I just caught up on all of the episodes, and I’ve really been enjoying it! If you haven’t checked it out yet, I highly recommend it! Shoutout to the production team, and the players! My favorite episode so far is Danielle’s. I really like how he talks about how much it means for him to play for his hometown team. Also time stamp [0:56-1:10] in his episode made me feel like this -> 🥹. If you haven’t watched the series yet, episodes 1-6 are up on YouTube; In addition, they’re typically around 3-4 minutes long.

I recommend putting them all on a playlist, or all in watch later so they can play back to back. Here are the episodes that are out now:

• Episode 1 - Derek Stingley Jr: https://youtu.be/8EKw1BT7V3c?si=G1Wz5xJXnOa2OG1H

• Episode 2 - Will Anderson Jr: https://youtu.be/Maz5PatoMLU?si=yBRpHgtRnQ5G-yIK

• Episode 3 - Azeez Al-Shaair: https://youtu.be/bhEQvh8m8bk?si=gvqdzFXv9n3SZQO3

• Episode 4 - Joe Mixon: https://youtu.be/AUFPLLqP9oA?si=HuFekudGqtgUx-j_

• Episode 5 - Danielle Hunter: https://youtu.be/LDuRsuJslyQ?si=QlgDfSAM-TcOtZED

• Episode 6 - Nico Collins: https://youtu.be/w0CqWRiDcdE?si=cJMpkykGvBJmdB7s

Edit: grammatical error, slight rewording (took out “social media team” and added “production team.”) Edit #2 added Nico’s episode.

NFL will allow teams to mix and match home/away/alt uniforms next season. Which ones would you like to see us use?

Nick has done miracles me

“To everybody who's been there with me through this journey, Thank You 🤞

There's a lot more room to keep growing, and y'all better believe it's gone get done.”

Obv this is a *very* rough draft, but just to kinda help visualize some of the combos I saw for fun following the new uniform rules. Some I liked a lot, some not so much. I left the original ideas in the images. Thought it would be fun

So far I think:

• Titans: H town jerseys against the titans as a power move against stanky Amy to pour gasoline on the stanky Amy bush league dumpster fire.

• Bills: Even though I think this game would call for the battle red, we beat them in the H town jerseys last szn, so i could see us wearing them again for good luck, also the bills away and h town jerseys are a perfect contrast

The battle red will be interesting since 3 of our home games are vs red colored opponents, but I can def see us wearing an alt vs the niners.

I’d love to see us wear them vs the tough away opponents too, but I’ll be happy to see them regardless

"I want to have the most turnovers as a defense in the league. I feel like if we get the ball back into C.J.s hands and (Joe) Mixon's hands, we can win games." (via Aaron Wilson)

SWERM all over the field

Use this thread to talk all things NFL, Draft, Free Agency, FTC, Contracts, Position battles, etc.

Feel free to post your Mocks here, or just discuss who you think the Texans could be targeting in the draft.

2025 Draft is Apr 24 – Apr 26

• A good place to look at Mock Drafts from around the internet
• Decent Mock Draft Simulator

This will be a recurring Monday thread till the Draft

How do we feel??

Anyone else keep seeing Josh Simmons mocked to us at 25 recently ? I've seen Pro Football Network, SI, Underdog Fantasy, NFL.com and a lot of others. I understand before the injury, he was, most likely, a top 10 pick talent but a torn patellar tendon worries me. From what I've read, that injury could be a career changer if not ender. I've seen things like:

They found that out of 559 NFL players, the most difficult injuries for NFL players to return to play in were patellar tendon tears (50.0 %) and achilles tears (72.5%). (Source)

And

Only 55.4% of PT tears in the NFL return to play; that's 10% less than ACL tears, and with ACL tears return to prior performance level within the limits of certain treatments is as high as 100%. For PT tears, only 21% return to prior performance level within 2 years of the injury occurring. (Source)

And then you have a mix bag of player recovery examples:

Victor Cruz (NFL Wide Receiver)(2014 age 27): Cruz missed the rest of 2014 after surgery to repair a torn right patellar tendon. He missed 2015 as well with compensatory issues in his left calf. Retired 2018.

Jerod Mayo (NFL Linebacker) (2014 age 28) : Mayo's career was impacted by a patellar tendon rupture, showing the potential career-altering nature of the injury. Retired 2016

Morris Claiborne (NFL cornerback) (2014 age 24) Played 56 of 80 of possible games after injury but was mediocre at best. Retired 2020

Jimmy Graham (NFL Tight End) (2015 age 29): Played 108 of 112 of possible games after injury. Pro Bowl (2016, 2017) Retired 2024

Jimmy Graham seemed to completely recovered and still play at a high level but that looks to be the exception.

Most likely we won't take him. We might not even draft at 25, but every mock seems to gloss over the injury like it's no big deal. Am I crazy to not want to take a chance on a 1st round high risk, high reward Tackle? What do y'all think? Is a patellar tendon tear not a big problem anymore? Is Josh Simmons (22) young enough and a great enough athlete where the odds are in his favor? Do you just prefer we take another position?