The Green Bay Packers are a schoolyard team. Let’s face it, they’ve got absolutely nothing. So they play undisciplined football because Brett Favre has the reins. There’s no way Mike Sherman can call him over to the sidelines and tell him he’s got to make better reads. He’s throwing to Antonio Chatman! He’s handing the ball off to Samkon Gado! You know what Sherman’s philosophy is right now? It’s “Brett, I know half of our WRs were working on high steel last week, and I know your starting RB runs a 4.8/40. So just do whatever you want. Close your eyes and throw the ball downfield.”And on that last INT in Sunday’s Philly game, you know that’s exactly what he was doing.

Samkon Gado is a Liberty grad. That’s a Division 1-AA school. And he wasn’t even the starter. Actually, he wasn’t even the backup. He was the backup’s backup. A third-stringer.

That said, Samkon’s a great story. He carried the ball 26 times for 111 yards and a TD last week. And he’s got 4 scores on the season. But he’s averaging 3.3 yards/run. That’s not very good. He’s no Mewelde Moore, or Greg Jones. He’s a 23 year old kid with a possible future as a backup/3rd string RB.

Green Bay’s scored 232 on the season and surrendered 223. With all their injuries they deserve to be in the NFC North basement. Had they managed to keep anyone healthy they’d be right behind Chicago and ahead of Minnesota. The Vikings have given up 257 points on the year vs. 198 scored. Their 6-5 record is something of a mystery.

The Houston Texans are going to get Reggie Bush. You don’t have to look past their 1-10 record to know they’re the NFL’s worst club. But stats are free, so what the hell? Dom Capers knows it’s all over for him. You have to remember that this is still an expansion team. No one’s running to sign with them via free agency. The only way for them to get good is by being really, really bad. Pull a Colts-Rams Edgerrin James/Marshall Faulk draftday deal and trade Reggie Bush for a top WR and an offensive line. They give up an average of 382 yards of offense/game. That includes 158 yards on the ground. They’ve scored 168 points in 11 games and surrendered 325!

The Texans were up 17-0 on Sunday. They let the Rams score 10 points in the final minute of the 4th quarter to send it to overtime. At that point the Rams were using Ryan Fitzpatrick at QB. Fitz is a 7th round pick out of Harvard. The Texans let him throw for 310 yards on 19-30 for 3 TDs.

The rest? Baltimore, the Jets, San Francisco, and Arizona all lost. Arizona desperately needs an offensive line and some playmakers on defense. Baltimore needs Kyle Boller to keep scoring. The Jets just need an offseason to get their starting unit some time to heal. And San Francisco is hopeless.

At this point I’d say Green Bay and Houston are the only scary-bad teams. We know the story with the rest of the 2-8 squads. But there’s nothing more frightening than watching Brett Favre fling the ball around like a maniac, or one of the Pack’s 8th-stringers lope downfield and drop a 4th down pass. I guess the only worse punishment would be watching a Texans game start-to-finish.