I know, I know, you all want the next Stroud post. Sorry, this is a little more pressing to me. (And it kind of ties in to Stroud anyway.) The Texans went from minus-12.4% offensive DVOA (26th) in 2024 to minus-2.4% DVOA (19th) in 2025. In weighted offensive
Playing an MNF playoff game as a Sun Belt team that rarely gets any national attention and has an obvious weak point is a little like someone stopping by unannounced for dinner. I can’t hide everything in time. We don’t normally eat in the dining room and also
The most important tidbit I got out of Tyler Dunne's fantastic two-part series on the Texans defense was this, from defensive coordinator Matt Burke: The defense will change when someone actually challenges it. They haven't really been tested in that way so far. So the Texans
The 2025 offseason began with a surprise – the Texans trading Laremy Tunsil and a fourth-round pick for a second-round pick, a third-round pick, a fourth-round pick, and a seventh-round pick over the next two years. Laremy Tunsil has been, if not an All-Pro in a league with Trent Williams, one
The NFL is always unfair to its young quarterbacks in some major way. Last year, CJ Stroud was asked to deal with the world’s dumbest offensive line stunt pickups. The sort of stuff that would be inexcusable in any major college program, let alone in the NFL. The offensive
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.