Last week, Neil Paine wrote that while the Eagles were 2-0, it was not all sunshine and rainbows in Philadelphia. The Eagles posted Game Scripts of -7.1 against Jacksonville and -4.8 against Indianapolis ; based on Neil’s research, the Eagles had the worst Game Scripts of any team to start 0-2 since at least 1978.

Against Washington in week 3, the Eagles fell behind 17-7 before coming from behind and again emerging victorious. As a result — and after trailing the Jags 17-0 and the Colts 20-6 — Philadelphia became the first team since at least 1940 to start a season 3-0 despite trailing by at least 10 points in each game.

In fact, only three teams had ever overcome a deficit of a touchdown or greater in each of their first three games: the 2000 Rams, the 2000 Jets, and the 1960 Giants. Those teams finished the season 10-6, 9-7, and 6-4-2 respectively, which means they went just 16-17-2 the rest of the season after starting 9-0.

In general, teams that have started 3-0 despite constantly falling behind have not been as successful over the rest of the season as other 3-0 teams. In fact, if you add up the worst margin for each 3-0 team in each game, 25 teams have trailed by an “aggregate” of 21+ points in those three games. On average, those teams won just 53.5% of the remainder of their games.

Here’s how to read the table below: The 2011 Bills started 3-0; in week 1, the team never trailed. In week 2, Buffalo fell behind by 18 points, and in week 3, Buffalo trailed by 21 points. The “aggregate” of the largest deficits in those three games was 39 points, the lowest since 1940 prior to the 2014 Eagles (41 points). The rest of the year, Buffalo went 3-10, with a rest-of-year winning percentage of 0.231.

Team Year Wk 1 Wk 2 Wk 3 Sum ROY Record ROY Win% BUF 2011 0 -18 -21 -39 3-10 0.231 GNB 1982 -23 -12 -1 -36 2-3-1 0.417 NWE 1999 -6 -21 -7 -34 5-8 0.385 DAL 1983 -20 -10 -3 -33 9-4 0.692 RAI 1982 -8 0 -24 -32 5-1 0.833 CLE 1993 -14 -3 -13 -30 4-9 0.308 NYG 1960 -14 -7 -7 -28 3-4-2 0.444 KAN 1995 -3 -14 -10 -27 10-3 0.769 DET 2011 -7 0 -20 -27 7-6 0.538 NYJ 2000 -7 -12 -7 -26 6-7 0.462 RAM 1944 -5 -4 -17 -26 1-6 0.143 CHI 2010 -11 -4 -10 -25 8-5 0.615 STL 1966 -7 -4 -14 -25 5-5-1 0.5 WAS 1986 -4 -3 -18 -25 9-4 0.692 IND 1996 -6 0 -18 -24 6-7 0.462 CIN 1990 -10 -13 0 -23 6-7 0.462 CHI 1985 -14 0 -8 -22 12-1 0.923 STL 2000 -7 -7 -7 -21 7-6 0.538 NOR 2013 -10 -4 -7 -21 8-5 0.615 DAL 1999 -21 0 0 -21 5-8 0.385 SDG 1994 -18 0 -3 -21 8-5 0.615 PHI 1993 0 -10 -11 -21 5-8 0.385 BUF 1991 -14 0 -7 -21 10-3 0.769 PIT 1979 -7 0 -14 -21 9-4 0.692 PHI 1954 0 -16 -5 -21 4-4-1 0.5 Average -9.44 -6.48 -10.08 -26 0.535

Thirty-five teams started 3-0 while never trailing (the 2012 Falcons and 2009 Saints being the most recent). In the aggregate, that group of teams won 66.2% of their remaining games. In other words, it’s great for Philadelphia that the team is 3-0. It’s even greater that they get to play in the NFC East. But not all 3-0 teams are created equally, and the Eagles are certainly in the running for ugliest 3-0 team ever.