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• Week 10 scouting report: Houston Texans close to being big AFC threat

Brad Penner-Imagn Images Take a look at the Lions’ Week 10 opponent: The Houston Texans. A good team with a few wrinkles in their game that makes them a year away from being a Super Bowl threat. With the Detroit Lions coming into this week 7-1, they are back under the lights of primetime. Coming off a big NFC North win against the Green Bay Packers, the Lions head on down to Texas again, b...2024
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• Previewing the Jets’ Opposition: Houston Texans

Photo by Al Pereira/Getty Images The New York Jets try to stop their losing streak on Thursday Night Football The New York Jets have lost five in a row and are about to face a Houston Texans team that has won four out of their last five. When was the last time anyone won in that situation? Funnily enough, it was last season when the Jets entered their December clash with Houston in exactly...2024
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• Texans face Ravens in DeMeco Ryans, C.J. Stroud debut

Thomas Shea-USA TODAY Sports How are fans reacting to the Week 7 loss to the Packers? Week 8 is a huge week for the Houston Texans as they meet division rivals the Indianapolis Colts for the second time. A victory essentially puts the Texans up by two and a half games because of the head to head tiebreaker. A loss drops them to even. Before we get there though, let’s take a look back at th...2024
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• Houston Texans NFL Power Rankings: Week 8

Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images Where are the Texans ranked after their loss to the Packers? Welcome back to the NFL Power Rankings! Unlike many years at Battle Red Blog, this year’s Power Rankings has seen the Houston Texans either maintaining or improving their already high ranking. This post follows just the second loss of the season, a heartbreaking loss to the Green Bay Packer...2024
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• Houston Texans News: Texans rookie gets praised for performance against Buffalo

Troy Taormina-Imagn Images Your one-stop shop for Houston Texans, local sports, and news from around the league for Thursday, October 10, 2024. Houston Texans News DeMeco Ryans on Nico Collins: He’s the best receiver in league, chance for someone to step up (ProFootballTalk) Houston Texans Rookie Earns Praise After First Career Start (Sports Illustrated) Houston Texans Offer Update on Inju...2024
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• Battle Red Blog Groupthink: Offensive and Defensive Line Changes

Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images The blog got together to discuss the woes and ails of the Texans offensive and defensive front lines. Another close victory. It’s an early theme in the DeMeco Ryans era... one that’s getting old, quickly. The most impactful theme in this young season is penalties on the offensive line and a leaky defensive line. The defense has received less of the pub...2024
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• Week 10 scouting report: Houston Texans close to being big AFC threat
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• Previewing the Jets’ Opposition: Houston Texans
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• Texans face Ravens in DeMeco Ryans, C.J. Stroud debut
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• Houston Texans NFL Power Rankings: Week 8
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• Battle Red Blog Groupthink: Offensive and Defensive Line Changes
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• RECAP: Texans defeat Colts, 29-27

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images Houston has wrapped up their first victory of the 2024 season! What a statement to start the 2024 season on! It didn’t matter how many times the Colts got the ball. It didn’t matter how many times they tried the hand it off to Jonathan Taylor. It didn’t matter how many explosive plays Anthony Richardson cooked up, the Houston Texans just kept answeri...2024
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• BRB Groupthink: Houston Texans Season Predictions

Photo by Ric Tapia/Getty Images Gathering the Battle Red Blog writers to predict the Texans record and Pro Bowlers The season is upon us! The roster is set, the players are in the building, and the Colts are on deck. It’s been most exciting offseason ever for the Houston Texans. From a strong draft class to a phenomenal free agency period, the Texans are primed to make a run. The excitemen...2024
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• The Value of Things: Houston Texans Final Roster Analysis

Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports Are Nick Caserio and DeMeco Ryans finished putting together the roster? Sometimes it pays to wait a minute and breathe before commenting on big news like the 53 man schedule. The Houston Texans don’t open play for another week and a half, so there is also time for the roster to shift some. It is easy to poke a few holes in the current version of the 53 and pr...2024
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• Houston Texans Top Roster Surprises and Snubs

Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images Analyzing who made the Texans roster and who was rebuffed It’s the day after the 2024 roster cuts and boy was yesterday a wild ride. With so many short-term injuries, there was zero sense of confidence. The final Rosterology, the holy grail for all things roster analysis, prediction, and conjecture, missed a staggering number of predictions due to inju...2024
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• Houston Texans Final Rosterology: Predicting Texans 53-Man Roster

Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images We’ve arrived at the final Rosterology of the offseason. The regular season is but days away and the roster is being finalized as we speak. It has easily been one of the most competitive training camps for the fewest number of spots. Last season, only 20-25 players were considered roster locks. This season that number was closer to 40, leaving only 13 spots...2024
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• Hair of the Dog Week 18: Houston Texans @ Indianapolis Colts

Photo by Michael Allio/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Where the playoffs began, and it was the start of the best weekend this decade for the Texans. One could argue that this might have been the best weekend in Houston Texans’ football history. Certainly this was the best weekend since 2020. Saturday night, the Texans and Colts battle it out in a winner-goes-forward-loser-goes-home slugf...2024
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"This time it was a clean pocket for Flacco, but his telegraphed throw to Harrison Bryant was read by linebacker Christian Harris, who joined the pick-6 party."

