Houston Texans: Humiliation, anger and more questions than answers
By Neal Sharma
The Houston Texans are an embarrassment to the NFL, but also to Houston.
Having followed the Houston Texans ever since I started watching football, my mentality has been to always support this team through thick and thin.
It has been 10 years of constant frustration, but I’ve stuck through it all because I always hoped that one day the Texans would finally find the right quarterback to build this team around, and the they would finally become a consistent contender for years to come.
Now I’m near my breaking point with this franchise. It breaks my heart to say it because the Houston Texans are the only football team I’ve ever come to know and love, but the ineptitude of the front office has forced myself to question if it’s worth loving a team that clearly isn’t loved as much by the people in charge.
Houston Texans fans on social media alone would have managed the current situation with the front office decisions and quarterback Deshaun Watson better because they understand the importance of keeping the franchise quarterback informed and happy. Fans of the Texans understand the importance of not letting a man with minimal football experience have an important say in any front office or roster changes.
The fact any of this has to be written is disgraceful and pathetic. This organization has slapped the Texans fan base in the face repeatedly over the last year with careless decisions, and I’m over it.
Deception, manipulation and humiliation. Those three words are the best way to describe the mistakes that this Houston Texans management has committed. This is a front office that is so egotistical as to believe that they are making the best moves possible when the entire Texans fan base, anonymous NFL sources and even previous members of the Texans have called them out for their disastrous decisions. Texans CEO Cal McNair has even boasted about the organization’s ego himself.
This isn’t an organization “committed to excellence,” and they definitely won’t be receiving trust from the fan base any time soon. The fact that they don’t realize it either and fail to own up to their lopsided mistakes and just say once, “We messed up,” just shows how incompetent of a front office they are.
Where’s the transparency with the Texans? Where’s the honesty? Why should fans be investing their time and money into an organization that doesn’t prioritize trusting relationships and a winning mentality?
These are questions I have been recently asking myself, and I have no answer.
I’m going to dive into these mistakes, and I hate to bash the Houston Texans like this, but it’s come to a point to where the organization deserves it. The organization hasn’t committed to improving with the same amount of commitment fans have given the organization, and that truly hurts. If the Texans aren’t committed to this team, then why should we be?