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The Texans aren’t playing football this week http://www.thetexanslockerroom.com/authentic-tyler-ervin-jersey , but typically at this time, and on this day of the week, we post our predictions for the upcoming game. Since the Texans are off, instead visiting their former high schools, colleges, hometowns, or partaking in two story home lounging, we examine our personal expectations and envision how the rest of the Texans’ season will play out. Matt B.:I think the Texans finish the season at 11-5. They will beat the Ravens and Colts but then lose to the Patriots on Sunday Night Football. And they will split with Tennessee because that’s just Newton’s 4th Law. It depends on the seeding, but I think the Texans will host the Bills in the Wild Card round as the 3rd seed and they will win. Then they likely have to go to Kansas City and it ends there. I expect a good game but I don’t know why anyone would expect that secondary and pass rush to hinder Patrick Mahomes in any possible way.I would say it is a satisfactory season that meets my expectations, but after this, no more being happy just to be in the playoffs. Seriously, no more. In the last few years, the Eagles have built a Super Bowl caliber team around Carson Wentz. The Rams have done it with Jared Goff. The Cowboys with Dak Prescott. The Chiefs with Patrick Mahomes. See the trend?They need to build a Super Bowl team around their superstar quarterback after this season. Honeymoon is over.Capt Ron:The Texans face one of the most critical three-game stretches of a regular season schedule in franchise history after this bye week. They travel to play the Ravens who are looking like the best team in the AFC after Baltimore dismantled the Patriots, and then Houston faces the Colts at NRG just four days later (I really hate Thursday Night Football!!). The following week they host the Patriots and need to get that monkey off their back once and for all.Can they do it? Can they win all three of those games? Probably not. In fact, I’ll bet they lose to the Ravens, beat the Colts and then lose to the Patriots. I hope I’m wrong and that they can make an incredible statement to at least come out 2-3 in that stretch. I just won’t believe it until they do it.They then go on to host the struggling Broncos, head to Tennessee to topple the hapless Titans Jordan Thomas Jersey , swing into Tampa to tap the Bucs down a few more notches at the bottom of their rum barrel, and then close out the season at NRG against the Titans. You read that correctly, some fool in the NFL’s scheduling department arranged the same division opponent twice in three weeks.All that said, I think they go 5-2 to run out this string for an 11-5 finish and a first-round bye in the playoffs. This exceeds my expectations for an O’Brien-led offense, and that’s entirely because Deshaun Watson won’t let a bad offensive coordinator stand in the way of destiny.Mike Bullock:Final W-L: 10-6Here’s what we’re looking at for the second half of the season:@RavensColtsPatriotsBroncos@Titans@BuccaneersTitansDepending on which Texans team shows up in Baltimore, I think this is a totally winnable game. Despite all the David v Goliath hype the Ravens are getting right now for downing the Patriots, Lamar Jackson isn’t Deshaun Watson: 1-0.The Colts are coming down to H-Town and going down at NRG: 2-0.Until Bil O’Brien defeats Darth Belichick, he won’t be a Jedi: 2-1.The Texans get revenge for [NAME REDACTED] ever being foisted on the worldas a starting QB: 3-1.Michael George Vrabel follows in his mentors footsteps and takes one from fellow mentee Bill O’Brien: 3-2.Might need to flip a coin on this one ‘cause the Buccaneers could beat anyone or lose to everyone this season depending on which version of their team comes out of the tunnel: 3-3.Deshaun Watson ends the season, cementing his MVP campaign by handing the Titans their second 50 burger shellacking from Houston in recent memory: 4-3.With the easy math, this puts the Texans at 10-6. I expected better prior to the Tradepalooza in the late summer, then lost all faith before gaining some back. While I’m still not sure this team is built to win beyond the Wild Card game, if the injury bug stays away and they get hot at the right moment, the team that beat the Chiefs could beat every other team in the league on any given Sunday.Texan_RevJ:I originally had the Texans finishing this season at 11-5. So far, that looks like it could be a possibility but I’m going to make a change and say we finish 10-6 instead. To me the only game we shouldn’t be favored in the rest of the year is the Patriots game. Bill Belichick has a history of making BOB look foolish. The Ravens game is a toss up and assuming the Colts are still struggling with health issues, we should be able to take that game as well. The rest of the schedule looks good for us. The Broncos, Titans (2x), and Bucs are all inconsistent teams at best. They could get hot and have a good game against us but I’ll put my faith in Deshaun to navigate those waters. My guess is we win the AFC South and play in the Wild Card game against either the Colts or Raiders. After winning that game Womens Will Fuller V Jersey , we will have to go to New England to take our beating before heading home for the winter. The Texans have surpassed my expectations thus far this year. I always thought the first half of our season was more difficult so I like where we are at the halfway point. While I would love to see us hoisting the Lombardi Trophy at the end of the year, I just don’t think we have the depth to claim the title just yet. Diehard Chris:The Texans, to this point, have surpassed my expectations, but I am still very cautious because this team, as good as it can look, can also lay embarrassing eggs, such as the home performance against Carolina (my one game I went to this year - thanks fellas), or the road loss to Indianapolis where the secondary just got shredded. I believe my prediction for this season was 8-8 based on my assumption of a different (but not better) secondary, and an offensive line that didn’t realistically appear to be capable of a significant enough turnaround in 2019, and mainly - because Bill O’Brien.Instead, what we’ve seen is:-Bill O’Brien finally realizing that he needs to trust Deshaun Watson and gameplan to his strengths on a regular basis instead of pulling back and trying to make him Tom Brady every other game.