While the Houston Texans are the newest team in the National Football League, underway in their 23rd NFL season, they're building up a sample size of enough seasons, and enough trees with each opponent to set your watch to a few things. Crazy enough, the one trend with the Texans...
While the Houston Texans are the newest team in the National Football League, underway in their 23rd NFL season, they're building up a sample size of enough seasons, and enough trees with each opponent to set your watch to a few things. Crazy enough, the one trend with the Texans that has been a stone cold lock since inception is losing to the Minnesota Vikings , and not really showing up at all early in doing so.
For the sixth time in the history of the Texans' franchise, they lost to the Minnesota Vikings, against no wins. Also, for the sixth time, they trailed the Vikings at halftime by double digits, this year, a 14-0 score, ultimately leading to a 34-7 thrashing at the hands of Sam Darnold and the Vikings.
It was a heaping serving of humble pie dished out to the Texans, who had risen to among the top five teams in the league, according to most of the NFL power rankings. They had a lot of the same mistakes they'd made against the Colts and particularly the Bears the first two weeks, but this time it was in a venue and against a team that could take advantage.Spoiler alert — there will be very little Texans representation in the"WINNERS" section of this article.
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