But now we come to a team that only started playing a little over 20 years ago. Here’s the story of 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 in Tennessee as Tennessee Titans kept going, Houston was hoping 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 after 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. By the way, he’s the older brother of the new quarterback 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 that he’s the greatest legend to date that has shirt Texans has ever worn. And he made it to the playoffs for the first time in 2011, throwing the Cincinnati Bengals out. A week later, however, the final stop was against Baltimore. A year later, the Texans even had 12 wins and JJ Watt was voted the best defensive player of the season. Cincinnati could be beaten again, but this time it was over against 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, after 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 against them Kansas City Chiefs.
In 2016 you could still beat the Raiders in the playoffs, but lost again 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 against Kansas City. But after 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 after 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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