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Hello, you have reached the voicemail of Patrick.H and the Battle Red Blog masthead. We can’t come to the phone right now because your Houston Texans are off this week. So I’m kicking back, sipping pina coladas*, laying in a hammock on the beach**, and contemplating how the Texans will do in week 7 against the Seattle Seahawks.

But we’re not leaving y’all completely in the lurch this week. It would be incredibly rude of me not to share with you what games will be on in the greater Houston area as well as the rest of the Texan...

As many of you are likely aware, Google searches are … different these days.

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Back in August, the tech giant debuted a feature called “Preferred Sources.” It’s a way for Google to prominently feature the results...

Cody Stoots has been an independent source for Houston Texans news and commentary for almost two years now. The former drive time radio host on 97.5 FM has his own site over at Houston Football. He’s been kind enough to join us before for five questions and with Week 6 being the bye week for your Houston Texans, this seemed like a perfect to catch up with him and get his impressions on what has been going on with the local team.

Obviously, the general tenor of these questions changed dramatically following the Texans 44-10 drubbing of the Baltimore Ravens....