NFL has been operating for nearly half a century, and the rules of playoff competition have been adjusted many times, but overall, "ten wins" is an average threshold for the playoffs. Often, when the schedule is halfway through, being able to reach the ten wins team will basically ensure a playoff spot.

Just like this year's National League, ten wins are the standard line of the playoffs, and nine wins and seven losses are a special case.

But unexpectedly, this year's AFC was broken, and the gap between the strong and the weak team was completely widened. The AFC West Division has become a bottom-level division that everyone can bully. On the one hand, there are as many as six teams with eleven wins, and on the other hand, San Diego Lightning has only won eight wins and entered the playoffs as a division champion.

As a result, the New England Patriots, who won eleven times, were cruelly squeezed out of the playoffs.

It once again proved the difficulty and difficulties of the NFL schedule to increase to 16 games. When the league schedule was still 14 games, the Miami Dolphins entered the Super Bowl for three consecutive years at their peak. The second year was the top scorer and was able to reach the Super Bowl again the following year, winning the title to defend the title, writing a miracle.

However, the regular season only added two games, but further expanded the difficulty of the schedule, which also doubled the difficulty of maintaining strength for two consecutive seasons or multiple seasons.

In basketball, football, ice hockey, baseball, volleyball and other collective events, you can more or less see the peak team that established the dynasty, but in rugby events, there are only seven teams that have won the title in Super Bowl history, including Green Bay Packers, Miami Dolphins, Pittsburgh Steelers, San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys, Denver Broncos and New England Patriots, and the number of teams with three consecutive championships is "zero".

So far, no team has been able to establish a true dynasty in NFL. On the one hand, it is because the strength between the teams is closer and the competition is more fierce; on the other hand, it is because of the compactness and fierceness of the schedule and competition system, and uncertain factors always exist.

But it is precisely because of this that NFL can become the leader of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States. The Super Bowl champion every year is full of suspense. The intensity and excitement of the game are ups and downs. The result can never be determined until the last moment. The fans' expectations and excitement can continue until the end.

Thanks to the special schedule and competition system, coupled with the control of the hard salary cap, the strength of each team is relatively balanced, which also ensures the viewing of NFL games. The suspense of the winner and the sparks of the match are always eye-catching, and the trend of the playoffs is even more unpredictable, which has become the most important means for the league to attract audiences.

This year's New England Patriots regretfully stopped in the playoffs, which is definitely a big upset!

This has completely broken the playoff pattern of the AFC. Now it can be imagined that the intensity of the AFC playoffs may be stronger than that of the National League. Then, the next step is to test the "gold content of victory". Whoever has the advantage of the schedule and achieves excellent results against the weak teams, and who is the one who fights out a bloody path in the strong duel and enters the playoffs, will witness the bloody storm.

Similarly, in the AFC wild card game, the top seed Tennessee Titans and the second seed Pittsburgh Steelers both took the bye.

The third-seeded Miami Dolphins will play against the sixth-seeded Baltimore Ravens, and the fourth-seeded San Diego Lightning will play against the fifth-seeded Indianapolis Colts.

After the FCF match matches were released, all news media began to discuss it hotly, because from all aspects, it is likely that low-ranking seeds will overturn high-ranking seeds, which also means that the suspense is more difficult to guess, and the possibility of a wonderful showdown in the divisional competition is also higher.

All fans are starting to get ready to go. Regardless of whether their home team enters the playoffs or not, the expectations are gradually rising. Who can laugh to the end? Don’t forget that although the New England Patriots are eliminated, the defending champion New York Giants are the top seed of the National League!

Li Chengqi is also one of the enthusiastic fans.

After the Green Bay Packers defeated the Detroit Lions, the entire network was already in a state of turmoil. Li Chengqi knew at the first time that the team had secured a playoff spot, and then couldn't wait to search for relevant news on major networks. All Green Bay fans were in a state of cheering.

Although the loyal fans of Green Bay Packers have never given up, standing behind the team from beginning to end, and doing their best to cheer for the team, when Green Bay Packers really entered the playoffs, the ecstasy burst out exponentially. They didn't expect that Lu Yiqi could really do it.

It’s not because they don’t believe in Lu Yiqi, but because they know the difficulties more than anyone else. Even if Lu Yiqi fails to do it in the end, they will not shift the responsibility to Lu Yiqi. After such a ups and downs, every packer fan can feel the team’s growth and transformation, and can feel the energy that Lu Yiqi injects into this team. They are always firmly united.

However, their struggle and struggle, their persistence and burning were finally rewarded. With Favre leaving and McCarthy was cleaned, the Green Bay Packers finally stood firm and found the rhythm of victory again, united and fought out of the siege and entered the playoffs.

The 2008 season was too precious and unforgettable for Packers fans.

Li Chengqi was also lucky to be one of them.

The webpage was full of surprises and praises, cheers and shouts, and the joy filled Li Chengqi's heart. Pure happiness and joy were boiling like magma, and the smile climbed up to the corners of his mouth, as if no difficulties were important anymore.

What’s even more gratifying is that not only among Green Bay Packers fans, Chinese post bars are also making noise, because major portals have not missed such big news.

"The Chinese miracle: Lu Yiqi led the Green Bay Packers into the playoffs!"

"The youngest head coach in history! He is also the youngest playoff head coach in history!"

"Lu Yiqi has created history again: he entered the playoffs in his first head coach season in his career!"

"Continuing NCAA's brilliant record, Lu Yiqi once again led the team to the playoffs."

"Real interpretation of an impossible miracle, Lu Yiqi became the new player in the playoffs."

"Above the No. 1 sports arena in the United States, a miracle belonging to the Chinese is being staged!"

Objectively speaking, rugby is still relatively weak in the Chinese world, and its promotion level is very limited. Many people even don’t know what rugby is. Naturally, the quantity and quality of reports cannot be compared with the NBA. However, major portals have used thrilling titles to pull the general public’s attention, so the heat of discussion has quietly begun to rise.
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