Overreaction by fans is inevitable after Week 1.
It happens every year, and sometimes we just have to tell ourselves to R-E-L-A-X.
Regardless, panic sets in for fans whose teams underperformed in their season openers, so let’s take a look at exactly which fanbases are the most concerned, and which are the least concerned.
The website SportsBetting.ag conducted a semi-scientific study to see the full spectrum on an infograph, and you can find that here (as well as below): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JmX8b9xxCGZIj3Avn9pRuwrHkLpP2lCz/view?usp=sharing
The infograph is based on X data from Sunday evening until through last night, tracking “panic” tweets from each NFL fan base.
For example, “The Chiefs are cooked,” “The Chiefs are screwed,” “The Chiefs are terrible,” “The Chiefs time is over,” “The Chiefs suck,” “The Chiefs defense is horrible,” “Andy Reid should retire,” etc. It should be noted that all these tweets also have fan base identifiers, like #ChiefsKingdom.
Even the teams who won on Sunday will have their fair share of “doomers,” – i.e. “We shouldn’t have won,” “We played terrible,” “Our offense sucks,” “Our defense sucks,” “Change quarterbacks,” “Fire the coach,” “We got lucky,” “We won’t win next week playing like that,” etc.
Overall, more than 120,000 tweets were tracked.
Here’s the team-by-team panic tweet breakdown, and you can see the graphic below:
Dolphins — 9,064
Giants — 8,750
Lions — 7,890
Chiefs — 7,120
Bears — 6,644
Browns — 6,420
Ravens — 6,046
Cowboys — 5,713
Jets — 5,549
Seahawks — 5,133
Texans — 4,885
Falcons — 4,662
Saints — 4,466
Patriots — 4,269
Titans — 4,001
Panthers — 3,762
Broncos — 3,504
Cardinals — 3,276
Commanders — 3,027
Buccaneers — 2,787
Raiders — 2,616
Vikings — 2,422
Steelers — 2,273
Rams — 2,123
49ers — 1,894
Chargers — 1,726
Jaguars — 1,327
Bengals — 1,113
Colts — 933
Packers — 781
Eagles — 642
Bills — 532
