“17:35”.

The visiting team is in front and the home team is in back.

The final score was finally frozen in such a set of numbers. The Green Bay Packers easily defeated the Detroit Lions by 18 points at home, and without any suspense, ended the 2008 regular season journey with a victory. At the same time, this also means that a new record in NFL was born.

In the long-term period since the founding of the Rugby League, after the first team that won all sixteen games, the first team that lost all sixteen games was officially born:

Detroit lion.

The team that ended such a "perfect" season is the Green Bay Packers, the Detroit Lions' century-old rival in the same area, and the two sides have joined forces to record history.

For the Detroit Lions, this is a shameful season. I am afraid that a hundred years later, I still cannot forget such a season.

This was also a shameful season for head coach Rod Marinelli, which officially ruined his head coaching career.

Marinelli, who is 59 years old this year, has been a high school football coach since 1973 and has been playing in NCAA and NFL for nearly 30 years, before he won the first chance to challenge the head coach. However, since he became the head coach of the Detroit Lions in 2006, his record has been unsatisfactory. He has only won ten wins in three seasons, including a historic all-loss season, and his career was bleak.

In sharp contrast, Lu Yiqi, who just turned 30 last month, won ten wins in his first head coaching season in his career, which also made Marinelli even more embarrassed. It turns out that "people are so angry that people are more angry."

This also directly proves that Marinelli does not have the ability to be a head coach.

It is also indirectly proved that offensive/defense coordinator and head coach are completely different positions after all. Being able to become an excellent offensive/defense coordinator does not mean being competent for the head coach.

After the regular season, the Detroit Lions directly announced the end of their cooperation with Marinelli.

However, as a defensive forward coach, Marinelli's ability is still unquestionable. His level has been widely recognized in the industry as the industry, and the regrets he left at the Detroit Lions are still subjective and objective.

Even if he can't be a head coach, he still has no problem as a defensive coordinator. At least, until the future time point that Lu Yiqi is familiar with, Marinelli still has not retired and still serves as a defensive coordinator among the NFL's Dallas Cowboys, which also proves his defensive coaching level.

And this time, before the offseason arrived, the Chicago Bears of the North District of the National League officially announced the hiring of Marinelli as the team's defensive forward coach.

The Chicago Bears, which is based on defense, have set their sights on the next season. This also means that Marinelli and Lu Yiqi will face at least twice next year.

After losing to the Green Bay Packers in the 16th week of the regular season, the Chicago Bears had to act according to their eyes. Only theoretical possibility remains to advance to the playoffs. With the Green Bay Packers successfully defeating the Detroit Lions, this officially announced that the Chicago Bears' hopes for the playoffs were shattered.

This is also the reason why the Chicago Bear immediately turned his attention to next year - the departure of McCarthy and Favre did not reshuffle the North District of the National League. "A wolf came again after leaving, and the tiger came again." The younger Green Bay Packers had a stronger impact, and the Chicago Bears must accelerate their preparations.

For the Detroit Lions and Chicago Bears, reconstruction and reinforcement are important tasks, and they must set their sights on the next season; for Lu Yiqi and the Green Bay Packers, it is a different scene—

At the age of 29, he became the first head coach under the age of 30 in the league history, and Lu Yiqi led the team to a record of 10 wins and 6 losses.

This not only easily achieved the 50% winning rate that Ted Thompson required, but also made a bloody road in the chaotic NFC North District, lighting up the road to the playoffs. This was a situation that neither Thompson nor the senior leaders of Green Bay Packers could have predicted, and it was an unexpected surprise.

In the penultimate week of the regular season, the Green Bay Packers defeated the Chicago Bears away, while the Minnesota Vikings faced their direct rivals at the playoffs at home, and finally narrowly defeated their opponents with a free kick. This also allowed the Minnesota Vikings to maintain a winning advantage and take the position of the National League North Division Champion.

In the last week of the regular season, the Green Bay Packers easily defeated the Detroit Lions at home, and the Minnesota Vikings once again successfully defended the last line of defense at home, narrowly defeating the defending champion New York Giants with a score of 19:20, which also kept the suspense of the playoffs' place competition to the last moment.

Division champion, Minnesota Vikings, eleven wins and five losses.

The second division is Green Bay Packers, with ten wins and six losses.

The third division is Chicago Bears, with eight wins and eight losses.

The fourth in the division, the Detroit Lions, with zero wins and sixteen losses.

Therefore, the Minnesota Vikings officially finalized a playoff spot. In the last three weeks of the regular season, facing three consecutive playoff spots, direct competitors, Arizona Cardinals, Atlanta Falcons, New York Giants, and Brad Childers led the team to grit their teeth and all won. The performance was amazing, which also laid the foundation for a leading position in the final stage and suppressed the Green Bay Packers who were catching up strongly in the last moment.

The three-way competition in the North District of the National League finally came to an end in a tragic and magnificent way, but the playoffs did not end like this.

The NFL playoff rules have been mentioned before. Each federation has a total of six seed seats, and the No. 1 to 4 seed seats are the champions of each division; the No. 5 and No. 6 seed seats are the two teams with the best record except for the Division Champions, and these two teams are also called "wild cards".

Among the National League in the 2008 season, in addition to the four major division champions, the best results were the Atlanta Falcons and Green Bay Packers with 10 wins and 6 losses, the Philadelphia Eagles with 9 wins and 6 losses and 1 draw, the Dallas Cowboys with 9 wins and 7 losses and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with 9 wins and 7 losses.

So, the Atlanta Falcons and Green Bay Packers were the two teams with the best record outside the Federation's division championship, squeezed out the Philadelphia Eagles with a half-win advantage, successfully won the wild card, and both entered the playoffs together.

However, because the results are also ten wins and six losses, the ranking of who is the fifth seed and who is the sixth seed between the Atlanta Falcons and the Green Bay Packers still needs to be arranged. For this situation, the league has formulated detailed playoff ranking rules to ensure that there is no dispute.
Chapter completed!