The bright lights of Sunday Night Football will shine on two desperate teams this week, as the Kansas City Chiefs visit the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium. Both franchises enter at 0-2, a start that has turned Week 3 into a must-win battle neither side expected.

The Chiefs’ stumble out of the gate is startling. Patrick Mahomes and company now sit in the same column as the Browns and Jets, a far cry from the juggernaut standard Kansas City has set in recent years. For the Giants, this is all too familiar — seven times in the last nine seasons they have opened 0-2. History offers little comfort: since 1990, just 12% of teams to start 0-2 reached the playoffs, though three managed to climb the mountain and hoist the Lombardi Trophy.

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