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"The two of them will work alongside second-year pro Christian Harris and veteran Christian Kirksey in the middle linebacker rotation for the Texans."

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"The Texans want to see more of rookie linebacker Christian Harris, their third-round draft choice."

• Week 10 scouting report: Houston Texans close to being big AFC threat
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• Previewing the Jets’ Opposition: Houston Texans
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• Houston Texans NFL Power Rankings: Week 8
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• Houston Texans News: Texans rookie gets praised for performance against Buffalo
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• RECAP: Texans defeat Colts, 29-27
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• BRB Groupthink: Houston Texans Season Predictions
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• The Value of Things: Houston Texans Final Roster Analysis
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• Houston Texans Top Roster Surprises and Snubs
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• Five Big Takeaways from Houston Texans’ Victory Against the Pittsburgh Steelers

Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports Where do the Texans stand halfway through the preseason? On Friday, the Houston Texans came to my very own backyard when they arrived in Pittsburgh to play the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first full week of preseason action. This was their second of four preseason games, leading up to one of the most anticipated regular seasons in Houston Texans’ history. B...2024
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• Houston Texans Training Camp Observations and Analysis Through Day Three

Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images Combining the biggest news and notes so far in the Houston Texans 2024 Training Camp Houston Texans Training Camp has liftoff and boy did they start with a bang. From the front office clearing out three rookies (including one draft pick) to adding four new players to the roster, they’ve been busy raising the competition at camp. It’s been extremely clear; t...2024
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• Week 10 scouting report: Houston Texans close to being big AFC threat
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• Previewing the Jets’ Opposition: Houston Texans
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• Texans face Ravens in DeMeco Ryans, C.J. Stroud debut
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• Houston Texans NFL Power Rankings: Week 8
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• RECAP: Texans defeat Colts, 29-27
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• The Day After the Day After (+1 day): The end of the Houston Texans’ preseason

Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images Four preseason games down...17 regular season and X playoffs games (if all goes to plan) to go. The Day After the Day After (with some slush built in); a chance to get past the hot takes/emotions immediately following the game. With the 17-15 win over the Los Angeles Rams, the Houston Texans close out their fourth straight winning record in the preseason. ...2024
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• Five Big Takeaways from Houston Texans’ Victory Against the Pittsburgh Steelers
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• The day after the day after (plus some days): The first two Houston Texans preseason games

Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images What have we learned with the benefit of hindsight? The Day After The Day After (and then some): A time, after some clarity and the initial heat from instant hot takes simmers down, to relook at some things. Given that it is preseason, assessments and data points could and should be taken with a grain of salt, but a few things that stand out from the f...2024
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• The Value of Things: Texans schedule by the numbers

Detroit Free Press-USA TODAY Sports A week by week blow by blow breakdown of the schedule. You’ll have to forgive our indulgences as each of us here at Battle Red Blog go out on our own and do a blow by blow of the coming season. The release of the schedule is one of the biggest events in the NFL calendar and that by itself is just bizarre when you think about it. Goodness knows that no on...2024
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• The steal of the Houston Texans’ draft?

Photo by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images Which rookie will have the biggest impact in 2024? At this stage, there are a lot of opinions touted as fact as to which rookie will have the biggest impact on the 2024 Houston Texans. The only hard truth is that every year, across the NFL, a rookie rises up that most didn’t expect and someone else many thought would rule the gridiron chokes and falls ou...2024
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• RECAP: Texans defeat Colts, 29-27
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• Five Big Takeaways from Houston Texans’ Victory Against the Pittsburgh Steelers
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• Houston Texans Defensive Depth Tiers

Photo by Ryan Kang/Getty Images Stacking up Houston’s defense heading into training camp While the offense feels generally unchanged, the defense underwent significant changes from last season. Houston lost several key starters due to free agency and trades. It’s the natural order of things... we’re just not used to other teams actually desiring our talent. The Texans enter training camp ...2024
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• Houston Texans New Faces: Azeez Al-Shaair

Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images It’s summertime. The content is slow, the roster is all but set, and the drama of the regular season is still several months away. This gives us the perfect opportunity to familiarize ourselves with several of the key new faces donning new Texans uniforms this season. This will be a weekly column posted every Thursday barring procrasti...2024
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• Poll: What position should the Houston Texans target early in the draft?

