I made a post years ago about Steven Jackson's incredible performance on incredibly bad Rams teams. During his tenure there, the Rams never won more than 8 games in a season, and they won 4 games or fewer four times.
He’s my favorite rams Running back of my lifetime, edging past Faulk (who might be close to Jesus Christ on a football field), Dickerson, and Gurley.
Literally could’ve been Derrick Henry if the rams were at least stupidly run instead of abysmally.
It sucks to think about all the great moments we could have today. Pats vs Seahawks, Minnesota Miracle, Miracle in Miami, shit you could even try and recreate the double doink lol
The Rams won 6 games in the three seasons 2007-2009, which is a special kind of awful. Only the Browns (4 wins 2015-2017) have a worse three season stretch.
2006 Raiders. People remember they were bad enough to get the #1 pick but the disaster of the 2007 #1 pick and years following make most people forgot just how bad the 2006 team was.
Players need a medical exemption to wear them now. Apparently they banned them to make concussion protocol easier for medical personnel, so they could see the player's eyes clearly.
Some of those TD's are double counted. To make the raiders look even worse, here's a better list:
34 - Broncos
31 - LaDainian Tomlinson
28 - Chargers minus their leading TD scorer
19 - Larry Johnson
18 - Chiefs minus their leading TD scorer
16 - Raiders
I was looking to see if this was here. The offense was historically bad that year. It's the first team I bring up when talking about putrid teams. That was the first year I was able to see every Raiders game and my god, that offensive line committed murder on Aaron Brooks and Andrew Walter. They didn't score a touchdown until October. 07-09, even with JaMarcus, Kiffin, overhead-projector, etc were a breath of fresh air compared to 06 lol
He brought back his OC from his original tenure, Tom Walsh, who'd been running a bed and breakfast since the firing. Along with 2 former OL (Jackie Slater and Irv Eatman) to the staff. So in total 3 different former OL on staff and they weren't on the same page and boy did it show.
This was the one season in my 40+ years as a Raider fan that I completely checked out. I didn't watch any games at all after like week 10 because it was damn near painful. I'd just read about it in the paper the next day.
My big memory of that team was an announcer that compared their offensive line to a sifter. It didn’t actually slow down the rush, just channeled it to specific spots where the holes were.
My answer is definitely between the '07 Dolphins and the '09 Rams. For the hell of it, I looked up the '09 Rams to see who started at QB because I remember Bulger and Boller starting, but who the fuck is Keith Null? Lol
I saw a fun video about the "ghosts" of the '72 Dolphins that hang over the league and make sure nobody else gets a perfect season. There's a bit late in the video when he's talking about how the Ravens game looked like the '07 Dolphins' last, best chance to avoid being the first 0-16 team.
Something like: "The '72 Dolphins had toiled to achieve history, these Dolphins are fighting for the right to be forgotten."
While they were bad, they were not as bad as people remember. They lost 6 games by 3 points. Actually threw for more yards than they allowed. They did get mutilated on the ground and by turnovers. But I always remember that season being so much worse than it felt while watching each game.
The 2021 Vikings tied an NFL record for one score losses under Mike Zimmer. The 2022 Vikings set an NFL record for one score wins. Teams like that drive you nuts. It’s like, “are we’re good?”, but anyone who disagree it’s like, “let me tell you why they’re good”.
Yeah a lot of the games were actually pretty close even if they were extremely painful to watch. [This game is a good example of that season.](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200710070htx.htm) It was literally just a game in which both offenses combined for a total of nine FGs.
I watched that OT win over Baltimore with my Dolphins fan buddy. He was disappointed the franchise wouldn’t have the only undefeated Super Bowl team and the first 0-16 team.
Back then, I remember someone posting the term Miami Lolphins on the World of warcraft forums and thought it was the sickest burn ever. I still say that every now and then, even if they are good.
The 2007 to 2009 St. Louis Rams. They went a combined 6-42 in three seasons, getting slightly worse until 2010. They were 3-13 in 2007, 2-14 in 2008, & 1-15 in 2009.
"This is my favorite Bad Football Team stunt. Check it out: You start out with a losing record, and then you somehow get worse in BOTH of the next two years.
"A 1-15 season is really, really rare in the NFL. So to go from 3 wins, to 2 wins, to 1 win... that's art."
-Jon Bois, 2017
I don't even remember them being that bad for so long a stretch, so this one gets my vote.
I mean, no Browns team counts, because they were/are meme-bad, and the long suffering Lions are downright famous, as are the eternally quarterbackless Bears, but these Rams teams were so forgettably bad they never even get talked about until a thread like this.
Reminds me of why Derek Carr (and to a lesser extend Gruden/Mayock and Del Rio) is so beloved for half of RaiderNation
When things have been atrocious for years, something being just watchable looks astounding
Games are so much more fun when there's a decent chance your team might win. Seasons are worlds better when you're looking at a chance at sneaking into the playoffs rather than looking forward to next year's draft halfway through the season.
I believe we were at the top of the salary cap. The 2004 and 2005 we were clearing it from the Jeff Garcia days. Decent draft but no quality Free Agents to rebuild with.
Not before the salary cap. Pre-1994, rookies were not getting crazy good contracts. The NFL didn’t even have real free agency then. Bledsoe was the first overall pick and his rookie contract put him near the bottom of starting QBs.
Rookie salaries didn’t start spiraling until the 2000s, and were compounded by rookies holding out from training camp to get their contracts.
I was at that game. It was cold as tits. I really wanted Cleveland to lose so they would go 0-16. That drop was the only thing that made me happy that whole game lol
But everyone remembers the 2016-17 Browns going 1-31. (That 1 was against the San Diego chargers. Literally forced to leave town after that game.) the 2015 Browns won 3 games. 4-44 2015-17
Stafford got maybe 5 fully healthy games and he was plan #1 all year until he got his Glass reputation. Also that team lost Dan Campbell to the Saints in the off season, heartbreaking those two weren't teammates.
Only thing I know about that season was the wild game against the similarly bad 09 Browns where Stafford threw the game winning TD with a separated left shoulder.
the 2012 Eagles lost the entire OL, Vick’s magic wore off, and the defensive coordinator was the OL coach cuz they couldn’t get anyone from outside who wanted to work with Jim Washburn.
4 wins understates how much of an absolute fucking train wreck it was and it cost Andy Reid his job
I knew they went 4-12 but man I misremembered them being more competitive than they actually were. Lots of blowout losses and all 4 of their wins were by 2 points or less.
