Week Two of the NFL slate features the reining AFC and NFC South champions on Monday Night Football. The Houston Texan open as 2.5 point favorites against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Buccaneers are coming off their Week One victory over NFC South rival Atlanta Falcons where QB Baker Mayfield threw for three touchdowns including two to rookie WR Emeka Egbuka. Conversely, the Texans looked middling in their loss to the NFC-West winning Los Angeles Rams

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers (+2.5)

Analysis: Based on how the first game of the season went for the Bucs and...

I thought for a while about the best way to begin this introduction piece. Do I start with a joke? How about a monologue? Or, would the people want a wee lad’s tale of self-discovery that led to this exact moment in time where he joins a misfit bunch on an adventure to talk ball and maybe eat some Texas BBQ along the way?

It sounds like I just described the plot of The Goonies or Lord of the Rings. Regardless, the best way to approach this might just be to keep things simple and genuine. Hi, my name is...

We’re back, Texans fans! After what seemed like a journey through the sports wilderness since the Super Bowl last February, we’ve finally arrived to week 1! The storylines wrote themselves this week, as the Texans came into SoFi Stadium to face the Rams and make an early statement to being their new campaign.

C.J. Stroud made his first start in his home state, facing off against veteran gun-slinger Matthew Stafford. The story of this game would be, how will the Texans respond with a number of key players out for their week 1 matchup? On the Rams side, Stafford has...

Good afternoon all you guys, gals and non-binary pals and welcome to week 1 of the NFL season.

We’re back. It’s like coming up for air after having spent the last five months underwater; which honestly is probably not a great similar since staying underwater for five months will leave you will a severe case of death

The Texans start their quest for new, loftier playoff ambitions in Hollywood where they take on the Los Angeles Rams in the Texans’ first of two trips to SoFi Stadium this season.

But you don’t need me to tell you about the game...

The 2025 NFL Regular Season is finally here, and it’s time to rejoice that our beloved pigskin-based sport has returned! The Houston Texans, just like last year, have Super Bowl-sized expectations entering the 2025 season. In their very first game after a divisional round exit to the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2024 NFL playoffs, the Texans will travel to SoFi Stadium to square off against the Los Angeles Rams to kick off the 2025 NFL regular season. Texans quarterback CJ Stroud and new offensive coordinator Nick Caley seek to get the offense back on track, and get the Texans...

Hey gang, as you might have noticed, the Texans are playing in Cal-i-for-ni-a today which means we’ll have a Texans game that doesn’t start at noon. I can’t remember the last time this happened for the Texans. Probably some time last season, it doesn’t matter. With that in mind, let’s take a look at which appetizer games will be available to you before the main course that is Houston Texans football courtesy of 506 Sports.

CBS EARLY GAMES

Red: Pittsburgh Steelers at New York Jets (Announcers: Ian Eagle, J.J. Watt; Referee: Bill Vinovich)
Blue: Miami Dolphins at Indianapolis Colts *(Announcers:...

It’s the beginning of the 2025 NFL Season! To celebrate this momentous occurrence, I’ve decided to rank all 32 NFL teams and added my own personal thought to each team. So, without further ado, here is my Power Ranking for the beginning of the regular season:

32. New Orleans Saints

It’s a quarterback’s league, and the New Orleans Saints have the worst group of the bunch. Unproven and sloppy quarterback Spencer Rattler was named the Week one starter, which is more of an indictment on their roster than it is commendation of Rattler. They still do have workhorse tailback...

The Texans are kicking off their 2025 season in Los Angeles, against the Rams, and are looking to start off on the right foot. Here is a look at Friday’s injury report:

FULL PARTICIPATION:

• OT Cam Robinson (Illness)
• OT Blake Fisher (Hamstring)

LIMITED PARTICIPATION:

• OG Ed Ingram QUESTIONABLE

DID NOT PARTICIPATE:

• WR Christian Kirk (Hamstring) OUT
• WR Braxton Berrios (Hamstring) OUT

Houston is set to lose their starting wide receiver in Christian Kirk, along with his backup, Braxton Berrios for at least this weekend. Kirk is expected to miss around two weeks,...

While the AFC West hasn’t quite reached the same level of ubiquity as the NFC East has, wherein their teams play a prime time game literally every week irrespective of whether the teams in that division are any good or not, it is definitely making a sincere effort at doing so. Today, after the defeat of the Cowboys in the official kickoff to the season, we go now to wintry Sao Paulo, Brazil to play the second football game in South America.

It’s the defending AFC champion Kansas City Chiefs taking on the Los Angeles Chargers tonight on YouTube.

This...

We are days away from the Houston Texans’ 2025 campaign. They face a tough combination of NFC and AFC West along with three other divisional winners. This slog of a schedule, a new offensive line, and an unproven offensive coordinator make for a highly volatile prediction of the season ahead.

And that’s exactly why I proposed a list of questions to the writers to assess their excitement before the season officially kicks off Sunday.

What do you predict for the Texans this season?

1. What is the Texans record?
2. If they make the playoffs, far do the Texans go?...

The 2025 season is finally upon us and we begin with a regular feature we do around here that we lovingly call five questions. It’s something we like to do exclusively at SBNation where we ask our brothers and sisters at the other team’s site five questions about their team, so we can learn more about our opponents. Since we are all one big happy family at SBNation, these are usually cordial in nature and we tend to get along pretty well even if the teams on the field don’t. This one is no different. Evan Craig from **[Turf Show...

By now the way I feel about having to be forced to watch ALL the NFC East games on prime time television should be pretty clear. I don’t like it. It’s obnoxious, and the other 9/10 of the country tuning in are just watching because it’s football.

But there is one good thing about the NFL’s insistence on running an NFC East prime time game every week from now until the heat death of the universe. Sometimes one of those non-“Dallas” teams goes and wins a Super Bowl. Which means that “Dallas,” because it’s always “Dallas,” has to travel to...