Has the NFL ever had this many bad teams?
Entering Week 6, four teams are 0-5 — more than any other year this decade — and six teams have only one win. And this excludes the Redskins, who have managed only two ugly victories despite being the first team in NFL history to open the season against six winless teams.
So over one-third of the NFL is awful. But who is the worst?
5. Detroit Lions (1-4) » They’ve improved from the worst team in NFL history to just this season’s worst defense. Allowing 32.4 points per game puts a lot of pressure on a rookie quarterback. At least their star receiver, Calvin “Megatron” Johnson, has the sweetest nickname in football.
4. Cleveland Browns (1-4) » It took a stellar performance from their newly-named starting quarterback Derek Anderson to get their first win last week. Anderson went 2-for-17 in the victory over the Bills — the second-worst completion percentage by a winning quarterback (min. 15 attempts) since the NFL-AFL merger.
3. Tampa Bay Bucs (0-5) » They should wear throwback jerseys the entire year because they are playing like the winless 1976 Bucs. They do nothing well and are in the bottom third of the NFL in every major offensive and defensive category.
2. Oakland Raiders (1-5) » What does JaMarcus Russell have to do to lose his starting quarterback job? His 42.1 completion percentage is the worst since the Lions’ Rusty Hilger in 1988. Giants linebacker Antonio Pierce said it best: “We’re playing that game the other day and, honestly, it felt like a scrimmage, like a practice.”
1. St. Louis Rams (0-5) » Rush Limbaugh was dropped in his bid to buy this futile franchise due partly to players’ unwillingness to play for him. If the Rams stopped playing for Rush, how would that change things? The Rams have been outscored 146-34. They don’t even average seven points a game.
