PRESEASON Saturday Aug. 11 at Carolina Panthers KTRK 6:00 p.m. Saturday Aug. 18 SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS KTRK 7:00 p.m. Saturday Aug. 25 at New Orleans Saints # CBS 7:00 p.m. Thursday Aug. 30 MINNESOTA VIKINGS KTRK 6:00 p.m. REGULAR SEASON Sunday Sept. 9 MIAMI DOLPHINS CBS Noon Sunday Sept. 16 at Jacksonville Jaguars CBS Noon Sunday Sept. 23 at Denver Broncos CBS 3:15 p.m. Sunday Sept. 30 TENNESSEE TITANS CBS Noon Monday Oct. 8 at New York Jets # ESPN 7:30 p.m. Sunday Oct. 14 GREEN BAY PACKERS # NBC 7:20 p.m. Sunday Oct. 21 BALTIMORE RAVENS CBS Noon Sunday Oct. 28 BYE WEEK Sunday Nov. 4 BUFFALO BILLS CBS Noon Sunday Nov. 11 at Chicago Bears # NBC 7:20 p.m. Sunday Nov. 18 JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS CBS Noon Thursday Nov. 22 at Detroit Lions # CBS 11:30 a,m. Sunday Dec. 2 at Tennessee Titans CBS Noon Monday Dec. 10 at New England Patriots ESPN 7:30 p.m. Sunday Dec. 16 INDIANAPOLIS COLTS CBS Noon Sunday Dec. 23 MINNESOTA VIKINGS FOX Noon Sunday Dec. 30 at Indianapolis Colts CBS Noon
We're rewarded with 4 primetime games. Only 1 at home. What a joke. @ NYJ (MON) vs. GB (SUN) @ CHI (SUN) @ NE (MON) You can also kiss the chance of any of our "flex" games getting put in primetime, Colts, Jags, Titans, Vikings to end the year.
Look at the teams we face at home: Miami, Tennessee, Green Bay, Baltimore, Buffalo, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, Minnesota Only two of those opponents are good and we got one of them on national TV. Nobody outside Houston/Buffalo cares about the Mario reunion. It's not the schedule makers fault that our away schedule is much more appealing for TV coverage. I swear, Houston sports fans will complain about anything. FIVE national games!! That's almost a third of our schedule. I'll take that any day.
Our away games are just better matchups. I could see Baltimore, or maybe Tennessee for a Monday night game, but that's it. We got the best (Green Bay) on Sunday night.
Oh please. The Texans are one of the elite teams in the NFL. They earned a better schedule than this. The NFL has had NO problem putting crap teams on MNF/SNF before, so that excuse doesn't fly. Even if you wanted to use that excuse, Baltimore absolutely deserved a primetime spot... but they put them back to back with GB. Thanks NFL! And beyond that, look at how we close out the season, all of our snoozer teams that have *zero* chance of being competitive are stacked into the flex part of our schedule. The Bills and Dolphins at least have a chance, and the Titans may, but unfortunately that's sandwiched right between two other primetime games, which I can't imagine helps our case for landing a precious flex-in. We got less than we deserved here. We deserved two primetime homers.
now that the eastern media is giving us love, I really don't want it. I thought I did but ehhh. 13-3 if healthy. 11-5 with minimal casualties. 0-16 if we catch the virus.
17*-0 Book it! People without knowledge of the revolving NFL scheduling with divisons/conferences will WHINE about this... not knowing we can't really have EVERYTHING. STFU, mother crackers. *We'll even beat the BYE, b*tches!
5 prime time games. That helps the Texan's revenue. If the Texans do well again this year, I'd expect we get more love on the prime time @ home games the following season and from there on out so long as we're relevent. Seems like we were given a reward by the league, just not what we were hoping for but I can see it since we're new to the elite.
So if the NFL had stacked Green Bay, Baltimore, and the Jets at the end of our schedule, I'm sure you wouldn't be complaining that the NFL hates us and back loads our schedule with tough team, would you? We have 5 national TV games. We end the season with a crapload of winnable games to build momentum heading into the playoffs. We play on Thanksgiving. Pretty much everything I wanted happened. I guess I have lower standards than the rest, but I am thrilled.
