Notable 5-0 starts (then losing sixth game)
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2023 9:57 pm
I did a '4-0 starts' thread a bit ago.
Well, in regards to both the Forty Niners & Eagles losing their firsts today, what other teams have started '5-0' then losing their next game (okay, the sixth game could be a tie as well)?
The only one I've come up with for now, without yet researching, are the 1993 Saints. Breathing their last breath of contender-ship under Jim Mora, NO starts off at that very record winning the opener vs 'Buddy Ball' Houston along with beating San Fran three weeks later! After finishing 12-4 the year prior, with all four defeats by a grand total of 13 points, things had to look to be even better this year! That's what I, and others I knew, remember thinking at the time.
They had themselves a bye week before going into Pittsburgh who, after losing their first two, would be riding a three-game win-streak going in. But I was worried. But all for naught for the 'Burgh in Cowher's second season would put up quite a convincer, 37-14! En route to his DPOY selection, Rod Woodson had two INTs with one of them, the first score of the game, being returned for a 63-yard TD.
Mora's Saints would go on to win their 6th and then 7th games to bring their record to both 6-2 and then 7-4 respectively, and then the bottom fell out. They'd lose their next four, FWIW win their finale to finish 8-8, but never experience being above-500 again in the remainder of Jim Mora's time in the Big Easy. In fact, the Saints would start...0-5 in '95!
No other examples other than them, or those two who lost today, at the top of my mind.
Sure enough one will pop right up right after I post this.
Well, in regards to both the Forty Niners & Eagles losing their firsts today, what other teams have started '5-0' then losing their next game (okay, the sixth game could be a tie as well)?
The only one I've come up with for now, without yet researching, are the 1993 Saints. Breathing their last breath of contender-ship under Jim Mora, NO starts off at that very record winning the opener vs 'Buddy Ball' Houston along with beating San Fran three weeks later! After finishing 12-4 the year prior, with all four defeats by a grand total of 13 points, things had to look to be even better this year! That's what I, and others I knew, remember thinking at the time.
They had themselves a bye week before going into Pittsburgh who, after losing their first two, would be riding a three-game win-streak going in. But I was worried. But all for naught for the 'Burgh in Cowher's second season would put up quite a convincer, 37-14! En route to his DPOY selection, Rod Woodson had two INTs with one of them, the first score of the game, being returned for a 63-yard TD.
Mora's Saints would go on to win their 6th and then 7th games to bring their record to both 6-2 and then 7-4 respectively, and then the bottom fell out. They'd lose their next four, FWIW win their finale to finish 8-8, but never experience being above-500 again in the remainder of Jim Mora's time in the Big Easy. In fact, the Saints would start...0-5 in '95!
No other examples other than them, or those two who lost today, at the top of my mind.
Sure enough one will pop right up right after I post this.