The 2025 NFL Worry-meter - every 0-3 team analysed

Three weeks into the new NFL season and the panic buttons are already being polished in front offices from New Jersey to Nashville.

The league is designed to drag everyone back to the middle eventually, but for six franchises the 2025 campaign has started not with promise but with pratfalls, bruised egos and the sort of performances that make talk-radio switchboards light up before the leaves have even started to turn.

Every September there are teams whose stuttering starts can be dismissed as blips, but there are also those whose early struggles are merely confirmation of deeper rot. Separating the two is half the fun and all of the frustration.

This is the worry-meter, where we weigh up how bad the panic should be at each 0-3 team to determine whether we’re dealing with temporary turbulence or full-blown existential dread.

New York Giants

It seems any pre-season optimism surrounding the Giants was misplaced. Despite the addition of No.3 overall pick Adbul Carter to an already stocked pass-rush unit, Big Blue are once again falling short.

After a Week 3 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs at MetLife saw them muster just nine points on offense, reports claim there will be a change under centre when they face the surging LA Chargers on Sunday – out goes the veteran Russell Wilson, in comes first-round rookie Jaxson Dart.

New York Jets

The Giants aren’t the only team rotting in the Big Apple. The Jets – now under the guidance of new head coach Aaron Glenn – are also winless after three games.

The Jets can count themselves a little unfortunate to be in their currently predicament, however. They narrowly lost a barnstorming opening game to the Pittsburgh Steelers in which new franchise quarterback Justin Fields produced arguably the best performance of his career to date. And then the next week, Fields was carted off injured.

Once Fields is back in action, a better assessment of the Jets’ plight can be drawn.

Miami Dolphins

Only Cincinnati’s back-up quarterback Jake Browning (five) has thrown more interceptions than Tua Tagovailoa (four) so far this season. After an injury-hit 2024 season, the Dolphins’ highly paid signal caller has looked lost at times in defeats to the Indianapolis Colts, New England Patriots and Buffalo Bills.

Miami’s Mike McDaniel was among the favourites to be the first head coach fired this season and he’ll need to mastermind a swift turnaround if he’s to prove such prophecies wrong.

Tennessee Titans

It should come as little surprise that the team who finished with the NFL’s worst record last season have started the current campaign in similar style. Last year’s underperformance earned the Titans the No.1 overall draft pick, which they used to acquire quarterback Cam Ward.

The former Miami Hurricane has flashed signs of his high potential already but his rawness is evidenced by the fact he has the lowest completion percentage (54.4%) and passing success rate (35.1%) in the league through three games. It’s shaping up to being another long season in Tennessee.

New Orleans Saints

The Saints were expected to be among the pack leaders to land the top pick in next year’s draft, and the early weeks of the season have done little to dissuade observers of that notion.

Second-year quarterback Spencer Rattler beat out second-round rookie Tyler Shough to earn starting duties in New Orleans. But after defeats to the Cardinals, 49ers and Seahawks, all signs point toward new head coach Kellen Moore looking for a long-term solution under centre with another high draft pick in 2026.

Houston Texans

Perhaps the most shocking team to still be winless at this juncture, the Texans have been atrocious on offense, ranking dead last for total points (38), fourth from bottom in total yards (802) and have scored just two offensive touchdowns to date.

Quarterback CJ Stroud is handicapped by a porous offensive line and a near-absent run game, but even accepting his circumstances the 2023 Offensive Rookie of the Year has fallen short of expectations, with more interceptions (three) than touchdowns (two).

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