NFL hot seat watch, Week 11: What head coaches are feeling the heat?

The NFL-worst Houston Texans are getting worse by the week under Lovie Smith

Let’s be real. We all love the beard and the great work he did with the Chicago Bears in the mid-2000s, but this is the end of the line for Lovie Smith as an NFL head coach.

Although the Houston Texans were not expected to be the least bit good, this team stinks. Houston has the worst record in the league at 1-7-1. Every other team in the NFL has at least two times as many wins of them…

Smith seems like a likable guy and has been a football lifer, but the Texans need to get themselves an innovative offensive-minded head coach to get them out of this perpetual quagmire they have thrown themselves into. As weird as it sounds, maybe Bill O’Brien was the best stick of deodorant this awful football operation ever had? The Texans are as bad as they were as an expansion team.

Houston needs to turn the page and pair C.J. Stroud with an offensive-minded head coach in 2023.

Eventually, someone will ask Matt LaFleur, “what would you say … you do here?”

We are in the midst of the worst Green Bay Packers season in quite some time. The team has not been this bad since Aaron Rodgers broke his collarbone in the latter part of the Mike McCarthy era. To be frank, this team is probably as listless as when Rodgers took over the reins of the offense full-time from Brett Favre in 2008. The only problem is Rodgers is a two-time reigning NFL MVP.

After dropping to 4-7 on the year by losing at home to the Tennessee Titans on Thursday Night Football, the Packers’ pathway into the postseason is rather bleak. Somebody is going to have to take the fall if they finish well below .500 this year. It will probably end up being head coach Matt LaFleur. We are approaching Office Space territory with him. “What would you say … you do here?”

There is no chance Green Bay is catching the red-hot Minnesota Vikings this year, so now what?