventh-best team in each conference as a playoff qualifier before the NFL moved to the 14-team postseason format in 2020 -- 13.3% of teams that started 0-2 overcame their slow starts and made the postseason. Three squads -- the Broncos, Rams and Ravens -- did so a year ago.

Dropping to 0-3? Good luck. Since 2002, j

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