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The pressure will be on the Texans' front seven to shut down the Browns' running game.

NFL Week 2: Texans-Browns — Four Things To Watch For

By Sean Pendergast

Sep 17, 2021

Well, that was an exciting Week 1 of the NFL season, if you're a Houston Texans fan. Not only did the Texans go out and throttle the Jacksonville Jaguars last Sunday, not only did they actually look well coached for the first time in years, but the rest of the...

University of Houston fans just saw their season tickets get a lot more fun.

Four Reasons the New Big XII Will Be Really, Really Fun

By Sean Pendergast

Sep 16, 2021

Last week, the Big XII conference, on the heels of a tumultuous summer that saw the University of Texas and Oklahoma University put in their notice to leave for the Southeastern Conference, extended invitations to four schools — BYU, Central Florida, Cincinnati, and, YES, the University of Houston — to...

Out with the old (John Wall, right) and in with the new (Christian Wood, left).

John Wall and Rockets Agree to Part Ways: Four Thoughts

By Jeff Balke

Sep 15, 2021

On Tuesday, NBA sources reported that the Rockets had met with point guard John Wall and the two sides agreed that the team would work with Wall to find him a new home after just one season with Houston. With four picks in the first round of this year's draft...

Peyton Manning was highly entertaining on Monday night's alternate ESPN feed, but there is room for improvement.

Four Suggestions For ESPN's Monday Night Football "Manning Cast"

By Sean Pendergast

Sep 15, 2021

When Monday Night Football was created back in September of 1970, it was with the idea of giving the popular sport of football its own prime time platform, on a night normally reserved for sitcoms and television dramas. We know now, the thirst for football in the United States is...

David Culley accomplished some things on Sunday that have been a long time coming for the Texans.

Four Negative Trends the Houston Texans Reversed on Sunday

By Sean Pendergast

Sep 14, 2021

There was a lot to like in the Houston Texans' 37-21 thrashing of the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday. The offense was nice and balanced (289 yards passing, 160 yards rushing), the defense was disruptive enough to rattle Jaguars rookie quarterback Trevor Lawrence, and most of all, the entire second half...

(Some) Fear and (a Little) Loathing at the Texans Game

By Jesse Sendejas Jr.

Sep 13, 2021

I was wide awake at 4 in the morning on game day, a full hour before my alarm was set to buzz me into motion toward NRG Stadium, home of the Houston Texans. Over the past few seasons, many questions have circled the local NFL team. But, lying in bed...

Tyrod Taylor did something Deshaun Watson could never do — win a season opener.

NFL Week 1: Texans 37, Jaguars 21 — Four Winners, Four Losers

By Sean Pendergast

Sep 13, 2021

For the last several months, the specter of Deshaun Watson has hung over the Houston Texans. Whether it was in his actual physical presence at Texans practice, or whether it was in the headlines with various turning points on his legal and professional situations, the biggest Texans topics have centered...

Tyrod Taylor will become the eighth Week 1 starting quarterback in Texans history.

NFL Week 1: Texans-Jaguars — Four Things To Watch For

By Sean Pendergast

Sep 10, 2021

One of the toughest jobs in sports is trying to come up with a way to successfully market a losing franchise to a beleaguered fanbase. On a scale of one to ten, the Houston Texans' marketing department have had been tasked with a mission that has a difficulty level of...

If the Texans are going to exceed expectations in 2021, they will need Tyrod Taylor healthy for 17 games.

How Do the Houston Texans Get To Seven Wins?

By Sean Pendergast

Sep 9, 2021

Here in Houston, we can wring our hands over the Deshaun Watson situation all we want to, and go about in pity for ourselves, knowing that with Watson's career here likely over, the ceiling for the Texans is somewhere around "pleasantly mediocre." The truth of the matter is that this...

Josh Allen's 2020 season provides the template for picking an MVP dark horse in 2021.

Choosing the Best NFL MVP Dark Horse Candidate

By Sean Pendergast

Sep 8, 2021

One fun way to bet on the NFL, if you're not into the acute stress of betting week to week is to find an MVP candidate and throw a sawbuck or two down on a futures bet for said candidate to take home MVP hardware. It's a long play that...

J.J. Watt will be in a different uniform next season, with revenge on his mind.

