So let’s check in on those seven underachievers and try to figure out which teams will be all right, and which ones should start smashing the panic button. And that doesn’t include Washington or Chicago. There are currently seven teams with losing records that were given at least a 40 percent chance to make the playoffs by Football Outsiders before the season. There’s no need to be concerned in Kansas City-not yet at least-but the same cannot be said for a handful of other teams that entered the 2021 season with playoff aspirations. With the 1-1 Cowboys and Eagles set to square off on Monday night, we are pretty much guaranteed to go into the final week of September with 16 teams sporting losing records-a group that, after a home loss to the Chargers on Sunday, even includes the all-powerful Chiefs. Not in the NFL, where the sample sizes are impossibly small and volatility rules.
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