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Redrafting the Houston Texans 2022 Draft Class
It’s been three and a half seasons since the 2022 rookie class took the field and Texans fans have a good sense of who hit and who missed. Many of the woes the team is experiencing in the 2025 season are due to the mistakes of this class. Offensive line Conversely, the strength of the […]
Eye of the Cyclones: Higgins and Noel Week 9 Review (Jaguars Preview)
Welcome to week 8 of the Cyclone tracker! This is where we follow our resident weather-themed duo in rookie receivers Jayden Higgins and Jaylin Noel, both out of Iowa State (hence, the “Cyclone” twins). As always, there will be analysis, projections, commentary, and relevant updates that happen in real time. Week 9 Cyclones Tracker: ————————————- […]
Five good Texans questions with Big Cat Country
This has been the fourth year I have been doing these and Gus Logue of Big Cat Country has been there for all of them. It’s funny how divisional games are always circled on the calendar as big games and yet behind the scenes we seem to get along better than the teams outside of […]
Thursday Night Football Open Thread – Las Vegas Raiders at Denver Broncos
Hello, good evening and welcome to week 10 of the NFL season. Tonight, Thursday Night Football is going west. Well, mountain west anyway. It’s a prime time AFC West matchup that somehow does not include the Chiefs. I don’t know if it was intentional or if someone made a mistake creating the schedule or what. […]
Vote: Are the Texans on the rise?
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. Heading into Week 10, we want to know how you’re feeling after watching the team so […]
Quick Stats: Jacksonville Jaguars vs Houston Texans
Your Houston Texans were hit with several pieces of unfortunate news this week. With the deck already stacked against them in the AFC South, the road ahead is getting rougher. The division leading Indianapolis Colts traded with the New York Jets to land all-pro cornerback Sauce Gardener. For a team already sitting at 7-2, facing […]
Group Think: Lack of success in one score games
The stages of suck moves on to week ten with another subject of focus. With most things, the fanbase is likely in the questioning stage with DeMeco Ryans. No one is ready to pull the plug, but there is some serious side eye going on. One of the hallmarks of Ryans’ first two seasons was […]
Breaking: CJ Stroud OUT Vs. Jaguars, Davis Mills Will Start
If the most recent Houston Texans injury report didn’t provide you with enough bad news for the day, buckle up: head coach DeMeco Ryans announced starting quarterback CJ Stroud currently remains in concussion protocol, and will miss Houston’s Week 10 game against the Jacksonville Jaguars. This comes as a massive gut punch to the entire […]
Houston Texans NFL Power Rankings Week 10: Stagnation
We all have our habits, good and bad. Morning routine, afternoon smoke, evening shower, you could even fit three in a day if you’re feeling lucky! There’s a great variety of hobbies and habits to enrapture yourself in, but many of us reading this website share one – we all choose to watch the Texans […]
Houston Texans 2026 Mock Draft – Addressing Early Needs
The Houston Texans 2025 season is a dumpster fire. C.J. Stroud is in concussion protocol, the offensive line is in the witness protection program, and offensive coordinator Nick Caley needs to find a real estate agent back in New England. At 3-5, the Texans have a 26% chance to make the playoffs according to NFL.com. […]
The Day After the Day After: Fallout from the Houston Texans’ 18-15 loss to the Denver Broncos
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 Week 9: Goal line/Short Yardage offense…Ouuuccchhhh. Perhaps the most painful part of this game comes from the […]
Opening Odds: Week 10 Matchup of the Jacksonville Jaguars at the Houston Texans
Well, the dust is still settling from that less-than-stellar result (at least for the home team) from the Broncos-Texans matchup. Even as we all try to make sense out of what transpired yesterday, the games continue, and we start to turn to the next matchup. To conclude the three-game homestand, the Texans (3-5) will play […]
Cardinals at Cowboys Monday Night Football Discussion Thread