Thomas Shea-USA TODAY Sports Which group gets a youth shot? It’s the first day of April, and aside from the played out jokes/pranks/silliness that arrives today, April 1st also means: it’s NFL DRAFT MONTH! And, in the vein of illusions and misdirections, here’s the list of current Houston Texans’ draft picks: From ProFootballNetwork Houston Texans Draft Picks by Round in 2024 Round 2, ...2024
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• Hair of the Dog, Divisional Playoff Round: Houston Texans @ Baltimore Ravens

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images The season that went full circle, beginning and ending in Baltimore Sometimes in life, you actually do get symmetry. Where things start, they also manage to end. The idea of the circle can be appealing. The whole Ying/Yang and smooth start/finish...there is something that strikes a chord in the human psyche. However, there is a lot in life that is far fr...2024
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• Lamar Jackson and Todd Monken flipped the script in Ravens-Texans

Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports Some smart second-half adjustments helped the Ravens pull away from the Texans Saturday afternoon the crowd at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore was loud, but also nervous. This was a script they had seen before. Their beloved Ravens were the top seed in the AFC and were coming off a bye week. Lamar Jackson was playing at an MVP level, but an upstart team from t...2024
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• Pre-Snap Reads 1/17: Seahawks Special Teams unit finish in top-10

Photo by Jane Gershovich/Getty Images Read! A bright moment in the weird, wonky, swerving-in-between-lanes 2023 season from our Seattle Seahawks was a special teams unit that looked rather impressive throughout. If you remove a few questionable decisions by DeeJay Dallas, and literally a kick or two from Jason Myers, the ‘Hawks special teams unit played rather exceptionally. In a season ...2024
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• Hair of the Dog: Cleveland Browns @ Houston Texans

Photo by Ken Murray/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Wait? A playoff game...in Houston...with the Texans overcoming the Browns? Oh, [KITTEN] yeah!!!! Let’s be honest. How many of all y’all Houston Texans fan pictured that Houston would hosting a playoff game (even in its NFL-mandated Saturday afternoon slot) at the start of the 2023-24 season? I, for one, did not. Figured they would be bet...2024
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• Brownies & Frownies Wild Card Playoff Edition: Browns vs Texans

Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images Everything ends when it should, just why so ugly The Cleveland Browns had the luck of the seeding in the AFC playoffs in the sense that the AFC South Division winner would appear to be the weakest team. In the end, the Jacksonville Jaguars lost a three-game division lead and eventually lost the crown to the Houston Texans. Cleveland an...2024
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• Joe Flacco’s brutal pair of pick-6s turned Browns-Texans into NFL Playoffs rout

Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images Flacco threw two touchdowns in the third quarter... to the Texans. In the opening game of the NFL Playoffs, the Cleveland Browns’ vaunted defense was ripped apart in the 1st half against rookie sensation C.J. Stroud and the Houston Texans offense. The good news for the Browns was quarterback Joe Flacco played clean football and helped keep them to withi...2024
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• Pre-Snap Reads 1/17: Seahawks Special Teams unit finish in top-10
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• Brownies & Frownies Wild Card Playoff Edition: Browns vs Texans
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• Texans sign former Raiders LB Denzel Perryman
Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports Denzel Perryman signed with the Houston Texans on a one-year deal. What will he bring to DeMeco Ryans’ defense? The Houston Texans are adding to the linebacker position, according to NFL Network insider Ian Rapoport. The #Texans add again, this time signing former #Raiders LB Denzel Perryman, sources say. The disruptive Pro Bowler had 154 tackles in 2021 an...2023
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• Lamar Jackson and Todd Monken flipped the script in Ravens-Texans
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• Ups and downs from Saints vs. the Texans

Stephen Lew-USA TODAY Sports Which players are on the rise and who won't make the roster? The New Orleans Saints lost to the Houston Texans on Sunday 17-13 in their preseason finale. Up: Jimmy Graham Jimmy Graham looked his vintage form against the Texans on Sunday. Graham recorded three receptions for 34 yards and a touchdown. The numbers may not seem impressive, but the film does. The...2023
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• Reports: Kamu Grugier-Hill asks for and receives release from Texans
Veteran linebacker Kamu Grugier-Hill asked for and will receive his release from Texans, according to multiple reports. The Texans want to see more of rookie linebacker Christian Harris, their third-round draft choice. He played 38 snaps in his NFL debut Sunday, while Grugier-Hill saw action on only 18. Grugier-Hill re-signed with the Texans this offseason [more]...2022
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• NFL Super Wild Card Weekend: PFF Team of the Week & Player Awards
Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love and Houston Texans linebacker Christian Harris headline PFF's NFL Super Wild Card Weekend Team of the Week....2024
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• Hair of the Dog Week 17: Tennessee Titans @ Houston Texans

Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images A matchup that closed out a whole lotta bad streaks for H-town At the beginning of this season, how many of you figured that Houston would: A) Clinch a winning record with one game left B) Be not only in the thick of the playoff hunt, but actually have a solid chance to win the division C) Beat the vile BE-SFs at home Perhaps you may have thought one o...2024
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• Hair of the Dog: Week 4, Pittsburgh Steelers vs Houston Texans

Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images Where the Y’alls hosted the Yinzers Ah yes, a 24-point home demolition of the Pittsburgh Steelers, with CJ Stroud again going for over 300 yards, two TD and no INTs and the Texans rushing for 139 yards as a team, with Pierce accounting for 81 of those. Throw in a defense that forced one INT (probably should have had another for a scoop-and-score) and he...2023
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• The Houston Texans Won the 2023 NFL Draft
Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports Premature declaration? Maybe ... but probably not. Pre-draft rumors had any number of teams looking to trade up to select either Ohio State Buckeye quarterback C.J. Stroud or EDGE Will Anderson Jr. of the Alabama Crimson Tide. Many rumors had the Houston Texans picking one or the other, or even trading back and collecting more picks. A select few had the Texan...2023
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• The Houston Texans Won the 2023 NFL Draft
Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports Premature declaration? Maybe... but probably not. Pre-draft rumors had any number of teams looking to trade up to select either Ohio State Buckeye quarterback C.J. Stroud or EDGE Will Anderson Jr. of the Alabama Crimson Tide. Many rumors had the Houston Texans picking one or the other, or even trading back and collecting more picks. A select few had the Texans...2023
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• Week 10 scouting report: Houston Texans close to being big AFC threat
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• Texans face Ravens in DeMeco Ryans, C.J. Stroud debut
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• Houston Texans NFL Power Rankings: Week 8
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• RECAP: Texans defeat Colts, 29-27
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• BRB Groupthink: Houston Texans Season Predictions
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• The Value of Things: Houston Texans Final Roster Analysis
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• Houston Texans Top Roster Surprises and Snubs
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• The Day After the Day After (+1 day): The end of the Houston Texans’ preseason
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• Houston Texans Final Rosterology: Predicting Texans 53-Man Roster
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• Five Big Takeaways from Houston Texans’ Victory Against the Pittsburgh Steelers
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• Houston Texans Free Agency Losses Review

Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images Houston let a ton of defensive talent walk this offseason With so much optimism and potential heading into the 2024 season, from the new faces to the budding stars, it’s easy to move on and forget about who isn’t returning to Houston. Particularly, Houston lost a significant amount of starters on defense and depth across the offensive line. It’s been a while ...2024
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• Houston Texans Post-Draft 53-Man Roster Projection

Thomas Shea-USA TODAY Sports Ahh, the smell of fresh blood. We’re talking rookies here... don't get it twisted. Fresh off the 2024 NFL Draft, it’s time to take a first swing at the first projection of the 53-man roster. For the loyal readers, this isn’t the start of my yearly Rosterology articles per se, but merely a peak into the position groups and who’s in line to make the team. Curre...2024
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• Hair of the Dog, Divisional Playoff Round: Houston Texans @ Baltimore Ravens
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• The Houston Texans and the NFL Power Rankings: Divisional Round

Photo by Michael Owens/Getty Images Where are the Texans ranked after their blowout of the Cleveland Browns? It happened!!! It happened!!!! The Houston Texans have won a playoff game!!!! Take that, Cleveland! Week after week, the Power Rankings cognoscenti would place the Texans in between the 10 and 15 positions, clearly marking them as playoff hopefuls, then playoff also-rans. Even into ...2024
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• Brownies & Frownies Wild Card Playoff Edition: Browns vs Texans
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• Hair of the Dog Week 11: Arizona Cardinals @ Houston Texans

Photo by Logan Riely/Getty Images The Houston Texans face their greatest challenge...dealing with a trap game...FOR THEM!!! WHAT THE SCORE SAYS: The Houston Texans won their third straight game (longest streak since 2018), their fourth straight home game, and moved to 6-4 with their 21-16 win over the Arizona Cardinals. WHAT THE SCORE DOESN’T QUITE CAPTURE: This is the SIXTH straight game...2023
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• Hair of the Dog: Week 4, Pittsburgh Steelers vs Houston Texans
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