A record-tying 9 NFL teams have lost at least 6 games in the 1st 8 weeks

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The NFL has been connected a title to nan bottommost this season.

A record-tying 9 teams person already mislaid astatine slightest six games successful nan first 8 weeks of nan play arsenic galore instrumentality bases person already turned their attraction from playoff races to draught prospects and positioning.

The only different play erstwhile 9 teams mislaid astatine slightest six times successful nan first 8 weeks came successful 2000.

Miami tin subordinate that group pinch a nonaccomplishment connected Sunday successful Buffalo aft having an early bye successful Week 6, which would necktie nan 2000 play pinch 10 teams starting 2-6 aliases worse.

The AFC East has 3 of nan bottommost dwellers pinch nan New York Jets and New England Patriots astatine 2-6 and nan Dolphins astatine 2-5. That has allowed nan Bills (6-2) to go nan eighth squad since nan 2002 realignment to person astatine slightest 4 much wins than each different squad successful nan section aftern nan first 8 weeks.

There are 2 different divisions pinch 2 teams pinch astatine slightest six losses pinch Jacksonville (2-6) and Tennessee (1-6) astatine nan bottommost of nan AFC South, and New Orleans (2-6) and Carolina (1-7) astatine nan bottommost of nan NFC South.

The Saints are location contempt winning their first 2 games of nan season, becoming nan ninth squad successful NFL history to pursuing up a 2-0 commencement pinch astatine slightest six consecutive losses.

The different struggling teams are Cleveland (2-6), Las Vegas (2-6) and nan New York Giants (2-6).

The Detroit Lions blowing retired nan hapless Tennessee Titans was hardly a large surprise.

How it happened was highly unusual.

The Lions beat nan Titans 52-14 connected Sunday contempt being held to 225 yards of full discourtesy and 61 nett yards passing. That's nan fewest yards of discourtesy for immoderate squad that scored astatine slightest 50 points successful a crippled since astatine slightest 1948 and nan fewest nett passing yards for a squad successful a 50-point outburst since nan New York Giants had 51 successful a 55-20 triumph complete nan Baltimore Colts connected Nov. 19, 1950.

Detroit scored connected a 90-yard punt return by Kalif Raymond and had 5 of their six TD drives connected discourtesy commencement wrong nan Tennessee 30 pursuing 3 turnovers, different agelong punt return by Raymond and a 72-yard kickoff return by Khalil Dorsey.

Jared Goff had 3 TD passes connected his 15 attempts that went for 85 yards (four sacks lowered Detroit's nett yards passing total). It was nan fewest yards passing a three-TD crippled since New England's Steve Grogan did it pinch 83 yards against nan Jets successful Week 11 of nan 1976 season.

For nan game, nan Titans outgained nan Lions by 191 yards — nan largest yardage advantage for a squad that mislaid by astatine slightest 26 points since astatine slightest 1948.

Kirk Cousins must beryllium sad to spot nan Tampa Bay Buccaneers disconnected nan schedule.

Cousins picked isolated nan Bucs for a 2nd clip this play successful a 31-26 triumph connected Sunday that gave nan Atlanta Falcons a bid sweep.

Cousins followed his 509-yard, four-touchdown performance successful an overtime triumph astatine location successful Week 5 by throwing for 276 yards and 4 TDs successful nan rematch connected Sunday.

Cousins became nan 4th subordinate connected grounds to propulsion for astatine slightest 750 yards pinch astatine slightest 8 TD passes against 1 force successful a season, joining Hall of Famers Joe Montana, Dan Marino and Y.A. Tittle.

Montana did it successful 1990 for San Francisco against Atlanta pinch 874 yards and 8 TDs, 2 years aft Marino had 874 yards passing and 8 TDs for Miami against nan Jets.

Tittle had his outburst successful 1962 erstwhile he had 761 yards and 10 TDs for nan New York Giants against Washington.

The Indianapolis Colts are putting a halt to nan all-or-nothing research pinch Anthony Richardson.

The Colts benched nan No. 4 wide pick from nan 2023 draft, according to 2 group pinch knowledge of nan determination who said to The Associated Press connected information of anonymity Tuesday because nan squad had not announced nan change.

The move came aft Richardson went 2 for 15 successful nan first half past week against Houston. Richardson vanished nan game 10 for 32, dropping his completion percent this play to 44.4%.

Only 1 subordinate has posted a little people for an full play successful nan past 20 years pinch astatine slightest 100 attempts pinch Josh Freeman completing 42.9% of his passes successful 2013 pinch Tampa Bay and Minnesota.

But Richardson was capable to present large plays arsenic he is tied for nan convention lead pinch 4 walk plays that gained astatine slightest 50 yards, pinch 7 completions thrown astatine slightest 25 yards downfield.

That has contributed to a 16.2 mean yards per completion that would rank 2nd highest of immoderate subordinate since 1990 pinch astatine slightest 100 attempts successful a season, down only Chris Chandler's 16.6 successful 1998.

Converting 2-point conversions has ne'er been harder successful nan NFL than it has truthful acold this season.

Teams are converting a record-low 31% of their tries for 2 — a precipitous driblet from nan 55% complaint past season. This play is connected gait to beryllium nan first since 1999 that nan 2-point conversion complaint drops beneath 40%.

For nan past 20 seasons, nan conversion complaint was astatine 48.3% — making it fundamentally a coin-flip determination astir whether going for 2 will work.

The complaint this twelvemonth is moreover little if it’s constricted to plays that commencement astatine nan emblematic spot of nan 2-yard statement arsenic opposed to pursuing penalties erstwhile nan statement of scrimmage has moved up to nan 1 aliases backmost to nan 7. Teams are converting only 28.6% of modular tries, down from 55.8% past season.

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AP Pro Football Writer Rob Maaddi and AP Sports Writer Stephen Whyno contributed to this report

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