They may have been left for dead at one point or another so far this season, but counting an NFL team out too soon could make you look foolish.

All around the league there have been consistent knee jerk reactions, with teams being left for dead only to rebound in a major way the following week. Here are several teams who have turned things around after a rough start:

New York Giants

In New York, when the Giants got off to a horrific 0-2 start to the season, fans and pundits alike were chiming in with their thoughts on why the team was so bad and how they would be looking at a top draft pick in the next draft.

Then, in dramatic fashion, the Giants got back on track. Starting off with a solid win over the Texans in Week 3, suddenly an offensive line that couldn’t block out the sun if standing in front of you was opening holes in the run game. In the pass game, offensive coordinator Ben McAdoo went away from the long step drops and got Eli Manning in rhythm with an up-tempo, quick passing game. They’re letting the offense thrive on the run after catch and helping out an offensive line that couldn’t protect Manning long enough to run consistent five- and seven-step drops.

“We’re starting to make some plays and do some good things,” said Manning, who tossed two touchdown passes in their victory over the Falcons. “And we’re staying patient when things don’t go well. We’ve had good plays, we’ve had things going better so we can stay patient and not get all uptight and worry.”

Kansas City Chiefs

In Kansas City, the Chiefs were left looking for answers after starting off the season 0-2 and looking inept. Andy Reid adjusted his philosophy and got his offense back on track, plus got the bonus of his defenders stepping up after sustaining some serious injuries to the unit.

Leaning heavily on their run game and tight ends in the passing game, the Chiefs’ turnaround led to back to back domination of AFC East opponents. The Dolphins, after coming out of the gates like gang busters, looked down and out after the Chiefs came to Miami undermanned and still manhandled the Dolphins in front of their fans.

“We were never consistently able to maintain the momentum in this game, you have to give Kansas City credit but certainly we didn’t help ourselves” Dolphins head coach Joe Philbin said.

Miami Dolphins

As the heat under the seats of Coach Philbin and quarterback Ryan Tannehill turned up, the Dolphins had the tall order of traveling abroad to play a Raiders team that had taken the Patriots to the wire the prior week. The Dolphins went out onto the pitch at Wimbley Stadium and shellacked the Raiders, costing head coach Dennis Allen his job and ironically giving former Dolphins head coach Tony Sparano his next head coaching gig.

With a strong commitment to the running game and a consistent Tannehill, the Dolphins are a handful to deal with but their inconsistencies are maddening.  Either way, they were able to bounce back when pundits and fans alike were ready to bury them after three games.

New England Patriots

After getting their teeth kicked in by the Dolphins and Chiefs, New England’s losses created a stir across the league that the Patriots were awful. Tom Brady was supposedly on a rapid decline, the personnel around Brady was below average, Bill Belichick had lost his magic and the overall Patriots mystique had worn off.

“When you get beat like we did, it’s the whole team,” Belichick said after the Chiefs dismantled them. “We’ve got to all do a better job. We’ve got to coach better, we’ve got to play better, we’ve got to do everything better. We need to do everything better offensively. We had like five first downs in the first half or something like that. We did a lot of things wrong. We turned the ball over in the second half. Pretty much, we need to do everything better.”

Then, the undefeated Bengals came to town riding high expecting to capitalize on the Patriots’ struggles, only to run into a buzz saw. The perfect storm, which included talk of Brady retiring, lit a fire under the Patriots previously unseen this season and the team responded by rolling on to victory in dominant fashion, hinting that things in Foxboro aren’t as bad as they seem.

These examples from the young season lend credence to the fact that the NFL is a week to week game. The phrase “any given Sunday” exists because this game of inches we call football has tides that can turn ever so suddenly. These sudden knee jerk reactions so early in the season, when there is not a solid body of work to judge a team on are foolish, because teams still have an opportunity to rally and get things turned around.

That’s exactly what the Giants, Chiefs, Dolphins and Patriots have done already in the early going of the year. But as the NFL is a week to week league, there’s really no telling if things will swing dramatically back into the losing direction for these franchises, as the fortunes of others swing back into contention.