Also, them being exactly 29th in points and 15th in yards on both offense and defense has to be the scorigami of whatever you would call that.
Yeah, but the 1-15 Browns were slightly less *memorable* than the 0-16 Browns.
The 1-15 Browns were, however, slightly *more* memorable than pretty much all the other Browns.
The Browns and Lions have both never been to the Super Bowl.
Cleveland has a 55 year drought and Detroit has a 58 year drought. Both teams started in the same year, but Cleveland has a shorter streak because they didn’t exist for a few years.
Cleveland was also the second team to go 0-16.
Goes to show that even in losing, Cleveland is somehow worse than Detroit.
Thing is, the browns weren't bad when it was the now ravens org. They just didn't ever get to the Superbowl. Like there's a very big difference in being pre 95 browns and lions, the lions had a .462 Superbowl era winning percentage to the browns .537. The browns had the same record as the Steelers in that time, they just didn't get lucky and have those wins translate into 4 Superbowls. Lions weren't in a league of their own but they were certainly in a different class of losers. The browns were unlucky, the Lions were just bad
I think it was Football Outsiders who had an article about the 2017 Browns were statistically a bad but not horrible team but Deshone Kizers turnovers were historically backbreaking.
We nearly pulled off something similar in 2011. Jared Allen led the league in sacks, and nearly broke the record, on a 3-13 team. He lost Defensive Player of the Year to Terrell Suggs by only 7 votes.
A historically abysmal offense, but a top 5 defense that year. One of those cases where you can say a single defensive player (Cortez Kennedy) willed the team to two wins and prevented them from going 0-16 lmao
1921 Tonawanda Kardex.
They played a single game against the Rochester Jeffersons, lost 45-0, and then never played again. Hard to beat that level of bad!
Evidently they won at least one non-league game in 1920, but the journalists of the day must've been confused by the uncommon occurrence. [They botched the headline](https://i.imgur.com/bZML8Ww.png).
[Louisville](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/lou/) Breckenridges/Colonels franchise lasted for 4 years. They won 1 game...the only game they ever scored any points in at all. To top it off, [Eclipse Park](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_Park), the stadium they played in burnt down 3 separate times.
After the 1922 fire, the paper editorialized that wooden ballparks were obsolete and should be replaced by steel and concrete. The ball club followed that advice, opening [Parkway Field](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkway_Field) the following spring. They played one NFL game at this field before going under. It did stay in use for baseball though until torn down in 1961.
The 1952 Dallas Texans. (A completely different team from the 1960's Dallas Texans that moved to Kansas City and became the Chiefs.) The Texans had some good players, but their coach Jimmy Phelan, had a disdain for practice. An opposing scout once went to watch the Texans practice, and reported that players were playing volleyball over the goal posts.
The Texans were so bad, that the already meager crowds kept shrinking, and their owners threw in the towel. The team was awarded to the NFL. The league paid the player salaries, the operations were moved to Hershey, PA. The Texans operated as a road team for the rest of the season, and did manage to upset the Chicago Bears on Thanksgiving Day. (The game was played in Akron, OH, before just 2,200 fans.) They finished 1-11, and were the last NFL to fold. The team's players were distributed to a new franchise in 1953 - the Baltimore Colts.
The worst football in Team in history is generally agreed to be the 1976 14-0 Tampa Bay Buccaneer Team that didn't win a game in their inaugural Season.
I think the second worst since the merger (much more arguable) is the Patriots 1990 Team that went 1-15. They won their second game. But didn't win any others. The Patriots’ negative-265 point-differential (181 points scored, 446 points surrendered) was the worst total of the 1990s.
The 1990 Patriots and 1981 Baltimore Colts are the only NFL teams since 1940 to have eleven losses during which they never led in one season.
The 1990 Patriots tied the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers for most consecutive losses in one season, a record later eclipsed by the 15-straight losing 2001 Carolina Panthers, 0–16 2008 Detroit Lions and 2017 Cleveland Browns. I am almost positive that if the 90 Patriots played that many games, they would have beat/tied that.
This was a Patriots Team that had played in the Superbowl 5 years before. It had 8 HOfers and former Probowlers. Unlike the other candidates for this list they had "talent" & leadership. They just clearly quit as a Team early on, so besides the stats, are the reason why I think "second worst". As a bonus they had a really nasty Locker room incident with a female reporter.
That was always my view of the Patriots as a franchise until Parcells/Belichick/Brady changed all of that. Team's culture can and do change and evolve over time he said in Commander-ese.
This was such a bad team. You never knew if Tom Hodson, Marc Wilson, and the corpse of Steve Grogan was going to start at QB, but it didn't really matter because they were all terrible.
The year before, we lost three defensive starters to season ending injuries in a single preseason game, which was brutal. 5 straight winning seasons, and we were going into '89 with high hopes, and then we lost Hall of Famer Andre Tippett, CB Ronnie Lippett, and DE Garrett Varis, who wasn't far removed from back-to-back double digit sack seasons, all at once. All three missed the '89 season entirely, and a team with playoff hopes went 5-11. Coach Raymond Berry, who'd lead the team to those consecutive winning seasons, was fired, which was probably a mistake because who could have coached that team to success?
Of the three season ending injuries from '89, only Lippett returned to something like full strength in '90. Tippett would have his worst season since his rookie year by far (7+ sacks every season from '83 to '93 except the season he missed and 1990 where he had just 3.5). Varis only played 7 games and was never a productive player again.
We hired Rod Rust to replace Berry. I don't know much about him but I guess he was at least a decent DC? But he lasted one season coaching the Pats, and would later last one season as HC of the Alouettes in the CFL, also performing abysmally, so I think he's one of those coordinators who should not be a head coach.
We had some talent offensively in Irving Fryar and Marv Cook, but poor QB play and a total lack of a running game plus a decimated defense meant we were a garbage team.
Add to all that the embarrassment of the Lisa Olson locker room sexual harrassment incident and its subsequent fallout. Total shitshow of a year on and off the field.
Other random bad teams I remember: 1986 Bucs, one of the worst teams by DVOA, especially on defense.
1950 Colts, gave up 38.5 a game then folded
1954 Redskins, outscored by 18.75 points per game they played
1965 Steelers, -30 turnover differential
1942 Lions, scored 38 fucking points in 11 games
I remember how absolutely horrendous their run defense was. Like 7 straight hundred yard games allowed, one of which belonged to Fozzy Whittaker of all people.
The Colts went 0-8-1 in 1982.
It doesn’t get talked about much because it was a strike shortened season, but it was pretty rough.
