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Are the 2019 Miami Dolphins the NFL's Worst Team Ever?

In what might have been the worst season in NFL history, the expansion 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers were outscored by a modern-day record 20.5 points per game in a winless campaign.

A quarter of the way through the 2019 season, the winless Miami Dolphins have been outscored by an average of 34.3 points per game. No other team since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger has been outscored by an average of more than 27.5 points this late into a season.

The Dolphins are the first team to lose each of their first four games by 20 or more points (only 15 other teams have done that on three occasions in their first four outings), and they're the only team to allow more than 40 points per game a full month into a season.