<P> The 2008 Detroit Lions season was the 79th season for the franchise in the National Football League . The Lions entered their third season under head coach Rod Marinelli . The Lions had one of the worst seasons in NFL history . The team lost all sixteen of their games in 2008 , becoming the first team since the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers to end an NFL season with no wins and no tied games , as well as the first to do it since the schedule was expanded to sixteen games in 1978 ( a feat that has since been matched by the 2017 Cleveland Browns ) . The Lions were mathematically eliminated from the playoffs by Week 11 , when they stood 0 -- 10 . The team 's victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in Week 16 of 2007 stood as their last until Week 3 of the 2009 season . From the time the Lions recorded a win over the Denver Broncos in 2007 to reach 6 -- 2 , the team went 5 -- 47 over their following 52 games ( including all of 2008 and 2009 ) before winning four games in a row at the end of the 2010 season . </P>
<P> The 2008 Detroit Lions season was the 79th season for the franchise in the National Football League . The Lions entered their third season under head coach Rod Marinelli . The Lions had one of the worst seasons in NFL history . The team lost all sixteen of their games in 2008 , becoming the first team since the 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers to end an NFL season with no wins and no tied games , as well as the first to do it since the schedule was expanded to sixteen games in 1978 ( a feat that has since been matched by the 2017 Cleveland Browns ) . The Lions were mathematically eliminated from the playoffs by Week 11 , when they stood 0 -- 10 . The team 's victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in Week 16 of 2007 stood as their last until Week 3 of the 2009 season . From the time the Lions recorded a win over the Denver Broncos in 2007 to reach 6 -- 2 , the team went 5 -- 47 over their following 52 games ( including all of 2008 and 2009 ) before winning four games in a row at the end of the 2010 season . </P>
who was the coach when the lions went 0-16
who was the coach when the lions went 0-16
Rod Marinelli
Rod Marinelli