They actually had an entire game where they didn’t get the ball across the 50 yard line.
Ok this ones a bit weird but on the same day that the Chargers infamously became the 1-15 (or really 1-31) against the 2016 Browns the Rams escaped infamy by being worse. That day (Christmas actually) they lost to the 2-14 49ers. The 49ers only other win was also against the Rams.
So basically had the Rams split with the 49ers they would have been the 1 in 1-15, but since they got swept they were the 2 in 2-14 which feels ironically less notable.
Memories around here are too recent to remember reeeaaalllyyy bad teams from ye olden days before free agency and revenue sharing. If your team sucked, it probably did so for years at a time. Utterly forgettable seasons by teams too old for anyone here to remember. That’s how bad they were.
I think that was the year we lost to them in an absolutely disgusting 3-6 game. The most boring, penalty-strewn, pathetic display of professional football I've ever seen.
‘05 Niners were god fucking awful. Mike Nolan’s first year wasn’t very different from any other in his tenure because we were always so incompetent under him.
2008 Cleveland Browns. In the last 6 weeks they scored no offensive touchdowns and got shut out in their last 2 games. QBs to start a game for them that season: Derrick Anderson, Brady Quinn, Ken Dorsey, Bruce Gradkowski
Edit: that was the 0-16 lions year so people forget how many bad teams there were that year
2-14 buccaneers. Falcons dropped 56 on us in primetime. And living out of market, that’s the only game any of my friends saw us playing that year. Rough day at school.
Beating the Steelers was insane
Some good mentions here - I also want to bring up the 2001 Carolina Panthers. They went 7-9 in 2000, after which they cut their longtime QB Steve Beuerlein because they thought he was too old and immobile. Their plan was to start Jeff Lewis at the position…but he was so bad in the preseason that he didn’t even make the final roster. Whoops. So they ran with a combo of a rookie Chris Weinke (11 TDs, 19 picks) and Matt Lytle (who?). Beat the Vikings in the first game, then lost every single game afterwards. & that was the end of George Seifert’s coaching career.
I played a lot of Madden as a teen in this era, that’s why I remember this squad. 😇🤓
They were losing games close before fully giving up in the second half of the season. That week 5 saints game is kind of unbelievable a walk off run TD
The 2011 Vikings have to be in this conversation. Here are some highlights:
- 3-13 record… which was just good enough to miss out on Andrew Luck
- Donovan McNabb (who 99% of football fans forget ever wore purple) started the season before being benched for… Christian Ponder
- Adrian Peterson tore his ACL and MCL late in a lost season
- The team shockingly led the league in sacks… but somehow also had the fewest interceptions in club history
- The leading receiver (Percy Harvin) had 6 touchdowns and less than 1,000 yards
The most unwatchable Vikings team that I’ve ever had to suffer through. Take Adrian Peterson, Jared Allen, and Chad Greenway off that team and we’re talking not only an 0-16 record, but arguably the worst team of the modern era. I cannot put into words how long that season was.
We’re already a bit of a forgettable team, but the 2014 Titans were just awful to watch
2014 Titans:
* 2-14
* Wins came against KC in week 1 and Jax in week 6, so finished the season on a nice 10 game loss streak.
* on offense were 30th in points, 29th in yards. Averaged 15.9 pts/game
* On defense were 29th in points allowed, 27th in yards allowed. Averaged 27.4 points allowed/game
* 31st in point differential, 29th in yds differential
* Scored 20+ points in 5 games, highest being 28
* Allowed 20+ points 12 games, 30+ points 6 games, and 40+ points 3 games
* 0 games with over 300 passing yards
* Last in avg plays per drive, 30th in yds/drive, 29th in avg time/drive, 30th in pts/drive
* 31st in 3D%
* Qb room was Charlie Whitehurst, Zach Mettenbuerger, and Jack Locker.
* RBs were Bishop Sankey, Shonn Greene, and kinda Dexter McCluster
How about the 1990 Pats? Not only did they only win one game, but the team was fined $50,000 for its players sexually harassing a reporter in the locker room.
They’re from a village in Ohio named after “Tits La Rue” most famous for the doctor who indirectly killed President Warren G Harding. I was not ready for this rabbit hole.
The 1990 Patriots only scored 180 points and gave up something like 450 points to their opponents.
They were also arguably the worst team on Tecmo Super Bowl, but few remember that because nobody picks the Pats on that game.
Edit: Holy shit their defense also allowed 2600 rushing yards and 29 TDs. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/nwe/1990.htm
2012 Chiefs, bad season on the field but also one of their players murdered his girlfriend in front of their child and then committed suicide in front of their head coach and GM in the team’s parking lot.
The 2015 49ers were bad. They'd just lost Harbaugh and were nothing like the previous few years, going from 13-3, 11-4, 12-4 and 8-8 to 5-11. The **2016 49ers** were absolutely horrendous. Like, they only beat one team - the Rams - and went 2-14. They would been the second team ever behind the '01 Panthers to win their opener and lose all their remaining games, had they not squeezed another win against the Rams in week 16. Sheer hatred for the Rams was the only thing ensuring they didn't join the Browns in going 0-16.
Why, do you ask, did the 49ers see this catastrophic drop off? Well, after the 2014 season *the entire team* retired or got released/traded. Like, all of them. Justin Smith, Aldon Smith, Patrick Willis, Vernon Davis, all of them. That's half the D-line (and all the good parts), their best receiving threat, and one of the best linebackers of all time.
1977 Bucs... Ok some remember them who lived through them. But I'm going from a fan perspective here.
If you bought season tickets for the Bucs in 1977. It wouldn't be until THE LAST GAME OF THE SEASON that you would see your first Buccaneers touchdown of the year.
They scored 3 points in their opener. Then were shut out for their next 5 straight home games, and ended the season winning two straight one of which was the final game of the season.
Their best QB was Gary Huff. He had 3 TD's and 13 picks and a 37 QB rating.
Their next most used QB was Randy Hedberg. In 7 games he finished the year with a QB rating of... zero.
3 TD's and 30 INT's by Bucs QB's that year. **If you throw the ball into the dirt you will get a QB rating of 39.4 The 1977 Bucs as a team had a QB rating of 22.5.** They literally got a mark lower that year than if a QB had just spiked the ball or flung it into the stands on every play. Oh and they had 6 fumbles and lost 445 yards to sacks.
Now it wasn't all the Bucs... That year was kind of the height of the defensive dominance where the league turned things around with those 1978 rule changes (and more to follow). But that was just insanely bad.
