They have two wins, which were both at home against the struggling Queensland sides. With all due respect they were par for the course.
But their losses haven't exactly been disgraceful. They received plenty of criticism for the thrashing Essendon handed out to them at the start of the season but subsequent weeks have shown that the Bombers are a much better team than what we saw last season.
Last week's loss to Fremantle could have gone either way and the Bulldogs showed plenty in what is becoming a very difficult task - Fremantle in Perth.
The Sunday twilight clash against Collingwood was always going to be their biggest test of the season. And they looked to be more than ready for it when they kicked the first three goals of the game while the scoreless Magpies could only watch on.
The fact that they had to wait more than an hour of playing time for their next goal was a major concern. Granted, Collingwood doesn't make it easy for any team but the Bulldogs were bandied about pre-season as one of the few genuine stumbling blocks for a potential back-to-back Collingwood premiership.
The Dogs were missing some firepower up forward with Barry Hall and Shaun Higgins out injured, but that didn't make a huge difference as they were getting smashed in the midfield. The Magpies led inside 50s 22-7 in the second term alone.
Yes, the Bulldogs hit back with a run of goals on either side of the final change but the Pies set the whips cracking to run home with eight goals in the final 25 minutes of play.
Four of those goals came to Leigh Brown, hardly a star but certainly someone whose standing in the football world has gone up in the past 12 months. What is most telling about that fact is that his direct opponent was Brian Lake.
Lake has had a horrendous summer, battling three simultaneous injuries to his knee, hip and shoulder. He has played the last three games but looked out of sorts on Sunday.
He has been touted as one of the game's premier full backs of the past couple of years but the best don't let through four goals in a quarter.
It's unfair to pin all the Bulldogs' concerns on Lake. Adam Cooney is just another Bulldog who is yet to show his absolute best and he had another quiet one on Sunday evening. He needs to get up and going if the Dogs are going to continue their run of finishing in the top four.
It's not quite crisis time yet down at the kennel. Plenty of other sides will have the microscope turned on them this week so the critics won't be too savage.
But they need to win a game against a respectable opposition team some time soon and what better time than against the Swans on neutral Canberra territory this coming week?
