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June 10, 2025, 11:43 amLast Updated on June 11, 2025 12:15 pm by Jon Mosales | Published: June 10, 2025
Life can be a funny thing. A lot of times, happiness or frustration comes down to expectations. The Texans finished 10-7, won their division and even won a road playoff game yet they were one of the must scrutinized teams all season because of how well they played the season before. Certainly, it wasn’t a picnic season where everyone was happy, but they essentially had the same season in b2b years and one was hailed a massive success and the other one a failure. Progression isn’t always linear and just because you defy expectations one season doesn’t mean you will continue to climb as a team. The easy explanation is that the avalanche of injuries at skill positions derailed HOU as they lost Stefon Diggs and Tank Dell to serious injuries and alpha WR Nico Collins to five weeks in the middle of the season. We expect QBs to roll with the punches, but there are only a handful of QBs that are receiver-proof and will succeed no matter what. While the team suffered once Collins went down, there’s a much simpler explanation for the offense constantly sputtering out and only averaging 21.9 points on the season while ranking 30th in QB FPPG. The o-line was atrocious, ranking amongst the worst in the league. Stroud was sacked 52 times and yielded a league-worst 27.2% pressure rate. The team had 10.7% sack rate in the face of the blitz (27th) and on that, given Stroud ranks 17th in time to throw against the blitz.
The offense itself was stale and predictable, constantly putting themselves in third-and-long and forcing Stroud to hold the ball (28th in time to throw). Stroud was under siege from the snap and now the team traded away Pro-Bowl tackle Jeremy Tunsil. Despite all the self-imposed handcuffs, the promise of a great team is still there and the fixes are fairly simple. The Texans ranked 25th in passing TDs and first downs, two numbers that should go up dramatically with a full season of Collins and the acquisition of Christian Kirk and 34th overall pick Jayden Higgins. This Texan team was a hard fade last season as all the expectations were through the roof and after the fact, the Stroud sophomore “slump” seemed inevitable, but I bet most HOU fans would take that trade as long as they get to know that Collins would ascend to one of the premier WRs in all of football.
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