Assessing the panic level for NFL's 0-2 teams

We are two weeks into the 2025 NFL season and there are still 10 teams across the league without a win. Let's take a minute to assess the panic level of each of them.

No panic because we expected you to be bad

New Orleans Saints: The Saints are in salary-cap hell, have no proven quarterback and has what might be the worst roster in the NFL. The only expectation anybody had for this team this season was for them to lose, a lot. 

Carolina Panthers: Maybe there was some hope that the Panthers could start showing some improvement this season — and they still could — but just like the Saints, this was never going to be a competitive team. The best thing to hope for here is quarterback Bryce Young showing some progress. It has been a mixed bag so far. 

Cleveland Browns: Their quarterback options are a 40-year-old Joe Flacco and two mid-round draft pick rookies. They have no big-play threats on offense and the entire roster revolves around how many games Myles Garrett can win on his own. He might win a few, but it won't be enough to compete. 

Tennessee Titans: They might have their long-term quarterback in Cam Ward, but it's really hard to go from the NFL's worst team to a contending team in one year, especially with a rookie quarterback, no matter how talented they might be. 

Limited panic because you can still turn this around

Kansas City Chiefs: There is clearly something off with the Chiefs so far, and there are legitimate concerns on the offensive line and on the defense. The reasons for optimism are they have their top two wide receivers (Xavier Worthy and Rashee Rice) coming back and they still have Patrick Mahomes. They can fix this. 

Houston Texans: The Texans offense looks broken right now, and the offensive line remains a huge problem that is slowing quarterback C.J. Stroud's growth. There is still a lot of talent here, but the biggest positive for them is the AFC South remains an extremely winnable division. 

Time to push the panic button

Miami Dolphins: Everything here is bad. The defense has literally not been able to stop anybody for two weeks, head coach Mike McDaniel seems to have no answers for anything and their biggest playmaker (wide receiver Tyreek Hill) is rapidly becoming a headache and could be traded at any time. McDaniel might be one of the favorites for the first head coach fired this year.

New York Jets: Justin Fields looked great in one game and awful in another game. The Jets lost both of them anyway and seem to have all of the same negative vibes under first-year head coach Aaron Glenn that they have always had. Where is the improvement going to come from here?

New York Giants: If McDaniel is not the first head coach fired, the Giants' Brian Daboll will probably be the one. Not even a career game from Russell Wilson, against one of the NFL's worst defenses (Dallas) was enough to get them a win. Daboll has been here long enough that this team should be better than this. New York football fans are going through it. 

Chicago Bears: The first two weeks of the Ben Johnson era look exactly the same as every other past Bears head coach: spotty and inconsistent quarterback play and just bad football across the board. Caleb Williams' lack of progress has to be a major red flag so far.