Houston Texans Shine as Underdogs in Playoff Victory

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00:00Let's start again with Houston a 20 point blowout win at home

00:04against the Chargers outright as a two and a half point

00:08underdog. DRS entering this year after doing the same a season

00:12ago winning outright in a wild card weekend game against the

00:16Browns as a slight home dog after an AFC South championship

00:20with a rookie quarterback and rookie head coach. The Texans

00:23had a ton of optimism this offseason. Are they going to

00:26fall short of maybe some of those sky high expectations?

00:30Potentially, but one thing we have to give Houston credit for

00:34at home. After winning a divisional title, this team can

00:38earn it in the postseason with CJ Stroud as its starting

00:41quarterback as an underdog now 11 and seven against the spread

00:46with eight outright victories including two outright wins as a

00:50home dog in the postseason Stroud wasn't sensational,

00:54really, which has been the story of his sophomore season 282

00:58yards, a touchdown and an interception, but did have 42

01:01yards on the ground. Third most of his two year NFL career 112

01:06of those 282 to his top target and Nico Collins, as you alluded

01:10to, and Joe Mixon, what a great acquisition for the Texans this

01:14offseason 25 carries 106 yards and a touchdown. Even though the

01:19Texans were a home dog, they prove once again, they

01:23understand what it takes to win in the playoffs.

01:26Yes, they do. And that says something about their head

01:28coach and their organization overall is booked to be back to

01:30back years as underdogs at home. Ah, they always give them that

01:33first playoff game as a rite of passage is going to get knocked

01:36out, but they continue to make it into the next round. The

01:39shame of it all is we were talking back in August, like

01:41could this be the year if the Texans and CJ Stroud,

01:43particularly CJ Stroud, take even an incremental step over

01:46what we saw last year as a sensational rookie that was in

01:50the MVP race late. He said, my goodness, Nico Collins, we know

01:53he's going to evolve as a true number one wide receiver and be

01:55that is, you know, top five type player and he is that. But then

01:59you add Stefan Diggs is that veteran presence to take some of

02:01the heat off of Nico Collins. So I've tanked L in that G and

02:04another bunch of quality players, adding Joe Mixon, like

02:07wow, the expectations now not to win the AFC South Bend, but

02:11challenge the Kansas City Chiefs for supremacy in the AFC. Now

02:14granted during the season, you get attrition and you get

02:16injuries, you have to adjust those expectations, which we're

02:19doing now. And it is unfair to say like, hey, that's a great

02:22win for the Texans. We expect them to be sacrificed against

02:25Kansas City when maybe we're thinking about Kansas City

02:27versus Houston in the playoffs in August, like wow, this could

02:30be a toe-to-toe effort. And maybe this game is actually in

02:32Houston and not in Kansas City. I like what I see out of the

02:35organization for the Texans, the defense, very good. You have a

02:38defensive head coach. That's what's supposed to happen. The

02:41offensive, the Bobby Slowick, not as good as it was last year.

02:44Why? Because injuries and attrition and a lot more game

02:46film this year that they have to what they didn't have last

02:49year under CJ Stroud. I like the progression for the Texans

02:52into the future. It's just a shame. We're not getting the

02:55full gas Texans taking on Kansas City because that truly

02:58would have been an epic game, right?

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