The Roller Coaster That Is Texans Fandom
Part two of our Re-Sign or Replace analysis for the Houston Texans heading into the NFL Free Agency period, which opens March 9th. I chose to re-sign our two offensive lineman free agents Ed Ingram and Trent Brown while letting Christian Kirk, Nick Chubb, and Dare Ogumbowale find another home in the league. The Texans […]
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It is customary after every Super Bowl to ask whether we can learn anything from the team that won. I suppose all 31 teams are doing that today. Usually the answer is no. There are any number of ways to win in the NFL and the Seahawks used one of those. Teams can try to […]
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THIS SEASON, NO DEFENSE, NO CHAMPIONSHIP: Most know the cliche of “Defense wins championships.” Is that really true every season? Not necessarily. However, for 2025-26, if you didn’t have a top-tier defense, or one that could consistently play that way, you weren’t getting very far. The culmination of that sentiment came in Super Bowl LX. […]
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Throughout this past season, the Texans’ wide receiver group had moments where they delivered — and even more where it felt like they left a lot on the table. Houston already have their star wideout in Nico Collins. Collins eclipsed 1,100 receiving yards, but it still felt like there were games where he wasn’t involved […]
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Welcome to the precipice. Beyond here is the football wasteland. Seven months of uninterrupted non-football punctuated by the various oases of football activity like the combine, free agency, the draft, the schedule release (for reasons that elude me) await us past this point. With that in mind, here is your Super Bowl live discussion thread […]
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We asked and you answered, so let’s take a look at the results from this week’s survey! It looks like most of y’all made the correct decision in picking the Seahawks to win it all. May Durga bless and keep the Seahawks on Sunday. And if you want to make some picks of your own […]
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Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NFL. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Texans fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. With the Super Bowl just days away, it’s time to get everyone on the record. Who […]
5 days ago | 1 read
With all the focus on the offense right now, particularly what C.J. Stroud will do in 2026, it seems like a good time to take a look at the defense. Houston Texans head coach DeMeco Ryans and defensive coordinator Matt Burke built one of the best defenses in the NFL last season. Along with secondary […]
6 days ago | 1 read
Last offseason, it felt like the Texans had a very strong group heading into the regular season. You had Joe Mixon, who, when healthy, is one of the best running backs in the league, penciled in as the starter. You also drafted a young, promising rookie in Woody Marks out of USC, and added a […]
7 days ago | 1 read
In an era of one-year contracts and player-friendly deals, free agency is a significant aspect of the team building process. Especially for the Texans, as they still seek their first AFC Championship appearance, all it could take is one or two key free agent decisions. According to Jason from Over The Cap, the Houston Texans […]
8 days ago | 1 read
We have spent a great deal of time over the last couple of weeks looking at what is wrong. I have to cop to that myself as we have focused a lot of angst towards C.J. Stroud and deservedly so. Some of that could be labeled as click bait as the odds of Stroud being […]
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BIG PICTURE: In one respect, this season was a massive success. The team tied its record for most wins in a regular season, matched its longest regular season winning streak and counting the playoffs, set the franchise winning streak record. It finally won a road playoff game. It got three players on the All-Pro team […]
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The Houston Texans have made their first significant staff changes of the 2026 offseason. KPRC’s Aaron Wilson reports that the team is moving on from tight ends coach Jake Moreland, assistant linebacker coach Ben Bolling, and offensive assistant Mike Snyder: All three coaches have spent multiple years on Houston’s staff, and now all will be […]
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In the previous iteration of the Houston Texans, before Watson unmasked himself, the offense excelled when Will Fuller V was streaking down the field like his nicknamesake The Flash. Under Demeco Ryans, Tank Dell fills that role for the team. In ‘23 & ‘24, Dell combined for 156 targets, 98 receptions, 1376 yards, 69 first […]
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I work throughout the day as a teacher. Officially, I am a special education teacher, but I spend the vast majority of my time in English classrooms. If there is one axiom that has been drilled into us over the years (28 for me) it is that if one student has a question then a […]
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The Day After the Day After…when the raw, immediate emotions from the aftermath of a game diminish into the realm of clarity and the proverbial (or literal) hangover no longer haunts the mind. With that, a review of Conference Championship Weekend: A painful weekend for Texans’ fans: It is said that perhaps the four cruelest […]
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I made a statement in the last VOT that this decision will be the hardest decision in franchise history. The Texans paid their last franchise quarterback a lot of money, but the decision to pay him was not difficult. Everyone in the organization and city agreed at the time that he was a franchise quarterback. […]
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It’s never fun when your team loses in the playoffs. When they win, you can gloss over all of the mistakes with the satisfaction of victory. But, when they lose, all those miscues become the center of everyone’s attention once the game – and season – is over. Every mistake will be combed over in […]
19 days ago | 3 reads
If you told most people in 2023 that there would be real doubt surrounding C.J. Stroud’s future as a top-tier NFL quarterback, you would’ve been called insane. Since his historic rookie season, Stroud has been chasing that same level of play — and he hasn’t consistently looked like the same quarterback. There are still moments […]
19 days ago | 2 reads
A standard high school football offensive playbook is usually somewhere between a dozen and a hundred pages long (based on how serious the school takes the game). Throughout those pages, many have options on each such as route trees, shifts, motions, run/play action decisions and more. If each variation had its own page, they’d number […]
20 days ago | 5 reads
Tough losses necessitate tough questions. That’s exactly what I asked when I requested instant reactions and opinions on QB C.J. Stroud directly after Houston’s embarrassing loss to the Patriots in the Divisional Round. What are your instant reactions to the Pats beat down of the Texans? What’s the outlook for Stroud and what needs to […]
21 days ago | 3 reads
It started innocently enough. Landy Locker asked whether Nick Caley could grow as a play caller and whether he would get an opportunity to do that. DeMeco Ryans gave a seemingly innocuous response that is actually very telling. For much of the season, he gave full throated defenses of Caley as an offensive coordinator. In […]
21 days ago | 2 reads
The Day After the Day After…when the raw, immediate emotions from the aftermath of a game diminish into the realm of clarity and the proverbial (or literal) hangover no longer haunts the mind. With that, a review of the Divisional Round Weekend: Arguably the Worst 2nd Quarter for the Offense this Season: That 2nd Quarter […]
22 days ago | 4 reads
In the aftermath of C.J. Stroud’s worst game as a Texan, the team has decided to head off speculation at the pass and are picking up the fifth year option on his rookie contract. At the very worst, he will be under contract for the next two years. Furthermore, they at least openly admitted that […]
22 days ago | 3 reads
I never thought I would be making a post like this! After the Houston Texans’ heartbreaking first half performance against the New England Patriots in the divisional round yesterday, many across the country and across the internet used halftime to propose one major second-half adjustment: benching QB CJ Stroud for backup Davis Mills. You know […]
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