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Houston Texans, Year Eight
Year Eight of the Houston Texans begins this Sunday with a home game against the Jets, so it's time for my sixth annual preview of the team (previous annual previews are here). Largely ignored amidst the inexplicable interest over...
McClain keeps mailing it in
This really was not meant to be my "bash the Chronicle" week. I mean, really -- the local newspaper already has enough problems. But what else can one do when confronted with this blather from the Chronicle's lead NFL columnist,...
Houston Texans, Year Seven
Year Seven of the Houston Texans begins this Sunday with a road game against the Steelers, so it's time for my fifth annual preview of the team (previous annual previews are here). Largely ignored amidst the ubiquitous mainstream media...
2007 Weekly local football review
(AP Photo/Dave Einsel; previous weekly reviews here) Titans 38 Texans 36 The local mainstream media view of the Texans (3-4) -- most recently reflected by Richard Justice's Sunday column of yesterday (see also this earlier column) -- is that the...
More from the real Texans cheerleading squad
In mid-December of last year, with two games to play in the 2006 NFL season, the Texans looked deader than a doornail and not like a particularly well-coached team. The Texans closed the season by upsetting the Colts and beating...
Houston Texans, Year Six
Rejoice! The seemingly unending National League Football pre-season is over! It's Year Six for the Houston Texans and the fourth annual preview of the Texans since this blog began back in 2004 (previous previews are here). Thankfully, this past off-season...
Richard Justice, Texans Cheerleader
Following this post from last month, the Chronicle's Richard Justice continues to lead the cheerleading (see also here) for the Houston Texans: Times have changed. The Texans have this city's best owner in Bob McNair. They have competent people in...
Richard Justice, Texans Cheerleader
As noted in this earlier post, Chronicle sportswriter Richard Justice was a devoted supporter of the Charlie Casserly tenure as Texans general manager far beyond the time that most reasoned observers had concluded that Texans ship was leaking profusely. After...
Houston Texans, Year Five
Has it really been only a year since the pre-season review of the Texans' 2005 season? Look at all that has transpired over the past year: The Texans had a disastrous start to what was considered a promising 2005 season,...
What was that about Casserly not being fired?
As noted in this earlier post, Texans owner Bob McNair allowed former Texans General Manager Charlie Casserly to resign under the pretense that he would be pursuing a job with the National Football League's main office, which Casserly subsequently failed...
Cheerleading for the Texans
As regular as the sun rising, the Chronicle sports staff reverts to hometown cheerleaders during each pre-season training camp of the Houston Texans, chloroforming readers with puff pieces such as this Richard Justice column on new Texans wide-receiver, Eric Moulds....
Casserly is gone
As noted in this post from over a month ago, one of the worse-kept secrets in Houston sports circles over the past several months is that Houston Texans General Manager Charlie Casserly would -- take your pick -- either resign...
Bye-bye Reggie; Hello Mario
Although perhaps not always fulfilling, things are certainly always interesting over at Texansville. In a stunning development, the Texans ignored conventional wisdom and threw today's National Football League draft into chaos by signing North Carolina State defensive end Mario Williams...
Is Casserly gone?
ProFootballTalk.com is reporting that embattled Texans General Manager Charlie Casserly will be replaced as the Texans GM after the upcoming NFL Draft: A league source tells us that the Houston Texans plan to fire G.M. Charley Casserly after the 2006...
2005 Weekly local football review
49er's 20 Texans 17 The Reggie Bush Bowl came to a successful conclusion for the 2-14 Texans as a field goal with 5 minutes left in overtime lifted the 4-12 49er's to the victory. The Texans can now get on...
Evaluating Charlie Casserly's draft picks
Over the years, I have been blessed to have had the opportunity to represent several professional and major college football coaches in their contract negotiations and related legal matters. Through that experience, I have become friends with quite a few...
The hope of the Texans?
How exactly does a human body make the kind of cut that USC running back Reggie Bush is making in the picture on the left? Although the Texas Longhorns must find a way to stop Bush in the Rose Bowl,...
Examining the train wreck that is the Texans
Recent posts here, here and here have noted the lack of research and insight in recent articles by Chronicle NFL beat writer John McClain and columnist Richard Justice on the subject of the woeful Houston Texans. Into that vacuum of...
Charlie Casserly said what?
Chronicle sportswriter John Lopez has a good column today regarding the poor personnel moves of Texans' general manager Charlie Casserly that have been primarily responsible for the Texans' disastrous season this year. Included in the article was the following quote...
Unconstructive criticism
Kevin Whited over at blogHouston.net is one of the most insightful local bloggers on matters relating to football. In this post, he observes that John McClain -- the Chronicle's main beat writer on the National Football League for many years...
2005 Weekly local football review
Texas Longhorns 42 Colorado 17 Vince Young prevents the Horns (6-0) from having a post-OU letdown as the Horns cruise over what probably is the best Big 12 North team. The win sets up what will certainly be one of...
What's really going on over at Texansville?
Kevin Whited over at blogHouston.net has this interesting post chronicling the trial balloons that are being floated out of the Houston Texans' camp these days as various coaches and management figures attempt to deflect criticism for the team's absolutely horrendous...
2005 Weekly local football review
Pittsburgh 27 Texans 7"Houston, we have a problem." After an absolutely awful performance in Week One of the NFL schedule, the Texans outdid themselves in their home opener by rolling over and playing dead to the Pittsburgh Steelers, 27-7. This...
Houston Texans, Year Four
As the fourth season of the Houston Texans begins this Sunday in Buffalo against the Bills, Houston professional football fans no longer consider the Texans an NFL expansion franchise. As a result, it's now put up or shut up time...
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