As the “Keep Hope Alive” crowd will tell you this week, and as I reminded on a #keephopealive hashtag run of tweets last week, the last two times New England faced a team it met in the playoffs that it had beaten at home in the regular season, it lost. In 2009, the Patriots beat  Read More

1. Momentum, schomentum. As I have told you all many times, momentum is like Santa Claus – IT AIN’T REAL. The Texans had lost three of four; the Bengals had won seven of eight. It didn’t matter when the game started. Texans 19, Bengals 13. The best team won. What they did against other teams  Read More

1. Gary Kubiak is facing his strongest test as a leader and head coach. The Texans are too talented to have such a long stretch of sluggish efforts. When people say, “Maybe they just aren’t that good,” they are wrong. This team is that good. This team can get it done. And this team can  Read More

1. Focus, focus, focus. No team is good enough to win when it doesn’t focus on the task at hand. The Texans certainly aren’t one of those teams. Segways for Christmas, the “J.J. Watt for MVP” campaign, and talk about home-field advantage – that had yet to be won – and whether starters would rest  Read More

Eric Dickerson was one of the first running backs to reward his offensive linemen for a job well done. He started early, giving them fancy watches after his record-breaking rookie season. Texans tailback Arian Foster gave his O-linemen Segways as a holiday gifts. Dickerson and Foster have more in common than generosity. Dickerson is a  Read More

In today’s column, I shared some background info on one of the more interesting Texans, and a personal favorite, Bryan Braman. Already a fan favorite, my guess is the more you learn about him, the more you’ll pull for his success. From his poor upbringing, to his struggles after high school, to running around like  Read More

“They just gave us a good (butt) whipping,” Andre Johnson said after the 42-14 thrashing the Texas took at the hands of the New England Patriots. “That’s pretty much it.” Now that was well-said. Much better than my man’s claim that this was the biggest game in Texans history. It simply wasn’t. But as it  Read More

1. Green Bay’s torching of Wade Phillips’ defense wasn’t a fluke. Tom Brady did what Aaron Rodgers did, and he also made it look easy. The Texans have allowed at least 300 yards passing in four straight games. Bulls on Parade? Um, Bulls on Fade. 2. Houston’s secondary is slipping. Injuries have played a major  Read More