-The Texans acquired Laremy Tunsil, Tytus Howard has been better than expected at his young age, and the guard play hasn’t been garbage.-The secondary is still different, but not better.-Mainly though, what has made the difference is the continued growth of Deshaun Watson, who I love but thought his ceiling was always to be at the top of the 2nd tier of NFL QBs. It’s clear to me now that there is no ceiling and Watson could literally become the best QB in the NFL.As for the rest of the season:at Baltimore - lossvs Indianapolis - winvs New England - lossvs Denver - winat Tennessee - winat Tampa Bay - loss (ugh)vs Tennessee - winTexans finish 10-6 DeAndre Hopkins Jersey White , good enough for a wild card in the AFC South - and I think they win the wild card game before getting bounced.Kenneth O.:The Texans are meeting my expectations so far. I knew that as long as they had DW4 in the backfield, they weren’t losing more than 7 games this season. I predicted a 10-6 record for the Texans in the summer, which is still possible looking at their remaining schedule. However, they will finish 11-5. They’ll win two of the next 3 games against Indy, Baltimore, and New England, and have a let down game. I can a loss at Tampa Bay due to their high power offense. The Texans will secure a 3rd seed and defeat the Colts in a playoff rematch of last year. Next round they’ll face the Chiefs and again upset Mahomes and company in a high scoring bout. Unless somehow Baltimore beats them again in the divisional, the Texans season will come to an end in the AFC Championship Game against the Patriots. TIM:Before the season started, I predicted the Texans would finish 9-7. I expected the team to be 4-5 at the bye, with the Texans taking advantage of an easier second half and a particularly soft December schedule to finish with a winning record.The Texans are 6-3 right now, so they’ve certainly exceeded my expectations.Perhaps it’s the Deshaun Watson talking, but I now think they win five of their final seven games to finish 11-5. I believe that’ll put them atop the AFC South but won’t be good enough to earn a first round bye in the NFL Playoffs. In terms of Houston’s ceiling in the postseason, I’d have to see how the bracket shakes out and what the path to Hard Rock Stadium on February 2nd looks like before I’d hazard a guess as to whether the Texans will be my pick to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl. Right now, I’d have them falling short of that, but all things are possible with DW4. Nearly 11 months from his most recent NFL game, Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt isn’t hiding his eagerness to get back on the field.The three-time Defensive Player of the Year hasn’t played since he suffered a broken left leg against Kansas City in Week 5 last season. The prior year, he missed the final 13 games of the 2016 season with a back injury that required surgery.With his recent string of injuries Seantrel Henderson Jersey , Watt said he has one major objective if coach Bill O’Brien lets him play in the team’s dress-rehearsal game against the Rams in Los Angeles on Saturday night.“I want to come out healthy,” Watt said. “I want to be able to go on the field and then come back off the field.”Sounds simple enough, right?When the Texans selected pass rusher Jadeveon Clowney with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2014 draft to complement Watt, the duo was expected to menace quarterbacks for years to come.Four seasons later, however, the two have played in just 25 of 64 games together as Clowney dealt with injuries early in his career and Watt has struggled to stay on the field the past two years.This summer, Watt has been active in practice and has shown glimpses of what made him great in four consecutive Pro Bowl seasons from 2012 to 2015. Last year, despite the injuries, he made his impact off the field, raising more than $37 million for Hurricane Harvey relief. The accolades continued to roll in this offseason when he picked up the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year as well as the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year honors for 2017.Now nearly a year removed and feeling healthy, Watt has plenty of reasons to be optimistic about the 2018 season.“This year has been a lot better than last year,” Watt said. “Last year, we were up there (for training camp in West Virginia) for three weeks, then we were in New Orleans, and then we were stuck in Dallas with the hurricane. Just about anything is better than last year. This has been a good camp so far and we’re excited to have a strong finish.”The Texans went back to West Virginia again this summer, but only for two weeks before returning to Houston for joint practices against San Francisco. O’Brien — who has been mum on Watt’s status for Saturday — said Watt looked good in the practices against the 49ers.Clowney, who missed most of the offseason and training camp in his recovery from arthroscopic knee surgery in January Lamar Miller Jersey , returned to practice on Monday.Practicing alongside Watt again, Clowney is just as optimistic about the defense helping the Texans bounce back from a 4-12 record last season.“The sky is the limit for this defense,” Clowney said. “We just have to come to play like we do — week in and week out and try and stay healthy. If we stay healthy, I don’t see much bad going wrong with this defensive line and this secondary we put together. I’m excited about this team and this defense.”Watt said he’s excited about Houston’s offseason pickup in safety Tyrann Mathieu, praising the new addition’s value as a teammate and playmaker.“There’s guys all over the place,” Watt said. “We have a chance to be a very good defense, but it’s up to us to go out there and execute and do it. It’s easy to look on paper and say we’re going to be good, but it’s another thing to go out there and perform.”While Watt might be chomping at the bit to get a taste of game action on Saturday, he said as a pass rusher, he doesn’t have any specific reintroductions to the game such as a receiver getting hit for the first time or a linebacker making the first tackle after a lengthy absence.“I mean, I’m not sure I need to get pancake-blocked or anything like that,” Watt said with a grin. “You just want to hit the pads. You want to try and make a tackle and get back up. You have to get up, get back in line and try to make another play.”