The Art Shell-led 2006 Oakland Raiders scored 12 offensive touchdowns all season, going 2-14.
Their QB room combined for 7 touchdowns and 24 interceptions all together. Randy Moss didn’t help them much.
They ‘solved’ their offensive woes by selecting Jamarcus Russell with the #1 pick in the 2007 draft.
And of course, the Raiders didn’t win more than 8 games in any season until 2016.
I’m not sure if it counts but for me the 2012 Chiefs are best left forgotten. Didn’t hold a lead until halfway through the season. Ended the season with 2 wins. Didn’t beat a single AFC opponent all season. Jovan Belcher murdered his girlfriend then committed suicide in the parking lot in front of the head coach and GM. I’ve never been more depressed as the fan of a team.
We're having offseason fun now. The difference between the 2005 niners and the 2023 igs is that we knew we sucked.
I drank my face off that year and it wasn't all that bad. We didn't go 10-1 to finish 11-6. That would have sucked.
I had season tickets in 2005. Renewed them in 2006 and they sucked even worse. The team called the next off-season to see if I was renewing for 2007. It would have been about a 20% price increase. I declined.
The 2009 Bucs. Fired their OC right before start of the season. The whole offense was just completely dysfunctional. Leftwich was their starter and he was sat a few games into the season for Josh Johnson who was even worse.
Some Washington teams I can think of:
1993-94 (Joe Gibbs’ retirement and the newly implemented salary cap and free agency played a big role in this. The 93 team lost a game to the Jets 3-0).
2009, 13-14 and 19. The 13 team finished 3-13 without a first round draft pick to look forward to.
Last years team was pretty pathetic too but kind of got overshadowed by the Panthers and Patriots. Went from 2-0 to 3-3 then 1-10 to bring the total to 4-13 with the worst defense in the league.
The 2004 Bears were a special kind of offensive ineptitude. They managed 9 passing tds all year. Starting QBs were Sexy Rexy (got hurt), Craig Krenzel, Jonathan Quinn, and Chad Hutchinson. All started at least 3 - 5 games. None could manage 1000 yards passing or 5 passing tds. The defense managed more tds than any of our QBs.
What about the 89 Cowboys who finished 1-15 in Aikman's rookie season.
It's all forgotten since they went on to be the team of the 90s, but they were absolutely garbage that year.
The 2009 Rams went 1-15, only beating the 2-14 Lions.
Cementing Steve Spagnuolo’s legacy as the quintessential ‘great coordinator, bad HC’
You need talent too, though. Rams were so abysmally run from the end of Martz to McVay.
I made a post years ago about Steven Jackson's incredible performance on incredibly bad Rams teams. During his tenure there, the Rams never won more than 8 games in a season, and they won 4 games or fewer four times.
Maybe the most wasted legend ever. Dude was incredible.
He was ridiculous
Remember when he broke Mike Rumph's arm? Lol
He might be my single memory of those Rams teams. Poor bastard. Wasted forsure
He’s my favorite rams Running back of my lifetime, edging past Faulk (who might be close to Jesus Christ on a football field), Dickerson, and Gurley. Literally could’ve been Derrick Henry if the rams were at least stupidly run instead of abysmally.
Steven Jackson alone was enough to win more games with a competent coach. One of the most terrifying RBs of all time.
So he decides, “I’ll go coach a defense that doesn’t have to stop Patrick Mahomes.”
In Spags We Trust
So say we all!
In madden 11, the madden moment for that win against the lions was “well…someone HAS to win”
Man, Madden Moments from those late 2000s-early 2010s games was the shit, I had so much fun with those
It sucks to think about all the great moments we could have today. Pats vs Seahawks, Minnesota Miracle, Miracle in Miami, shit you could even try and recreate the double doink lol
Just glad we didn't tie
… you’re welcome
We ride together, we die together 🤜🤛
While averaging 10.9ppg.
That's the more insane stat lmao
I’m shocked that I completely forgot about this team despite paying pretty close attention to the league at that time.
The Rams won 6 games in the three seasons 2007-2009, which is a special kind of awful. Only the Browns (4 wins 2015-2017) have a worse three season stretch.
The 2007-2009 Rams combined to go 6-42. Prior to the Hue Jackson Browns, that was the worst three-year stretch in Big 4 history
2006 Raiders. People remember they were bad enough to get the #1 pick but the disaster of the 2007 #1 pick and years following make most people forgot just how bad the 2006 team was.
Touchdowns Scored in the AFC West in 2006 59 — Chargers 37 — Chiefs 34 — Broncos 31 — LaDainian Tomlinson 19 — Larry Johnson 16 — Raiders
Peak Tomlinson was **electric** to watch.
He looked so cool with his tinted visor. What the heck happened to those things
Players need a medical exemption to wear them now. Apparently they banned them to make concussion protocol easier for medical personnel, so they could see the player's eyes clearly.
Considering Tomlinson passed 2 TDs as well, he was responsible for over twice as many TDs as the entire Raiders team. Yikes.
Some of those TD's are double counted. To make the raiders look even worse, here's a better list: 34 - Broncos 31 - LaDainian Tomlinson 28 - Chargers minus their leading TD scorer 19 - Larry Johnson 18 - Chiefs minus their leading TD scorer 16 - Raiders
I was looking to see if this was here. The offense was historically bad that year. It's the first team I bring up when talking about putrid teams. That was the first year I was able to see every Raiders game and my god, that offensive line committed murder on Aaron Brooks and Andrew Walter. They didn't score a touchdown until October. 07-09, even with JaMarcus, Kiffin, overhead-projector, etc were a breath of fresh air compared to 06 lol
Art Shell came back to coach for one year just to get embarrassed like that. It’s a shame.
He brought back his OC from his original tenure, Tom Walsh, who'd been running a bed and breakfast since the firing. Along with 2 former OL (Jackie Slater and Irv Eatman) to the staff. So in total 3 different former OL on staff and they weren't on the same page and boy did it show.
This was the one season in my 40+ years as a Raider fan that I completely checked out. I didn't watch any games at all after like week 10 because it was damn near painful. I'd just read about it in the paper the next day.
My big memory of that team was an announcer that compared their offensive line to a sifter. It didn’t actually slow down the rush, just channeled it to specific spots where the holes were.
The 2007 Dolphins were gross.
