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For the last ten seasons, in the NFL’s divisional round of the playoffs, home teams have dominated the results, going 30-10 over that stretch. So picking winners straight up should be fairly formulaic. Picking winners against the spread is a different …
Read MoreWhich Houston Texans team shows up on Saturday? Heading into the Texans’ fourth crack at getting to an AFC title game in team history, that’s the biggest question surrounding this trip to Kansas City to face defensing league MVP Patrick Mahomes and the…
Read MoreFor college football in the state of Texas, we knew that the coaching carousel following the 2016 season would prove pivotal for football in this state and for the Big XII as a conference. After all, this was the offseason in which Tom Herman would be …
Read MoreWhen it comes to all-time Houston Texans players, the very top of the list is occupied by players who took the league and the city by storm. Andre Johnson was the third overall pick in the draft, and was essentially The Chosen One as the first supersta…
Read MoreWhen the Hall of Fame tribute to J.J. Watt is eventually written, and his list of primary accomplishments is compiled for his bust in Canton, it will include all of the big picture stuff — the three Defensive Player of the Year awards, the five first t…
Read MoreAll week long, one of the biggest themes leading up to Saturday afternoon’s wild card round playoff game between the Houston Texans and Buffalo Bills had been history, specifically the Bills’ comeback from being down 35-3 to the Houston Oilers in a pla…
Read MoreWe’ve had 17 weeks of regular season NFL action, and the entire body of work is now in the books. It’s onto playoff time, where hopefully, my four months of mediocrity turn into something special. Something that can pay off all of these damn shopping b…
Read MoreThe calendar flipped over to a new decade yesterday. Across the big three professional teams in town, we closed out the 2010s in much better fashion than we started the decade. The Texans were 6-10 in 2010, and in 2019, they just polished off their fou…
Read MoreEarlier this week, on my morning radio show on SportsRadio 610, my cohost (former Houston Texan, Seth Payne) and I were having one of those “greatest moments of the decade” conversations that are a staple in that medium this time of year. The particula…
Read MoreThe Houston Texans have made it through the seventeen week war of attrition that is the NFL’s regular season, and they’ve managed to survive fairly healthy. Yeah, like every team, they’ve suffered a few season-ending injuries that are going to leave a …
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