The Houston Texans may not take anybody by surprise in 2024, but that doesn't mean they're not a team nobody wants to face. With the regular season only a handful of weeks away, it's become clear that expectations for this franchise have never been higher.
If you told a Houston fan that sentence at the end of the 2022 season they might have laughed. However, thanks to an incredible breakout 2023 campaign it now seems like these Texans have no ceiling at all and anything is possible - including and up to winning the ultimate prize. Watch former NFL safety and ESPN analyst Ryan Clark get hyped up on Mountain Dew and pound the table for the 2023 Texans.
The ceiling is to “ACTUALLY WIN THE SUPER BOWL” 🗣️ pic.twitter.com/5rGxSNlNvV
— Houston Stressans (@TexansCommenter) August 2, 2024
Clark may have been over-caffeinated, but he's not wrong. The way we see it, on paper there's exactly two teams in the league who have more reason to be hopeful than this group in Houston. There's the San Francisco 49ers, who are once again the heavy favorites to win the NFC and advance to the Super Bowl. Then there's the Kansas City Chiefs, who have won three of the last five and qualify as a dynasty.
Aside from those two serious contenders, there's nobody this Texans team should fear - even the Baltimore Ravens, who so convincingly showed them the exit from last year's playoffs. The loss of defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald, who's now head coach of the Seattle Seahawks will likely account for a big blow to Baltimore. That plus the upgrades to Houston's roster should be more than enough to push past the Ravens in the postseason.
You'd be crazy to put money on anybody but Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs, but the ball bounces in funny ways and you wouldn't be crazy at all to believe the Texans can go all the way this year.
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