If Aberdeen aren't careful they could quickly find their unbroken top-flight status under serious threat.
Saturday's latest Premiership loss, against Dundee on Saturday, was a head scratcher.
The Dons started the game well, scoring the opener during a period of real dominance but it unravelled dramatically as they invited pressure that ultimately led to their fourth red card in five matches and defeat.
Ethan Hamilton's winning goal was one of the best strikes seen at Pittodrie in recent memory.
Despite keeping a clean sheet against high-flying Motherwell in the Scottish Cup in midweek, interim boss Peter Leven took academy graduate Jack Milne out of the side and replaced him with loanee Liam Morrison, who has looked uncomfortable in his outings so far.
If anyone doesn't think Aberdeen could be dragged into a fight to avoid the relegation play-off place then they haven't been paying attention to their league form since November 2024.
Kilmarnock in 11th nudged a point closer to them at the weekend with that gap now down to seven points.
Since Jimmy Thelin's first defeat as Dons' boss that month at St Mirren, they have played 52 Premiership matches and have won just 13 of them, only keeping 11 clean sheets in that time.
At Pittodrie they have won four league games and across all competitions they have only won 11 of their past 34 home matches. This is also playing out amid the backdrop of higher spending than ever before in the transfer market.
They now face back-to-back matches at Tannadice and Tynecastle having lost their past seven away games for the first time since the 1959-60 season when they lost eight on the spin.
Even the sides under Alex Miller, Ebbe Skovdahl, Steve Paterson and Mark McGhee didn't string together a run as ignominious as this one on the road.
Anyone who remains to be convinced that Aberdeen aren't immune from the 11th placed roulette should cast their minds back to 2014 when a Hibs side, with four points more than the Dons currently have after 26 matches and a position better off, dropped like a stone and were ultimately relegated by Hamilton Academical in a play-off shoot-out.
It is nearly two months since Thelin lost his job with the club two points off the top six. That gap is now 11 and they are now closer to trouble than those sunlit uplands.
It feels as though this patched-up Aberdeen team need leadership quickly or this campaign could tail-spin, if it isn't doing so already.