Which 2021 Texans Game are You Most Excited For?

Two more months.

The Houston Texans will start playing football again in two months, and our local nightmare will ensue again. Tyrod Taylor, David Johnson, Phillip Lindsay, Mark Ingram, and Rex Burkhead will combine for 53 carries for 217 yards, and the defense will give up 29 points a game, and the Texans will be bad, just as bad as we are currently envisioning here in June.

Yet, that’s no reason to hate what will happen in the moment. There are numerous things to be excited about. Tytus Howard beating Marcus Cannon out at right tackle, Vernon Hargreaves III making one start on the outside instead of sixteen, Lonnie Johnson Jr. playing safety from the get go, what Nico Collins can do in the redzone, Charles Omenhiu and Ross Blacklock’s possible leap, and so on.

These things are all specific to the Houston Texans though. The Texans have to play against teams, that’s kind of how it works. This season we get to see Trevor Lawrence’s first start, another Jadeveon Clowney revenge game, J.J. Watt and DeAndre Hopkins revenge game, Josh Allen showing just how good God is, Tu’a and Will Fuller and Benardrick McKinney, another 200 yard Derrick Henry game, Carson Wentz fumbles, and Justin Herbert’s sherbet.

Personally, the game I’m most excited for is week 18 at home, against the Tennessee Titans. The Texans will be 3-13, or something even worse. The place will be a ghost town. It will be quieter than a mausoleum. And Derrick Henry will stampede through the defense, and Houston won’t have an answer for Julio Jones and A.J. Brown, and maybe we will see Davis Mills by then. It’s also going to be the first Texans game I’ve attended in more than a decade—back against Jacksonville in 2009 when Chris Brown, who was paid to be the redzone back, fumbled into the endzone, and the ball was recovered by Jacksonville.

So, now I turn to you loyal reader, which Texans game are you most excited about?