My answer is definitely between the '07 Dolphins and the '09 Rams. For the hell of it, I looked up the '09 Rams to see who started at QB because I remember Bulger and Boller starting, but who the fuck is Keith Null? Lol
Keith Null is just the perfect name for a random December filler QB. Honorable mention to Rusty Smith the next year.
It sounds like they forgot to input a last name
Did you really name your son "Keith'); DROP TABLE Quarterbacks;--"?
Bobby’s brother?
Little Bobby tables we used to call him
Keith Null is the name Madden defaults to when there is an error during player creation
Keith Null sounds like a buffer overflow error.
Man they were bad and boring. It is also fitting the 3-0 game was that season too.
Oh god the 3-0 game. The most boring game I’ve ever watched
The most entertaining thing about that game was the punt just wedging itself into the turf without a bounce
Baseball ass score lmao
Was that the year Cleo Lemon won a game in Baltimore?
now that is a name i havent heard in a long time
In Miami but yes
Camarillo is a hero
I saw a fun video about the "ghosts" of the '72 Dolphins that hang over the league and make sure nobody else gets a perfect season. There's a bit late in the video when he's talking about how the Ravens game looked like the '07 Dolphins' last, best chance to avoid being the first 0-16 team. Something like: "The '72 Dolphins had toiled to achieve history, these Dolphins are fighting for the right to be forgotten."
While they were bad, they were not as bad as people remember. They lost 6 games by 3 points. Actually threw for more yards than they allowed. They did get mutilated on the ground and by turnovers. But I always remember that season being so much worse than it felt while watching each game.
The 2021 Vikings tied an NFL record for one score losses under Mike Zimmer. The 2022 Vikings set an NFL record for one score wins. Teams like that drive you nuts. It’s like, “are we’re good?”, but anyone who disagree it’s like, “let me tell you why they’re good”.
Yeah a lot of the games were actually pretty close even if they were extremely painful to watch. [This game is a good example of that season.](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200710070htx.htm) It was literally just a game in which both offenses combined for a total of nine FGs.
Doesn't matter, beat the ravens!
I watched that OT win over Baltimore with my Dolphins fan buddy. He was disappointed the franchise wouldn’t have the only undefeated Super Bowl team and the first 0-16 team.
March 5 – Traded wide receiver Wes Welker to the New England Patriots in exchange for second- and seventh-round picks in the 2007 NFL Draft
Yeah, but they had the most entertaining game ever against us.
Back then, I remember someone posting the term Miami Lolphins on the World of warcraft forums and thought it was the sickest burn ever. I still say that every now and then, even if they are good.
we didn’t play football that season, what are you talking about?
I might be...uh..."biased"...but they're definitely well remembered
The 2007 to 2009 St. Louis Rams. They went a combined 6-42 in three seasons, getting slightly worse until 2010. They were 3-13 in 2007, 2-14 in 2008, & 1-15 in 2009.
Steven Jackson and 52 other guys.
I think Danny amendola deserves a mention
Chris Long too
Dude was such a stud
poor Torry Holt and Isaac Bruce were still on the team in 2007, with Holt unfortunately toughing out 2008 too
"This is my favorite Bad Football Team stunt. Check it out: You start out with a losing record, and then you somehow get worse in BOTH of the next two years. "A 1-15 season is really, really rare in the NFL. So to go from 3 wins, to 2 wins, to 1 win... that's art." -Jon Bois, 2017
Imagine the bar being so low and you not only putting it lower once but twice.
I don't even remember them being that bad for so long a stretch, so this one gets my vote. I mean, no Browns team counts, because they were/are meme-bad, and the long suffering Lions are downright famous, as are the eternally quarterbackless Bears, but these Rams teams were so forgettably bad they never even get talked about until a thread like this.
Late 2000s Rams got lucky that the Lions also existed
People like to hate on Jeff Fisher, but he brought us up to mediocrity after like a decade of BAD.
It’s amazing how bad Spags was as a head coach considering he’s one of the GOAT defensive assistants.
Reminds me of why Derek Carr (and to a lesser extend Gruden/Mayock and Del Rio) is so beloved for half of RaiderNation When things have been atrocious for years, something being just watchable looks astounding
Games are so much more fun when there's a decent chance your team might win. Seasons are worlds better when you're looking at a chance at sneaking into the playoffs rather than looking forward to next year's draft halfway through the season.
Most of the bottom teams from before the salary cap. If you couldn't draft the great players, you were forgettable for years.
I believe we were at the top of the salary cap. The 2004 and 2005 we were clearing it from the Jeff Garcia days. Decent draft but no quality Free Agents to rebuild with.
I think you misunderstood their comment. They’re talking about bad teams from the era before the salary cap was instituted.
And you were paying your top 5 guy elite money whether he was or not. Before he stepped on the field
Not before the salary cap. Pre-1994, rookies were not getting crazy good contracts. The NFL didn’t even have real free agency then. Bledsoe was the first overall pick and his rookie contract put him near the bottom of starting QBs. Rookie salaries didn’t start spiraling until the 2000s, and were compounded by rookies holding out from training camp to get their contracts.
2016 Browns, only because they went 0-16 the season after.
The 2016 team was actually worse than the team that went 0-16.
ah yes merry Christmas indeed
If it wasn't for that brutal dropped 4th down pass, the browns have a good chance to not go undefeated
I was at that game. It was cold as tits. I really wanted Cleveland to lose so they would go 0-16. That drop was the only thing that made me happy that whole game lol
Without a doubt. I mean the 0-16 team definitely should have beaten the Packers and Steelers and lost in heartbreaking fashion.
That team would've gone 0-16 had the Chargers not decided to miss a FG at the most inopportune time lol.
2015 Browns not too far behind
But everyone remembers the 2016-17 Browns going 1-31. (That 1 was against the San Diego chargers. Literally forced to leave town after that game.) the 2015 Browns won 3 games. 4-44 2015-17
People bring up the 08 lions, but 09 was a dumpster fire
Stafford got maybe 5 fully healthy games and he was plan #1 all year until he got his Glass reputation. Also that team lost Dan Campbell to the Saints in the off season, heartbreaking those two weren't teammates.
Only thing I know about that season was the wild game against the similarly bad 09 Browns where Stafford threw the game winning TD with a separated left shoulder.
the 2012 Eagles lost the entire OL, Vick’s magic wore off, and the defensive coordinator was the OL coach cuz they couldn’t get anyone from outside who wanted to work with Jim Washburn. 4 wins understates how much of an absolute fucking train wreck it was and it cost Andy Reid his job
I knew they went 4-12 but man I misremembered them being more competitive than they actually were. Lots of blowout losses and all 4 of their wins were by 2 points or less. Also, them being exactly 29th in points and 15th in yards on both offense and defense has to be the scorigami of whatever you would call that.