Former Houston Texans 2021 Revenge Power Rankings

By Sean Pendergast

Sep 7, 2021

No NFL team had more new faces on its 90-man roster coming into training camp than the Houston Texans. Between free agents and rookies, there were 50 new players on the roster. The final 53-man roster, constructed a week ago, had 30 new faces getting ready for Week 1. When...

The University of Houston may be joining their Texas brethren soon in the Big XII.

Four Thoughts on Big XII Expansion Welcoming UH

By Sean Pendergast

Sep 6, 2021

Entering the college football season of 2016, the University of Houston was at the tailed end of a multiyear campaign to try to gain entry into the Big XII. Approval of their Big XII status would have meant a bump up to a Power Five conference and a windfall of...

Spencer Rattler could be Lincoln Riley's latest Heisman finalist.

College Football Week 1: Guide To Scouting Future Houston Texans QBs

By Sean Pendergast

Sep 3, 2021

It was about a year ago this weekend that Deshaun Watson signed his mega deal, a four-year contract extension worth almost $160 million, which at the time was the biggest contract in league history for any human being not named "Patrick Mahomes." When a team signs a player to a...

Deshaun Watson is part of one of the biggest QB soap operas in the NFL right now.

Deshaun Watson Is On the Texans' Roster, So Now What?

By Sean Pendergast

Sep 2, 2021

There is always plenty of quarterback drama swirling around in the NFL. The NFL is like a family with 32 siblings, and like any big family, if there are enough siblings or cousins, there will inevitably be drama with a few of them. Cam Newton was cut by the Patriots...

There was some celebrating going on with some bubble players yesterday, as the Texans cut their roster down to 53 players.

Four Thoughts on the Houston Texans Final Cuts Down To 53 Players

By Sean Pendergast

Sep 1, 2021

Nick Caserio's first training camp as Houston Texans general manager is in the books, ending, for all intents and purposes, on Tuesday afternoon with the final trimming of the roster from 80 players down to the requisite count of 53 players. I think it's safe to say that Caserio never...

Bill O'Brien reshaped the Texans two years ago today, and inevitably, that was the beginning of the end.

Bill O'Brien's 2019 Swap Meet Saturday: Two Years Later, Where Are They Now?

By Sean Pendergast

Aug 31, 2021

The Texans enter the 2021 season thought to be among the worst, if not THE actual worst, team in the NFL this year. The roster is a smattering of try-hard veterans with very few young building blocks, and maybe four or five players who would start on half the teams...

NIck Caserio has a busy couple days coming up, and some difficult roster decisions to make.

NFL Preseason Week 3: Buccaneers 23, Texans 16 — Four Winners, Four Losers

By Sean Pendergast

Aug 29, 2021

All week long, leading up to Saturday night's game between the defensing Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Houston Texans, we were excited to find out just how many of the things the 2021 Texans were doing unexpectedly well at training camp would translate against a good team...

The Texans will run out of the tunnel for the first time in the David Culley Era.

NFL Preseason Week 3: Buccaneers-Texans — Four Things To Watch For

By Sean Pendergast

Aug 27, 2021

On Saturday, the Houston Texans play their first home game of the 2021 campaign, the third and final preseason game of one of the more surreal training camps in my 15-season history of covering the team. No J.J. Watt, Deshaun Watson rendered to "reluctant bystander" status, and 50 new faces...

Alabama and the SEC are in a political standoff with the Big Ten, Pac 12, and ACC.

Big XII Left Stranded After College Football Alliance Announcement

By Sean Pendergast

Aug 26, 2021

College conference realignment has been front burner college sports news for the last decade, but it's been going on forever. The Southwest Conference was splintered into a million pieces back in the mid-'90s with the (now, quite ironic) formation of the Big XII. In 2003, the ACC raided the Big...

Davis Mills has shown steady improvement throughout Texans training camp.

Houston Texans 53-Man Roster Prediction, Version 3.0

By Sean Pendergast

Aug 25, 2021

The Houston Texans trimmed their roster down to 80 players earlier this week, per league rules, and the continuing theme is that Nick Caserio is cleaning out all of the old, fairly useless furniture from the Bill O'Brien Era. The first round of cuts a week ago saw 2020 fifth...

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