2023-04-20 16:42:57
But now we come to a team that only started playing a little over 20 years ago. Here’s the story of the Houston Texans!
The Houston Texans were founded on October 6, 1999 by Bob McNair. He tried to build an NFL team in 1997, but failed. But since the Houston Oilers disappeared from the scene in 1996, or continued in Tennessee as the Tennessee Titans, people in Houston hoped for a new football team. However, the NFL actually preferred a team in Los Angeles at the time, and there was also interest from Toronto. Initially, the owners of the other teams also voted for Los Angeles by a majority, but the city in California did not manage to clarify important issues. So Houston got the contract following all. In 2002, the new franchise was allowed to have the first overall pick in the draft as a kind of welcome gift. As befits their status, they decided on a quarterback and brought in David Carr. Incidentally, he is the older brother of the new quarterback for the New Orleans Saints. However, David developed into a flop.
Four wins in the first season, the first head coach was Dom Campers. The following year they won five saws, and in 2004 7 victories. But in 2005 the team fell to just two wins and Gary Kubiak was named the new coach. DeMarco Ryans became DROY. He would make the Pro Bowl twice in his career. The Texans now always had mediocre records: 6-10, 8-8, 8-8, 9-7, 6-10. In 2009, Brian Cushing was the second Texan to win the DROY award. The star of the early days was Andre Johnson, who made it to the Pro Bowl a total of seven times. In his career he caught 1062 passes and scored 70 touchdowns.
Then in 2011 he got a perfect grip in the NFL Draft. Houston secured the services of JJ Watt. I think it’s safe to say he’s the greatest legend to wear the Texans jersey to date. And he made the playoffs for the first time in 2011, knocking out the Cincinnati Bengals in the process. A week later, however, the final stop was once morest Baltimore. A year later, the Texans even had 12 wins and JJ Watt was voted the best defensive player of the season. Cincinnati might be beaten once more, but this time it was over once morest the Patriots. Watt would make 5 Pro Bowls in his career, be DPOY 3 times, have top sacks twice in a season and be selected to the NFL Team of the 10s.
A bad crash followed in 2013, following celebrating 12 victories the year before, only two were achieved in 2013. There had only been one such crash before, oddly enough that was the other Houston team, the Oilers. The season had started well with two wins and with Deandre Hopkins they had made another good move in the draft. However, this was followed by 14 consecutive defeats and Gary Kubiak had to go. Bill O’ Brian took over the team. In the next two years, the Texans picked up nine wins each, and JJ Watt was DPOY each time. In the second year, that was even enough for participation in the playoffs, but there it put a nasty 0 to 30 smack once morest the Kansas City Chiefs.
In 2016 you might still beat the Raiders in the playoffs, but lost once more to the Patriots. In 2017, Texans hooked DeShaun Watson. In terms of sport, he was quite convincing and led the team to the playoffs in 2018 with 11 wins, where they lost to the Colts.
They made it to the playoffs one last time in 2019, beating Buffalo in the process and quickly leading 21-0 once morest Kansas City. But following that, the Houston Texans collapsed completely and still lost the game. It was the beginning of the decline. Bill O’Brien had to go, JJ Watt, like Deandre Hopkins, moved to Arizona. Watson was accused of sexual harassment following he voluntarily didn’t play for a year, the Texans handed him over to Cleveland.
Legendary Players:
WR Andre Johnson
DE JJ Watt
WR Deandre Hopkins
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