The Texans have their stars back, and they’re still on the brink of a lost season
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Midway through October 2017, the Texans sat at 3-3 going into the bye. They’d already lost All-Pro J.J. Watt for another season. However, the emergence of quarterback Deshaun Watson, who was having a breakout rookie year, gave them the hope of a future beyoThe Texans have their stars back, and they’re still on the brink of a lost season
Midway through October 2017, the Texans sat at 3-3 going into the bye. They’d already lost All-Pro J.J. Watt for another season. However, the emergence of quarterback Deshaun Watson, who was having a breakout rookie year, gave them the hope of a future beyond being an occasional playoff team from a weak division — a future where they could be a true contender.Watson lasted only one more game in 2017, a narrow shootout defeat in Seattle, before bowing out for the season himself with a torn ACL suffered in practice. Houston went 1-8 the rest of the way to finish an abysmal 4-12 in a year when the team decidedly lost the war of injury attrition that is life in the NFL. That head coach Bill O'Brien had three winning seasons to start his career with the Texans is likely what saved him, at least for another year.That year has come, Watt and Watson have returned, yet the early returns have been discouraging to say the least. Few would begrudge Houston for suffering a one-score loss in Gillette Stadium to start the s Read more