Houston Texans 2025 Problems Go Back to 2024

After what felt like a 15 day eternity, the Houston Texans returned to action on Monday night, and as many of you saw, the long wait was not worth it. Not worth it at all. The same slew of silly mistakes and haphazard football that marked the first three games of the season, all losses, was back on display in the team’s 27-19 loss in Seattle. 

The game was technically a one score game, but anyone with a brain and working set of eyes could tell which team on that field will be going to the playoffs this season. (Hint: NOT the Texans.) This is as angry as I’ve been with the team in three years, and to be clear, I rarely get angry. 

The Texans now sit at 2-4, with the same number of wins as the Browns and the Raiders, two teams that expect to blow things up, to some degree, at the end of the season. The problem, though, isn’t the 2-4 record in 2025. The problem is the 6-9 record since Week 8 of last season. 

Six games to start a season is a small enough sample size to rationalize things, and explain things away, oftentimes validly. However, 15 games of the same mess, with a full offseason to make changes in the middle (which means its old faces and new faces messing up) is systemic, and with every passing game, harder from which to extricate the franchise. 

For the Texans, it’s not just the six wins and the nine losses, but it’s the nature of them. You don’t have to peel the onion layers back too far to see that the six wins are highly unimpressive and the nine losses are largely disastrous. Let’s examine, first the six wins

‘24 Week 11 – at Dallas

‘24 Week 13 – at Jacksonville

‘24 Week 15 – at Miami

‘24 Week 18 – at Tennessee

‘25 Week 4 – vs Tennessee

‘25 Week 5 – at Baltimore

So if you’re keeping score at home, that’s two wins over Cooper Rush, one win over Trevor Lawrence (until Azeez Al-Shaair murdered him), one win over Tua Tagovailoa, and two wins over the Titans. If this were college football, those six wins would get you laughed out of the playoff committee selection room. Nothing impressive there. 

Conversely (or similarly, perhaps?), the Texans’ nine losses since the 6-2 start last season:

‘24 Week 9 – at New York Jets *

‘24 Week 10 – vs Detroit * 

‘24 Week 12 – vs Tennessee

‘24 Week 16 – at Kansas City *

‘24 Week 17 – vs Baltimore *

‘25 Week 1 – at Los Angeles Rams

‘25 Week 2 – vs Tampa Bay *

‘25 Week 3 – at Jacksonville

‘25 Week 7 – at Seattle *

So SIX of the nine losses were on standalone nationally televised games. SIX! Those are denoted above with an asterisk. The other three losses — a home loss to Will Levis, a road loss to Trevor Lawrence, and a loss to the Rams where they had four months to prepare. 

If you’re wondering why nobody in the national media respects the Texans, perhaps it’s because they’ve ruined at least six football watching days over the last year with horrific football, including a 31-2 loss to the Ravens on Christmas. 

So now the Niners come to town, and the Texans will likely be without Nico Collins, their best offensive player. This is shaping up to be a long season, and we’re not even halfway there yet. 

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