{"id":904922,"date":"2026-09-25T11:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/904922\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:38:15","slug":"buying-and-selling-playoff-chances-of-the-nfls-2-0-and-0-2-teams-entering-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/904922\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying and Selling Playoff Chances of the NFL&#8217;s 2-0 and 0-2 Teams Entering Week 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">After two games, half the NFL is either in the penthouse or the outhouse. Rolling and undefeated or reeling and winless.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Now, a 2-0 start doesn&#8217;t guarantee anything\u2014since the postseason expanded to 14 teams in 2020, one in four teams that start the season 2-0 miss the playoffs altogether. Conversely, an 0-2 start isn&#8217;t the kiss of death. In each of the past two seasons, three teams that started the season 0-2 made the playoffs. Three teams that have started the season with back-to-back losses won the Super Bowl\u2014the 1993 Cowboys, 2001 Patriots and 2007 Giants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">In other words, at least one of this year&#8217;s hot starters will probably falter and wind up watching the playoffs from home. And there&#8217;s a real chance that one of those slow starters will shake it off and get into the postseason tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Here&#8217;s a look at the chances each actually happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After two games, half the NFL is either in the penthouse or the outhouse. Rolling and undefeated or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-904922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}