It’s Monday night, and now that the Texans game is over (we do NOT talk about yesterday in this house) it’s time to settle in for more football. Tonight it’s retro day for Monday Night Football, in that before the realignment, this was an NFC East matchup. The ARIZONA CARDINALS of Phoenix, Arizona (and surrounding […]
Value of Things: By the Numbers
There is always more than one way to look at these things. I suppose if we separate ourselves emotionally we can even manage to do that the day after. We predicted struggle earlier this week when we looked at the rankings in team sacks for the Texans’ opponents. We could also look at the fact […]
Sunday Night Football; Seahawks at Commanders discussion thread
It was supposed to go better than this, right? He was supposed to be the hot ticket offensive coordinator candidate. Five field goals. Just five field goals with the same bad offensive line that the Texans have had since the start of the Ryans era. It was supposed to be better. The days of basic […]
RECAP: Texans come up short in tough defensive struggle against Broncos
There was a lot to like in today’s game against the Denver Broncos, but so, SO much more to hate. I don’t even want to recap the Texans’ scoring drives because they relied, exclusively, on the Texans’ patented all-field goal offense. The defense came to play today. And, while the team came up short, they […]
NFL Late Games Open Thread
It’s currently halftime of the Texans game and they still have players left so likely as not they’ll be able to finish the second half. But that’s not it for football. We still got games on CBS and Fox, as prophesized by the folks at 506 Sports. Anyway, the maps. CBS LATE GAMES No map. […]
Denver Broncos at Houston Texans fan discussion
I’d like to direct this question to Sean Payton. This is Patrick with Battle Red Blog, because we’re professionals here; I simply wanted to ask what the bounty is you have on C.J. Stroud. Because I’ll pay double that for your players to NOT try to end our starting quarterback’s career. This is going to […]
Broncos at Texans: How to watch, TV schedule, and more
Welcome back my friends to the roller coaster that is Texans fandom (hat tip to the original fearless leader: Tim). This week, the Texans get to stay home again to welcome the Denver Broncos. There’s been some animosity between these two teams in recent years so this could be a really interesting game. Or it’s […]
Five good Texans questions with Mile High Report
The Denver Broncos are one of the under the radar great stories in the NFL this season. Bo Nix is playing even better this season than he did last season and the Broncos lead the NFL in sacks through week eight of the season. Ian St. Clair of Mile High Report was kind of enough […]
Value of Things: “Fixed” Texans offense
One of the things that old-time hard hitting journalists did was stick to a routine until the situation absolutely warranted it. Those situations would be called “special comments.” I am not a hard hitting journalist and barely qualify as a professional one, but I am taking the opportunity to throw out a special comment. DeMeco […]
Houston Texans vs. Denver Broncos: Nico Collins Returns to Practice
The Houston Texans are fresh off a dominant victory over the well-coached San Francisco 49ers and are looking to keep that momentum rolling as they return home to face the Denver Broncos. Quarterback C.J. Stroud took what the 49ers’ defense gave him and operated the offense at an extremely high level — something that hasn’t […]
Thursday Night Football Open Thread – Baltimore Ravens at Miami Dolphins
Hello, good evening and welcome to week nine of the NFL season. Last year, or even two years ago, this game would have been a prime-time matchup you circled on the calendar. Lamar Jackson and the Ravens vs. Mike McDaniel’s offense? Yes, please and may I have another? Cut to today and the Ravens look […]
Texans Reacts Survey Week 9
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. Heading into Week 9, we want to know how you’re feeling after watching the team so […]
Eye of the Cyclones: Higgins and Noel Week 8 Review
Welcome to week 8 of the Cyclone tracker! This is where we follow our resident weather themed duo in rookie receivers Jayden Higgins and Jaylin Noel, both out of Iowa State (hence, the “Cyclone” twins). As always, there will be analysis, projections, commentary, and relevant updates that happen in real time. Week 8 Cyclones Tracker: […]
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