Texans 2025 Schedule: Likes & Concers

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Clint Stoerner & Ron "The Show" Hughley give their likes and concerns from the Houston Texans' 2025 schedule.

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00:00The schedule is out, and a lot of times you look at it, all right, you look at the good and the bad.

00:06You look at the positive, the negatives, the things that may give you some concern,

00:12the things where you're like, ooh, this is good.

00:15We lucked out with this one.

00:16We're fortunate with this one.

00:19You can text some of yours in here on the 24610 YouTube and Twitch as well.

00:27I'll kick it out, Clint.

00:28I kind of really look at little things to me, and one thing for me that I love

00:34when I look at the schedule for the Texans, I would personally say, now some may disagree,

00:40but I would personally say the Texans have four games in which I would say

00:49they flatly don't have the quarterback advantage.

00:53Okay.

00:54And I think that's always a good thing.

00:57I think they're a team that is well-coached for the most part.

01:02And they've got the quarterback advantage or at least a push in every game they play except for the four,

01:09and that is Mahomes, Allen, Lamar, and...

01:14Stafford.

01:16And Stafford, yeah.

01:18Those would be the four.

01:19Everybody else, I believe, either they clearly have the advantage or, you know, Herbert, it's a push, you know, to me.

01:26They're in the same space.

01:29And I do.

01:30I think that is a big deal.

01:32When you go into games and when you've got 17 of them and you go into games and you look over, you're like, all right.

01:40Now, it's not everything, but you look over and you understand those guys affect the game more than anybody else,

01:45and your guys better than their guy.

01:49We can see every week in the NFL teams win that way.

01:53So, I do think, for me, that is a real positive looking at the schedule.

01:56And I like the fact that for this team, the Texans or a better weather team, they got one cold game,

02:08and that is December 7th against Kansas City.

02:11That's one of the first things I looked at at the back of the schedule, and I'm looking at it, all right,

02:15home game against the Colts, Dome, December 28th, that could be a tough spot.

02:21Where are you at?

02:21You're in SoFi Stadium in L.A.

02:24You got another home game.

02:27In December, you got three home games or two home games in December back-to-back at NRG,

02:34and then that one cold game December 7th you play against the Chiefs.

02:39Even November 30th is in a dome in Indy.

02:42So, I think that is a real good thing that they ain't rolling to –

02:48they don't got a couple of games in the back end in really cold spots.

02:52Yeah.

02:52No, there's no doubt about that.

02:54I mean, you can get into some real problems schedule-wise if you got Buffalo late at their place,

03:01you got Baltimore late at their place, you got Kansas City late at their place,

03:06Green Bay if they were on the schedule.

03:08I mean, you could get in a real pinch, and the fact that the Texans don't have that,

03:12being an indoor team, that is a plus for sure.

03:16Yeah, they get Baltimore October 5th.

03:19You've been in Seattle.

03:20Seattle, that Seattle one could have been a late game, a late-of-the-year game.

03:24A lot of people don't think about Seattle when it gets to weather, but it can get cold and windy in Seattle.

03:30So, I think they're in real good shape.

03:33And if you are one that is hoping, you know, for I think a dream scenario to potentially be up there trying to fight for,

03:41or by control that, you're loving the end of that, you're end of the year, you're in a good spot.

03:47What are some of the things that you like, the positive you liked seeing the schedule for the Texans?

03:52Oh, there's a lot of positive for me, man.

03:55I mean, it's the no-murderer's row.

03:58I think overall the difficulty is not overwhelming.

04:02It may be after we see some of these teams and find out who they really are,

04:05but right now it doesn't look like the difficulty is overwhelming.

04:10I personally love where the bye's at, given who the Texans are.

04:15You know, last year they started earlier than everybody else and had a late bye,

04:18and we heard D'Amico Ryans talk about how tough that stretch was to get to that bye.

04:23This year, you know, counting training camp, you're looking at, it's week six is your bye,

04:29so, you know, you're looking at eight to nine weeks into the season,

04:32if you count training camp, that you're going to have that bye.

04:34It'll break up just the monotony of football and the grind of football.

04:38It'll break up the overall season, including preseason, a bit,

04:42and so I think there's some good there.

04:46You know, there's, when you, I love, I love the finish that you talked about

04:54the last four games of the season.