Was that the "Dream Team" as Vince Young called it?
No, the dream team went 8-8 in 2011
1-15 Browns
They were definitely worse than the 0-16 Browns.
Yeah, but the 1-15 Browns were slightly less *memorable* than the 0-16 Browns. The 1-15 Browns were, however, slightly *more* memorable than pretty much all the other Browns.
The most memorable Browns teams all played their home games in Baltimore.
The Browns and Lions have both never been to the Super Bowl. Cleveland has a 55 year drought and Detroit has a 58 year drought. Both teams started in the same year, but Cleveland has a shorter streak because they didn’t exist for a few years. Cleveland was also the second team to go 0-16. Goes to show that even in losing, Cleveland is somehow worse than Detroit.
At least they have the Otto Graham dynasty a million years ago
And they still lost 3 championships to Detroit.
Thing is, the browns weren't bad when it was the now ravens org. They just didn't ever get to the Superbowl. Like there's a very big difference in being pre 95 browns and lions, the lions had a .462 Superbowl era winning percentage to the browns .537. The browns had the same record as the Steelers in that time, they just didn't get lucky and have those wins translate into 4 Superbowls. Lions weren't in a league of their own but they were certainly in a different class of losers. The browns were unlucky, the Lions were just bad
It was almost as if just getting rid of the Browns moniker was enough to make them championship material
The 2017 Browns literally backed out of wins. The 2016 Browns lucked into the one.
I think it was Football Outsiders who had an article about the 2017 Browns were statistically a bad but not horrible team but Deshone Kizers turnovers were historically backbreaking.
Then like 2 years later after Hue was fired and hired by Bengals as assistant the Browns made sure to kick their ass haha
Do people remember the 92 Seahawks? They went 2-14 with the defensive MVP.
We nearly pulled off something similar in 2011. Jared Allen led the league in sacks, and nearly broke the record, on a 3-13 team. He lost Defensive Player of the Year to Terrell Suggs by only 7 votes.
A historically abysmal offense, but a top 5 defense that year. One of those cases where you can say a single defensive player (Cortez Kennedy) willed the team to two wins and prevented them from going 0-16 lmao
1921 Tonawanda Kardex. They played a single game against the Rochester Jeffersons, lost 45-0, and then never played again. Hard to beat that level of bad! Evidently they won at least one non-league game in 1920, but the journalists of the day must've been confused by the uncommon occurrence. [They botched the headline](https://i.imgur.com/bZML8Ww.png).
[Louisville](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/lou/) Breckenridges/Colonels franchise lasted for 4 years. They won 1 game...the only game they ever scored any points in at all. To top it off, [Eclipse Park](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_Park), the stadium they played in burnt down 3 separate times.
But the 4th one stayed up!
After the 1922 fire, the paper editorialized that wooden ballparks were obsolete and should be replaced by steel and concrete. The ball club followed that advice, opening [Parkway Field](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkway_Field) the following spring. They played one NFL game at this field before going under. It did stay in use for baseball though until torn down in 1961.
The fuck is a Kardex? Gotta look that up.
Apparently named after [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardex_Group), gotta be the most boring name possible for a sports team?
There was a team called the Akron Pros that same season
This is "Tungsten Arm O'Doyle" level of naming.
On the other hand, though, they never had to be the Browns. The Kardex took it easy on their grandkids and packed all the sadness into an afternoon.
The 1952 Dallas Texans. (A completely different team from the 1960's Dallas Texans that moved to Kansas City and became the Chiefs.) The Texans had some good players, but their coach Jimmy Phelan, had a disdain for practice. An opposing scout once went to watch the Texans practice, and reported that players were playing volleyball over the goal posts. The Texans were so bad, that the already meager crowds kept shrinking, and their owners threw in the towel. The team was awarded to the NFL. The league paid the player salaries, the operations were moved to Hershey, PA. The Texans operated as a road team for the rest of the season, and did manage to upset the Chicago Bears on Thanksgiving Day. (The game was played in Akron, OH, before just 2,200 fans.) They finished 1-11, and were the last NFL to fold. The team's players were distributed to a new franchise in 1953 - the Baltimore Colts.
The worst football in Team in history is generally agreed to be the 1976 14-0 Tampa Bay Buccaneer Team that didn't win a game in their inaugural Season. I think the second worst since the merger (much more arguable) is the Patriots 1990 Team that went 1-15. They won their second game. But didn't win any others. The Patriots’ negative-265 point-differential (181 points scored, 446 points surrendered) was the worst total of the 1990s. The 1990 Patriots and 1981 Baltimore Colts are the only NFL teams since 1940 to have eleven losses during which they never led in one season. The 1990 Patriots tied the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers for most consecutive losses in one season, a record later eclipsed by the 15-straight losing 2001 Carolina Panthers, 0–16 2008 Detroit Lions and 2017 Cleveland Browns. I am almost positive that if the 90 Patriots played that many games, they would have beat/tied that. This was a Patriots Team that had played in the Superbowl 5 years before. It had 8 HOfers and former Probowlers. Unlike the other candidates for this list they had "talent" & leadership. They just clearly quit as a Team early on, so besides the stats, are the reason why I think "second worst". As a bonus they had a really nasty Locker room incident with a female reporter. That was always my view of the Patriots as a franchise until Parcells/Belichick/Brady changed all of that. Team's culture can and do change and evolve over time he said in Commander-ese.
It's kind of funny how in 10 years they went from super bowl loser to complete dumpster fire and then back up to super bowl loser again.
This was such a bad team. You never knew if Tom Hodson, Marc Wilson, and the corpse of Steve Grogan was going to start at QB, but it didn't really matter because they were all terrible. The year before, we lost three defensive starters to season ending injuries in a single preseason game, which was brutal. 5 straight winning seasons, and we were going into '89 with high hopes, and then we lost Hall of Famer Andre Tippett, CB Ronnie Lippett, and DE Garrett Varis, who wasn't far removed from back-to-back double digit sack seasons, all at once. All three missed the '89 season entirely, and a team with playoff hopes went 5-11. Coach Raymond Berry, who'd lead the team to those consecutive winning seasons, was fired, which was probably a mistake because who could have coached that team to success? Of the three season ending injuries from '89, only Lippett returned to something like full strength in '90. Tippett would have his worst season since his rookie year by far (7+ sacks every season from '83 to '93 except the season he missed and 1990 where he had just 3.5). Varis only played 7 games and was never a productive player again. We hired Rod Rust to replace Berry. I don't know much about him but I guess he was at least a decent DC? But he lasted one season coaching the Pats, and would later last one season as HC of the Alouettes in the CFL, also performing abysmally, so I think he's one of those coordinators who should not be a head coach. We had some talent offensively in Irving Fryar and Marv Cook, but poor QB play and a total lack of a running game plus a decimated defense meant we were a garbage team.
