Two Sunday nights ago, the Texans closed out the 2025 Kansas City Chiefs for all intents and purposes. The Chargers would finish the job, as Patrick Mahomes tore his ACL in Los Angeles’ narrow win at Arrowhead a week later, removing the biggest bogeyman in the AFC from the playoff
Here is a take I’ve been brewing in the lab for a while, but I’m going to warn you that you’re not going to like it. Okay? You were warned. One of the promises of analytical thinking is the idea that we can create heuristics that help
There are 32 NFL teams. The Houston Texans are just about middle of the pack in total red zone trips – 18th in the league, with 39 trips. They are the only team in the league with that many trips and fewer than 20 touchdowns, at 17. The only team in
When I was a dipshit college student, there was no Twitter, Facebook was really new, and the law of the land for aspiring writers was: Write something, send it to some bigger sites, and hope they like it enough to post it in their links posts.
I've been thinking a lot lately about a specific subset of fans, one of whom is a BlueSky reply guy, where the train of thought is "the ceiling of the Houston Texans is not high enough."
There was a play in Houston's Week 10 win over the Jaguars where I thought something that I think every week when I'm watching football: I guess they're just not going to be punished for it today. It came following this Trevor Lawrence throw:
One thing that tends to crop up when a football team is underperforming is the idea that people must be fired. It happened with Bobby Slowik in 2024, of course. The Texans are 3-5, and I've heard from quite a few fans who just want to see change.
The thing about the 2025 Houston Texans is: They were never going to be a team that was hard to first-guess. If they failed, it was going to be very clear where they failed (offense) and what moves they made that were going to fail them (offensive coordinator, offensive line
There are many NFL writers – I'll go with Albert Breer to name one, though he is hardly the only one – who led the story of Brian Callahan's firing with the idea of a dysfunctional organization. I actually don't think I agree, or at least
We live in one of the most tedious moments of human history to have the curse of actually paying attention to things.
Nick Caley's offense is not off to a good start. The Texans were, frankly, lucky to crack 19 points on Monday night. They needed a huge Jaylin Noel punt return and a blocked punt to get the short fields to get there. I'm not panicked about
Both to hold myself accountable and also create sort of a living record of where my fantasy teams were, I wanted to make a series where I explored the decisions I made and how stupid or smart they wound up being.