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Jets 21, Texans 14: How To Lose a Game In Ten Plays

Jets 21, Texans 14: How To Lose a Game In Ten Plays

NFL Week 12: Jets 21, Texans 14 — Four Winners, Four Losers

NFL Week 12: Jets 21, Texans 14 — Four Winners, Four Losers

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NFL Week 12: Jets-Texans — Four Things To Watch For

By Sean Pendergast
Nov 26, 2021

For just the second time this season, the Houston Texans got to prepare for a game in the afterglow of a win, and for the second time this season, this Sunday, they will get a chance to build an actual wining streak. Multiple games in a row, emerging victorious! Wow!...
Two Houston Astros Named to All-MLB Second Team

By Sean Pendergast
Nov 25, 2021

For a team that came within two games of winning the World Series, and made it to the American League Championship Series for a fifth consecutive postseason, the post-postseason awards circuit has been eerily quiet for the Houston Astros. As opposed to years past, when we've seen MVP awards and...
9 Things in Houston Sports to Be Thankful For

By Jeff Balke
Nov 24, 2021

The Astros are done for the year. The Rockets are in the midst of one of the worst losing streaks...since last season (ugh). And the Texans won a game, but it was only the second win of the season. It seems as if what was a few years ago thought...
Intriguing Scenarios Still In Play For 2021 College Football Playoff

By Sean Pendergast
Nov 24, 2021

I will admit that I predicted one of the byproducts of COVID for the 2020 season in football, and its economic impact on collegiate athletics programs during the pandemic year, was that we would see an expanded College Football Playoff. With more playoff games came more money, so an expansion,...
Houston Texans 22, Tennessee Titans 13: How To Steal A Game in Ten Plays

By Sean Pendergast
Nov 23, 2021

As many of you know, in recent years, when the Houston Texans have lost a close game that has involved many twist, turns, and poor chess moves by the head coach, I would write a feature called "How To Lose a Game in Ten Plays," a nod to one of...
NFL Week 11: Texans 22, Titans 13 — Four Winners, Four Losers

By Sean Pendergast
Nov 22, 2021

This 2021 NFL season has been a strange one, to say the least. it feels like the torch for "best team in the league" has been passed at least a half dozen times in the last couple months, and on a micro level, the AFC has certainly been rife with...
NFL Week 11: Texans-Titans — Four Things To Watch For

By Sean Pendergast
Nov 19, 2021

Prior to the Houston Texans' bye week this past weekend, whenever confronted with the question of "What is wrong with your football team?", inevitably head coach David Culley's answers would circle back to two things — turnovers and penalties. In other words, if the Texans could just stop turning the...
Justin Verlander Re-Signs With the Astros: Four Thoughts

By Jeff Balke
Nov 18, 2021

On Wednesday, Justin Verlander agreed to a one-year, $25 million deal to return the Astros in 2022. The deal includes a player option for 2023. Verlander, the team's ace since he was acquired from the Detroit Tigers at the deadline in 2017, missed all but one game in 2020 and...
Houston Texans: 2022 Pro Bowl Ballot — Four Yeas, Four Nays

By Sean Pendergast
Nov 18, 2021

It's been a gradual process throughout the last year, getting back some of the routines and staples of our sporting life. Fans coming back to stadiums has been a big deal across all sports, and the schedules and formats for each sport resuming in pre-COVID fashion have both been a...
Five Sports Things to Do This Winter While Your Teams Suck

By Jeff Balke
Nov 17, 2021

The Astros season is over. So are the seasons for the Dynamo and Dash if you are a soccer enthusiast. And while they may still be playing games, for all intents and purposes, the Texans and Rockets are done as well and watching them alternates between frustration and outright heartbreak...
Houston Texans: The Race for the No. 1 Overall Pick in 2022 Draft

By Sean Pendergast
Nov 17, 2021

It's hard to believe that less than two years ago, the Texans held a 24-0 lead in Kansas City over the Chiefs in a playoff game, and were three quarters of football away from their first AFC title game in team history. We all know how that wound up, but...
Four Second Half Predictions for the Houston Texans

By Sean Pendergast
Nov 16, 2021

When you're a fan of an NFL team, and your most memorable week of the NFL season was the bye week, well ... you might be a Houston Texans fan. That was the case for me and my wife Amy (an original Texans season ticket holder, if you need her),...
Houston Texans' 2021 First Half Superlatives

By Sean Pendergast
Nov 15, 2021

The Houston Texans did something this past weekend that we haven't been able to claim for over two months — they did NOT lose an NFL game. Granted, yes, the Texans were on a bye this past weekend, but still — THEY DID NOT LOSE. The bye week is often...
Houston Texans Midseason State of the Team

By Sean Pendergast
Nov 12, 2021

When a new general manager and new head coach are brought into an NFL organization, most of the time, it's because the previous regime failed, and failed miserably. Thus, anyone with a brain knew that this 2021 NFL season would likely be a lost season here in the city of...
Five Areas of Growth to Look for From the Rockets This Season

By Jeff Balke
Nov 12, 2021

"Growth." It was the one thing coach Stephen Silas said he was most looking for from his young roster of players that includes four rookies and a guy starting at point guard for the first time in his career. As we've seen from the 1-9 start, it's been messy and...
Houston Astros GM James Click's 2021 Report Card

By Sean Pendergast
Nov 11, 2021

As the Houston Astros' championship level window has evolved and progressed over the last half decade or so, through various forms of attrition, there have been big shoes to fill. When Gerrit Cole left in free agency, and Justin Verlander lost his 2020 and 2021 seasons to injury, Framber Valdez...
Which Free Agents Will Be Back With the Houston Astros?

By Sean Pendergast
Nov 10, 2021

Free agency officially began in Major League Baseball this past Sunday, and with labor strife possibly looming for the sport upon expiration of the Collective Bargaining Agreement on December 1, this will be one of the more intriguing free agency seasons in recent history. Will teams try their best to...
Vegas Odds on Where Carlos Correa Plays in 2022

By Sean Pendergast
Nov 9, 2021

With the World Series in the rear view mirror, the Astros and the rest of baseball now rapidly turn their attention to the offseason. That's the big difference between the business of football and the business of baseball — in football, you get about six weeks to breathe. In baseball,...
4 Reasons the Astros Should Do Anything to Re-Sign Carlos Correa, and 4 Reasons They Shouldn't

By Jeff Balke
Nov 9, 2021

Should they or shouldn't they? For some fans, no matter what the cost, the Astros must keep Carlos Correa. But, judging by their five-year, $32 million-per-year offer, the team is not expecting their superstar shortstop to return. Correa, 27, reportedly wants a deal over nine or ten total seasons. Money...
NFL Week 9: Dolphins 17, Texans 9 — Four Winners, Four Losers

By Sean Pendergast
Nov 8, 2021

It would look a lot better with Tyrod Taylor at quarterback, we told ourselves. Tyrod Taylor gave the Texans the best chance to win on Sunday, David Culley would tell us. I chose to believe all of that, the improved watchability and the improved odds of winning on Sunday in...