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Photo by Leslie Plaza Johnson/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images At 5-2, the Texans have a lot of work to do The off-season hope and dream is a team won’t have to rely heavily on its depth chart until late in the season. If a roster can avoid the injury bug deep into the schedule, they can usually have post season success. Unfortunately for the Houston Texans, the bug … [Read more...] about Houston Texans injuries contribute to loss against Packers

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images Low in quality, high in drama, full of pain…let’s revisit. 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 7: Photo by Larry Radloff/Icon … [Read more...] about The Day After the Day After: The fallout from the Houston Texans’ loss at Green Bay

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images Opening Odds and Predictions for Colts vs. Texans At the midway of the Houston Texans’ quest for the franchise’s first Lombardi Trophy, they stand 5-2, licking their wounds from a narrow defeat up north against the Green Bay Packers. Despite the defeat, Houston is off to it’s best start since 2012 and showed some serious moxie on … [Read more...] about Indianapolis Colts vs. Houston Texans: Opening Odds

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images An undermanned Texans squad fights hard but comes up short. All of Sunday was a conundrum. The end result was predictable, but the path to get to that end result wasn’t. Coming into the game, the Texans were missing five of their defensive starters. It showed, as the Packers were able to gash the Texans up the middle with Josh Jacobs … [Read more...] about Houston Texans lose a heartbreaker in Lambeau

Denny Simmons / The Tennessean / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Because we can’t have a week of football without Aaron Rodgers playing a primetime game. It’s Sunday night. It’s football. It’s Sunday Night Football. Tonight we have a game that people are calling one of the football games of week 7. The New York Jets cross state lines into Pennsylvania to play the … [Read more...] about Sunday Night Football Open Thread: New York Jets at Pittsburgh Steelers