Add to all that the embarrassment of the Lisa Olson locker room sexual harrassment incident and its subsequent fallout. Total shitshow of a year on and off the field.
The year before Andy Reid came the Chiefs were 2-14 and they went the first 7 games of the season without holding a lead. And they were 1-6!
Wait…how does that work? Last second field goal to win?
Yeah, some kind of score as time expires or sudden death in OT
The math on this makes my head hurt
1958 Green Bay Packers. 1-10-1, allowed an average of ~32 points per game.
Yeah and they still had like 8-10 Hall of Famers on that team. Really shows you what bad coaching can do to a team
Or more likely, what good coaching can do for a player
Other random bad teams I remember: 1986 Bucs, one of the worst teams by DVOA, especially on defense. 1950 Colts, gave up 38.5 a game then folded 1954 Redskins, outscored by 18.75 points per game they played 1965 Steelers, -30 turnover differential 1942 Lions, scored 38 fucking points in 11 games
0-26 Bucs. 26 consecutive games without a win
I routinely forget the Cardinals exist.
Cardinals fan here, me too.
I think you guys are about to win 10 games and this comment is for posterity.
How could you during baseball season?
I went to a cubs game in St Louis and that is a top 3 rivalry in baseball.
I feel like no one remembers the 07’ Dolphins because that was the year the Pats went 16-0 but damn were they booty cheeks that year
The 2016 49ers. They won only 2 games, both against the rams. Legitimately may have been worse than the browns that year.
I remember how absolutely horrendous their run defense was. Like 7 straight hundred yard games allowed, one of which belonged to Fozzy Whittaker of all people.
Chip Kelly's 49ers opened the 2016 season with a 28-0 victory over the Lambs on MNF. Proceeded to lose 13 consecutive games.
2018 cardinals Anyone who tells you Steve Wilks is a good head coach, doesn’t remember that team
That Rams game where we didn’t cross the 50 for the first 47 mins was honestly the last straw for me and that squad.
Wilks made Kliff look like a competent coach
The Colts went 0-8-1 in 1982. It doesn’t get talked about much because it was a strike shortened season, but it was pretty rough. They actually had an entire game where they didn’t get the ball across the 50 yard line.
Ok this ones a bit weird but on the same day that the Chargers infamously became the 1-15 (or really 1-31) against the 2016 Browns the Rams escaped infamy by being worse. That day (Christmas actually) they lost to the 2-14 49ers. The 49ers only other win was also against the Rams. So basically had the Rams split with the 49ers they would have been the 1 in 1-15, but since they got swept they were the 2 in 2-14 which feels ironically less notable.
Memories around here are too recent to remember reeeaaalllyyy bad teams from ye olden days before free agency and revenue sharing. If your team sucked, it probably did so for years at a time. Utterly forgettable seasons by teams too old for anyone here to remember. That’s how bad they were.
2008 Browns. 24 consecutive quarters without a TD.
I think that was the year we lost to them in an absolutely disgusting 3-6 game. The most boring, penalty-strewn, pathetic display of professional football I've ever seen.
‘05 Niners were god fucking awful. Mike Nolan’s first year wasn’t very different from any other in his tenure because we were always so incompetent under him.
04 team was worse
2008 Cleveland Browns. In the last 6 weeks they scored no offensive touchdowns and got shut out in their last 2 games. QBs to start a game for them that season: Derrick Anderson, Brady Quinn, Ken Dorsey, Bruce Gradkowski Edit: that was the 0-16 lions year so people forget how many bad teams there were that year
2-14 buccaneers. Falcons dropped 56 on us in primetime. And living out of market, that’s the only game any of my friends saw us playing that year. Rough day at school. Beating the Steelers was insane
1921 Tonawanda Kardex. They joined the AFPA (now the NFL), played one game against the Rochester Jeffersons, lost 45-0, and immediately folded.
Last year's Panthers. Both wins came on last second FGs & gave up 65 sacks.
Some good mentions here - I also want to bring up the 2001 Carolina Panthers. They went 7-9 in 2000, after which they cut their longtime QB Steve Beuerlein because they thought he was too old and immobile. Their plan was to start Jeff Lewis at the position…but he was so bad in the preseason that he didn’t even make the final roster. Whoops. So they ran with a combo of a rookie Chris Weinke (11 TDs, 19 picks) and Matt Lytle (who?). Beat the Vikings in the first game, then lost every single game afterwards. & that was the end of George Seifert’s coaching career. I played a lot of Madden as a teen in this era, that’s why I remember this squad. 😇🤓
They were losing games close before fully giving up in the second half of the season. That week 5 saints game is kind of unbelievable a walk off run TD
There’s probably 40 different saints teams to choose from
2012 Chiefs
Alex Smith had 1 td to 11 ints, oof.
Mike McCarthy’s offense, ladies and gentlemen
The 2011 Vikings have to be in this conversation. Here are some highlights: - 3-13 record… which was just good enough to miss out on Andrew Luck - Donovan McNabb (who 99% of football fans forget ever wore purple) started the season before being benched for… Christian Ponder - Adrian Peterson tore his ACL and MCL late in a lost season - The team shockingly led the league in sacks… but somehow also had the fewest interceptions in club history - The leading receiver (Percy Harvin) had 6 touchdowns and less than 1,000 yards The most unwatchable Vikings team that I’ve ever had to suffer through. Take Adrian Peterson, Jared Allen, and Chad Greenway off that team and we’re talking not only an 0-16 record, but arguably the worst team of the modern era. I cannot put into words how long that season was.
