Monday, September 21, 2026

His 11 playoff wins with Denver and Atlanta produced four Super Bowl trips and zero titles.

Four straight Super Bowl appearances, 11 playoff wins, no ring.

This Minnesota coach won 10 playoff games and lost four Super Bowls.

His nine playoff wins are the most by any coach still chasing a first championship.

An AFC South team joined the no-punt club during the 2025 season.

This NFC West franchise also strung together two punt-free games in 2025.

This NFC East club, energized by a rookie quarterback, did it in 2024.

A high-powered AFC East offense matched the punt-free double in 2021.

This linebacker made the goal-line stop heard round San Francisco before signing with Denver in 2025.

This defensive tackle wrecked the Super Bowl LIX pocket for Philadelphia, then signed a huge free-agent deal in New England.

This well-traveled tight end played in Atlanta's 28-3 Super Bowl before landing in Foxborough.

He started at corner for Tampa Bay's Super Bowl LV win and brought that ring with him to New England.

In 2025 this team lost six consecutive games in which it scored at least 20 points.

This club owns the NFL record with six straight games scoring 20-plus points and losing, spanning 1999 and 2000.

A 2-14 season for this team included five straight losses in which it scored 20 or more.

Calvin Johnson's record-yardage season came with five consecutive losses in which this team still scored 20-plus.

From 1988 through 2021 this team went 33 seasons without a conference title game — the longest such drought since 1970.

Before this season, this NFC club's last trip to its conference championship game came in the 2014 campaign.

The last time this glamour franchise played for a conference championship, it went on to win Super Bowl XXX after the 1995 season.

The longest active conference championship game drought in football belongs to this club, whose last such appearance came in the 1989 season.

From 2023 through 2025 this team lost a playoff game by three points or fewer in three straight seasons.

In 2025 this club became a No. 1 seed that failed to reach the Super Bowl for the third time in franchise history.

This franchise is 0-7 all-time in the Divisional Round.

A six-game playoff losing streak, tied for the longest active in the league, hangs over this club.

Taken second overall in 2024, he made Washington's NFC Championship start as a rookie — one of only three top-3 picks to reach a title game that fast.

The third pick of the 2024 draft started a conference title game inside his first two pro years — one of only three top-3 picks ever to manage it — for New England.

Cincinnati's first overall pick in 2020, he supplied another top-3-pick Super Bowl matchup in just his second season.

The 2011 first overall pick standing on the other sideline of that Super Bowl 50 top-3-pick showdown.

Carolina traded up to take him first overall in 2023; through three seasons he had 26 starts with fewer than 200 passing yards.

Among active quarterbacks, this 2016 first overall pick posted the worst passer rating through his first six career starts — a 61.7 that got his head coach fired.

No quarterback since 2000 has a worse EPA per dropback than this LSU product the Raiders took first overall in 2007.

Handed an expansion offensive line in 2002, this first overall pick was sacked more times in his NFL debut than any No. 1 pick before or since.