Thanks for everything Big Dawg 🫡

How are we feeling about CJ and the offensive? Really want camp to start so we can start hearing some more info on how the offense is meshing.

https://x.com/aaronwilson_nfl/status/2079540458464641152?s=46

I collect tickets and Watt has been my favorite Texan for a long time. I tried to find a stub from each of his major career milestone moments (see the last picture for the full list).

Fun fact - the last one is AI generated because it was during COVID and they didn't print tickets.

Am I missing any top moments?

The Houston Chronicle editorial board wrote a piece arguing that our city's success in hosting the World Cup shows that taxpayers don't need to be on the hook for a new football stadium. Here's a key quote:

As for the actual games, NRG Stadium proved to be a big hit with international fans. The positive feedback should put any pleas for a new taxpayer-funded stadium to bed. We do hope the Houston Texans consider heeding the concerns of their players by keeping the natural grass intact. It took a lot of effort to transform the synthetic turf of the gridiron into a verdant, grassy soccer pitch, but it’s an investment the team should consider, especially since fewer injuries happen on grass. 

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Training camp is right around the corner, so here’s a visual breakdown of every positional group on the roster as we head in.

Also, are there any depth orderings/listings worth shifting on this sheet?

Obviously JJ is number 1

Some other notable DL:

Mario Williams
Clowney
Antonio Smith
Hunter
Not much other competition

Talk about whatever is on your mind with other Texans fans!

I asked a handful of people around the league about Stroud and his potential trade value if the Texans choose not to sign him to a long-term contract and generally got two responses. One was an immediate response that he's still a really valuable quarterback. The other was a long pause and a sigh before something far less confident came out of the other person's mouth. "I'm glad it's not my problem" is what I heard from one team that already has its quarterback under contract.

Coaches and executives tend to have longer memories than fans, and while Stroud was disastrously bad during this past postseason, the 2023 second overall pick was solid enough during the regular season, with his nth-placed finish in Total QBR placing Stroud ahead of guys such as Justin Herbert, Trevor Lawrence and Jared Goff. He has been a consistently above-average quarterback despite playing behind inconsistent offensive lines and nonexistant run games throughout his pro career so far. And if you place stock in wins, well, Stroud is just the third quarterback in NFL history to win a playoff game in each of his first three pro seasons after Otto Graham and Russell Wilson.

And yet, it's also fair to wonder if Stroud will ever be able to meaningfully build on his rookie season, which itself was driven by an unsustainably low interception rate and an 8.2 yards per attempt figure, neither of which Stroud has come close to matching since. I still think Stroud's more than a midlevel quarterback, but it's unclear whether the 24-year-old really has the sort of elite-level ceiling he hinted toward as a rookie.

Teams would still want to have Stroud on their roster, but him on a rookie deal is a very different proposition than him on a contract north of $60 million per season, especially with a couple of first-round picks going out as part of the trade package.

Defense looks Super Bowl caliber, offense looks held together with duct tape.

Yea we've made upgrades but I feel like this happens every offseason just for OL to be shit again.

FTC

I’m about to get cooked by the stroud haters in the replies 😂