The NFL Draft is officially 30 days away. Let’s take a look at the Texans’ off-season score card up to this point:
Coaching Staff:
out – DC Richard Smith, DLC Jethro Franklin, DBC Jon Hoke, Trainer Kevin Bastin, Conditioning Coach Dan Riley
in – DC Frank Bush, DLC Bill Kolar, DBC David Gibbs
summary – On New Year’s Eve, GM Rick Smith finally pulled the plug on a defensive coaching staff that many had been calling to be fired for some time. The fact of the matter is that our defense is loaded with too many superstars for it to perform as [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, this is not your father’s Houston Texans football team. This team has star power at key positions as well as a good mix of young players and veterans. The former punching bag for the rest of the NFL seems to be primed for a breakout season in 2009. If you’re not yet drinking the kool-aid then I suggest you reconsider. It seems as though some others are getting thirsty:
Mark Jones at Bleacher Report thinks the Texans will go 11-5 next season and make our first trip to the playoffs.
Charles Robinson of Yahoo! Sports [...]

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If Terrell Owens is his own TV show, then he has been dropped by ESPN and picked up by Fox Sports NE.  A few days after being released by the Cowboys T.O. has embarked on his third “fresh start” of his career with the Buffalo Bills.  For the record, I’m not a T.O. hater.  I think he is an amazing wide receiver, one of the best in NFL history.  In fact, I think some of his post-TD celebrations are somewhat amusing (i.e. the sharpie thing).  Am I a Dallas Cowboys fan? Not really.  Do I like Donovan McNabb. [...]

 It’s getting to be that time of the year again when every Texans fan starts to get excited.  Historically, the NFL Draft has been at the top of a short list of things that energize our fan base, just ahead of the period where management dumps our worthless free agent contracts following yet another dissapointing season.  Maybe, just maybe we would end up winning a few games as well.  But this year is different.  Different even from the previous seasons where we proclaimed things would be “different.”  There is a growing sense that, behind a stellar core of talented, character athletes, this team can actually [...]