NFL hot seat watch, Week 12: Who is feeling the heat?

The Green Bay Packers are heading towards a rebuild sooner rather than later

It goes without saying, but the Green Bay Packers are trapped. They have to win and win now with Aaron Rodgers in the back end of his prime. While he is under contract for the next few seasons, he feels like a year-to-year player at this point of his illustrious career. At this juncture, we have to wonder if Matt LaFleur even has it in him to elevate the entire Green Bay operation.

The Packers may have been down in some capacity to their relatively high standard when he took over, but LaFleur did not inherit a bare cupboard in the slightest. Green Bay has to accept that once the Packers go off Rodgers, winning games will be hard to come by. Moving on from LaFleur after one bad year would be highly controversial, but it is not like Rodgers is getting any younger either.

Green Bay should be dominating in a weak NFC, not sitting several games below .500 at a bad 4-7.

Few organizations in the league are as directionless as the Houston Texans

No matter what the Houston Texans say they are doing, it is not working. They have the worst record in the league at 1-8-1. Not only can they not finish the season over .500, but there is a chance the Texans may not even win a game the rest of the way. Although Lovie Smith is not the cause of all their problems, who is to say he will still be around if they end up with the No. 1 pick?

The Texans have already benched Davis Mills in favor of Kyle Allen before their Week 12 game. Frankly, Mills was supposedly one of the better things going for the Texans at the start of year, but now the former Stanford quarterback is just a guy. At this point, the Texans are one of only a few teams in the NFL that is playing for draft positioning and not playoff positioning in late November.

While there is still hope across many of the fanbases in the NFL, there is next to none in Houston.