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 on Sundays. We all had a moment where we sat in front of the television and decided that this football team was for us. Every Sunday, a new generation of Houston Texans fans are born, eye affixed to the glistening Battle Red and deep steel...

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. That probability was at 45% chance before the loss to the Denver Broncos on Sunday. With such low odds and a grueling schedule left to play, it’s time to peer into the future and look into the future state of the Houston Texans.

Their top...

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 first half, when the Texans, holding all the momentum, could not score a TD in two drives that had them inside the Denver 2-yard line. The first time saw three straight running plays (one RB dive to Chubb and two FB dives to Brooks(???)). A...

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 host to their division rival, the Jacksonville Jaguars (5-3). While more analysis of this pending matchup is forthcoming, here are the opening lines for that game:

Generally, home teams get a 3-point advantage, so being favored by only 1.5 seems to indicate that the bookmakers...

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 areas) were in the National Football Conference’s Eastern Division. The one with all the other teams that annoy us. No, not the AFC South, I mean the Giants, Eagles and all them. Football in the before times was weird.

Here’s what you need to know...

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 that four of the five teams that have beaten the Texans are currently 6-2 and all of the teams that have beaten them have winning records. So, we could always fall back on the fact that the schedule maker wasn’t kind to them.

That being...

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 losing were supposed to be over. But, apparently not. Oh, yeah, there’s also Sunday Night Football going on.

Here’s what you need to know to watch tonight’s game:

Who: Seattle Seahawks (5-2) at Washington Commanders (3-5)

What: Sunday Night Football

Where: Northwest Stadium, Andover, MD...

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 managed to make Bo Nix’s life really difficult for 3 and a half quarters.

And then the Denver Broncos attempted to murder C.J. Stroud; and that’s when I discovered that attempted murder isn’t against the rules in the NFL because the referee pulled the flag...

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. Only one late game from CBS today:

Kansas City Chiefs at Buffalo Bills (Announcers: Jim Nantz, Tony Romo; Referee: Carl Cheffers)

FOX SINGLE GAMES

Red: EARLY GAME
Blue: EARLY GAME
Green: EARLY GAME
Yellow: New Orleans Saints at Los Angeles Rams *(Announcers: Kenny Albert, Jonathan...

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 be a defensive battle. And the Texans better be up to it, because I don’t know if I can live in a world where a team I care about can lose to someone named Bo Nix.

Hee hee, No Bix.

Yes, I’m easily amused.

Anyway,...

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 going to be a nightmare. There is no other option.

At any rate, at least it’s not in Denver where they do that stupid “incomplete” chant.

But will you be able to watch the game at home on Sunday? The fine folks at 506 Sports...

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 to carve out a few minutes from his busy schedule to answer some of our questions. The game is a huge game for both clubs. The Broncos are trying to hold off the hot Kansas City Chiefs to keep a hold on their lead in...