Not only did the Buffalo Bills (1-2) pull off this season’s biggest upset when they traveled to the reigning NFC North champion Minnesota Vikings and won, 27-6 on Sunday, the Bills also avoided dropping their first three games, a fate that normally guarantees a non-playoff season.
Since the NFL expanded to 32 teams and instituted the current playoff format in 2002, only 11 percent of teams that started the season 0-2 went on to make the playoffs. If you expand that to an 0-3 start? The odds get worse. Much worse.
Had Buffalo—which entered as a 16.