There's still a lot of football to play, but there's some teams this year that are on an early pace to take their place with some of the worst teams in history.
There's a lot of different ways to measure how good or bad a team is. If you take a look at net points per season (total points scored minus total points allowed) averaged over number of games played, you get the following table:
| Rank | Net points per game | Year | Team |
| 1 | -26.00 | 2008 | St. Louis Rams |
| 2 | -20.50 | 1976 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 3 | -18.14 | 1972 | New England Patriots |
| 4 | -18.00 | 2008 | Detroit Lions |
| 5 | -17.71 | 1973 | Houston Oilers |
| 26 | -14.33 | 2008 | Houston Texans |
As I said, there's a lot of football to play. Even though the Rams have dug themselves a very deep hole, all they have to do is lose by 18 or fewer points per game the rest of the season. And technically, they're already one down on that task, as they "only" lost by 17 points to the Bills last week.
Just for fun, here's the other end of this table (I should add, for the sake of clarity, that this only includes the regular season, and not playoff games):
| Rank | Net points per game | Year | Team | Season Result |
| 1348 | 16.25 | 1998 | Minnesota Vikings | Lost NFC Championship Game (Falcons) |
| 1349 | 16.31 | 1991 | Washington Redskins | Won Super Bowl XXVI (Bills) |
| 1350 | 16.79 | 1967 | Oakland Raiders | Lost Super Bowl II (Packers) |
| 1351 | 17.50 | 1968 | Dallas Cowboys | Lost Divisional game (Browns) |
| 1352 | 17.57 | 1969 | Minnesota Vikings | Lost Super Bowl IV (Chiefs) |
| 1353 | 17.75 | 1999 | St Louis Rams | Won Super Bowl XXXIV (Titans) |
| 1354 | 18.43 | 1968 | Baltimore Colts | Lost Super Bowl III (Jets) |
| 1355 | 19.07 | 1962 | Green
Bay Packers | Won NFC Championship (Giants) |
| 1356 | 19.36 | 1961 | Houston Oilers | Won AFC Championship (Chargers) |
| 1357 | 19.69 | 2007 | New
England Patriots | Lost Super Bowl XLII (Giants) |
That's a lot of great seasons ending on a sour note. Over-confidence, maybe?