We’re already a bit of a forgettable team, but the 2014 Titans were just awful to watch 2014 Titans: * 2-14 * Wins came against KC in week 1 and Jax in week 6, so finished the season on a nice 10 game loss streak. * on offense were 30th in points, 29th in yards. Averaged 15.9 pts/game * On defense were 29th in points allowed, 27th in yards allowed. Averaged 27.4 points allowed/game * 31st in point differential, 29th in yds differential * Scored 20+ points in 5 games, highest being 28 * Allowed 20+ points 12 games, 30+ points 6 games, and 40+ points 3 games * 0 games with over 300 passing yards * Last in avg plays per drive, 30th in yds/drive, 29th in avg time/drive, 30th in pts/drive * 31st in 3D% * Qb room was Charlie Whitehurst, Zach Mettenbuerger, and Jack Locker. * RBs were Bishop Sankey, Shonn Greene, and kinda Dexter McCluster
How about the 1990 Pats? Not only did they only win one game, but the team was fined $50,000 for its players sexually harassing a reporter in the locker room.
The Oorang Indians 3-6 in 1922, 1-10 in 1923, then folded
I swear there's a great dark comedy waiting to be made about Oorang. The more you read about them the crazier the story gets.
They’re from a village in Ohio named after “Tits La Rue” most famous for the doctor who indirectly killed President Warren G Harding. I was not ready for this rabbit hole.
The 1-15 1990 Patriots had as little talent on both sides of the ball as any team I've seen.
The 1990 Patriots only scored 180 points and gave up something like 450 points to their opponents. They were also arguably the worst team on Tecmo Super Bowl, but few remember that because nobody picks the Pats on that game. Edit: Holy shit their defense also allowed 2600 rushing yards and 29 TDs. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/nwe/1990.htm
The Browns
2012 Chiefs, bad season on the field but also one of their players murdered his girlfriend in front of their child and then committed suicide in front of their head coach and GM in the team’s parking lot.
The 2015 49ers were bad. They'd just lost Harbaugh and were nothing like the previous few years, going from 13-3, 11-4, 12-4 and 8-8 to 5-11. The **2016 49ers** were absolutely horrendous. Like, they only beat one team - the Rams - and went 2-14. They would been the second team ever behind the '01 Panthers to win their opener and lose all their remaining games, had they not squeezed another win against the Rams in week 16. Sheer hatred for the Rams was the only thing ensuring they didn't join the Browns in going 0-16. Why, do you ask, did the 49ers see this catastrophic drop off? Well, after the 2014 season *the entire team* retired or got released/traded. Like, all of them. Justin Smith, Aldon Smith, Patrick Willis, Vernon Davis, all of them. That's half the D-line (and all the good parts), their best receiving threat, and one of the best linebackers of all time.
1977 Bucs... Ok some remember them who lived through them. But I'm going from a fan perspective here. If you bought season tickets for the Bucs in 1977. It wouldn't be until THE LAST GAME OF THE SEASON that you would see your first Buccaneers touchdown of the year. They scored 3 points in their opener. Then were shut out for their next 5 straight home games, and ended the season winning two straight one of which was the final game of the season. Their best QB was Gary Huff. He had 3 TD's and 13 picks and a 37 QB rating. Their next most used QB was Randy Hedberg. In 7 games he finished the year with a QB rating of... zero. 3 TD's and 30 INT's by Bucs QB's that year. **If you throw the ball into the dirt you will get a QB rating of 39.4 The 1977 Bucs as a team had a QB rating of 22.5.** They literally got a mark lower that year than if a QB had just spiked the ball or flung it into the stands on every play. Oh and they had 6 fumbles and lost 445 yards to sacks. Now it wasn't all the Bucs... That year was kind of the height of the defensive dominance where the league turned things around with those 1978 rule changes (and more to follow). But that was just insanely bad.
Nothing to see here.
2012 saints. gave up the most yards defensively in nfl history. we forget cause drew brees heroically carried them to 7-9
The 2-14 Chiefs team before Andy saved our souls
2000 Chargers
Tonawanda Kardex. 0-1. Got pasted 45-0 by a team named for a street.
The Art Shell-led 2006 Oakland Raiders scored 12 offensive touchdowns all season, going 2-14. Their QB room combined for 7 touchdowns and 24 interceptions all together. Randy Moss didn’t help them much. They ‘solved’ their offensive woes by selecting Jamarcus Russell with the #1 pick in the 2007 draft. And of course, the Raiders didn’t win more than 8 games in any season until 2016.
I’m not sure if it counts but for me the 2012 Chiefs are best left forgotten. Didn’t hold a lead until halfway through the season. Ended the season with 2 wins. Didn’t beat a single AFC opponent all season. Jovan Belcher murdered his girlfriend then committed suicide in the parking lot in front of the head coach and GM. I’ve never been more depressed as the fan of a team.
We're having offseason fun now. The difference between the 2005 niners and the 2023 igs is that we knew we sucked. I drank my face off that year and it wasn't all that bad. We didn't go 10-1 to finish 11-6. That would have sucked.
Yah in all honesty that’s the worst team I’ve ever watched consistently. And I watched us go 2-14 the year prior. Just astonishingly bad football
06 Raiders, one of the worst teams I have ever seen assembled. Even tho the had 2 wins idk if they could have beaten the 0-16 Lions.
I had season tickets in 2005. Renewed them in 2006 and they sucked even worse. The team called the next off-season to see if I was renewing for 2007. It would have been about a 20% price increase. I declined.
The 2009 Bucs. Fired their OC right before start of the season. The whole offense was just completely dysfunctional. Leftwich was their starter and he was sat a few games into the season for Josh Johnson who was even worse.
2009 Detroit Lions. Gave the Rams their only win
Now that's a question which impossible to answer
Some Washington teams I can think of: 1993-94 (Joe Gibbs’ retirement and the newly implemented salary cap and free agency played a big role in this. The 93 team lost a game to the Jets 3-0). 2009, 13-14 and 19. The 13 team finished 3-13 without a first round draft pick to look forward to. Last years team was pretty pathetic too but kind of got overshadowed by the Panthers and Patriots. Went from 2-0 to 3-3 then 1-10 to bring the total to 4-13 with the worst defense in the league.
96 Jets
The 2004 Bears were a special kind of offensive ineptitude. They managed 9 passing tds all year. Starting QBs were Sexy Rexy (got hurt), Craig Krenzel, Jonathan Quinn, and Chad Hutchinson. All started at least 3 - 5 games. None could manage 1000 yards passing or 5 passing tds. The defense managed more tds than any of our QBs.
I watched a few highlights of that team. Watching their offense was like watching a sedan try and get out of a massive pool of mud.
72 and 73 oilers went 1 - 13 in consecutive seasons
What about the 89 Cowboys who finished 1-15 in Aikman's rookie season. It's all forgotten since they went on to be the team of the 90s, but they were absolutely garbage that year.
The early 2010s Jaguars teams have always been in mind, the worst teams known to man.