04:55I do think the Texans are a team that are going to, are more than likely going to need to play

05:00at least 16 games, like legitimately all-out balls to the wall, maybe even 17 games.

05:06If they didn't live in a poor division, I think it'd be 17.

05:09There's a chance they could have this thing wrapped up by week 18,

05:12to be completely honest with you, but I'm not betting on it.

05:16So the last four games of the season, three of them being at home,

05:20you know, I think that's...

05:21Yeah, not just three of them being at home, but the opponents too.

05:27Yeah, Arizona, Vegas, the L.A. Chargers, and the Indianapolis Colts.

05:30Those are very winnable games.

05:31Very winnable games, yeah.

05:34So yeah, there's a lot to like about the schedule.

05:37I think the schedule guides were definitely in favor of the Texans this year.

05:45Definitely.

05:46You talk about the stretches of games where you got several in a row.

05:49So it was very possible that this season could turn up when you've got four

05:53or five games in a row where you're just like, whew, that could be scary.

05:57Like last year, you had that stretch of home to the Dolphins at Kansas City

06:03and then home to Baltimore.

06:04Ten days.

06:05Yeah, in ten days.

06:06Like you don't really...

06:06And then they had another stretch in there where it was...

06:09Now, obviously, when you get into a season, you don't know what it is,

06:12but they had a stretch last year.

06:14It was like Packers, Lions, Cowboys, like all in a division game, all at once.

06:20And obviously, the Cowboys were a different team.

06:22Yep.

06:23But you just never know how it gets.

06:25What about concerns for you from the schedule?

06:29When you look at the schedule, anything jump out as a concern for you?

06:33Yeah, I don't know if it's as much as a concern as it is just a reality.

06:37I think the first five games of the season, like this team's going to have to have

06:40a hell of a training camp.

06:42I think you're going to have to have a hell of a preseason.

06:46You got the L.A. Rams in L.A.

06:49You got Tampa Bay at home.

06:51You got Baltimore at their place all before the bye.

06:55So there's five weeks, and then you have to bye the first five weeks of your season.

06:58I think you're going to be very, very telling, not just for the division,

07:01because you got two playoff teams from last year and three teams that pose

07:07some real problems in the Rams, the Buccaneers, and the Ravens.

07:13So by the bye week, as fans, we're going to know what we have in the Texans.

07:19So I think that first stretch, while I don't necessarily view it as a concern,

07:23I just think it's going to be tough.

07:24And then that other stretch there in the middle of the schedule

07:27where you got Buffalo on Thursday night, you got Indy on the road,

07:30then you got Kansas City on the road on Monday night.

07:32That's probably the toughest stretch of three.

07:34The best team in the division with arguably the best two teams on your schedule

07:39right there in a row.

07:41Yeah.

07:41If the Colts are a good football team, if they're one of the ones battling with you,

07:50yeah, now that becomes one of those stretches that you're talking about.

07:54Because on the road with Indy, if they figure out their quarterback position

07:59to a point where they're competitive like that, then that becomes a tough one.

08:02Yeah.

08:02The other thing that concerns me a bit with the schedule is you got a bunch of teams

08:08on here that I think could pose some real problems, right?

08:12You don't have a handful of teams that are just like, damn,

08:16we got to slay the dragon.

08:18And then you got a bunch of layups, right?

08:19You got a bunch of teams that I think people are probably categorizing as wins.

08:24The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the San Francisco 49ers, the Denver Broncos, right?

08:29The Arizona Cardinals, the Seattle Seahawks, the Chargers, right?

08:34Those are – I mean, a lot of those are like, oh, those are wins,

08:36either whether based on last year or based on this year.

08:39Like, I mean, every way off team and being a real problem in the playoffs.

08:47Yeah, saying that to themselves.

08:49Yeah.

08:50Yeah.

08:50I mean, so I think that's where it's at, man.

08:53The Texans have a real chance this year with this schedule.

08:56You're either going to fall back and you're going to be in that middle of the pack

08:59and that's kind of where you're going to live with C.J. Stroud

09:02during his rookie contract or you're going to take the next step.

09:05You're going to dominate teams that right now are in the same tier with you

09:09and then you're going to get up there and compete your ass off

09:11against the top dogs.

09:13I think it's going to go one direction or the other.

09:15I don't know that we're going to look up and this thing be one of those

09:18still if, you know, wondering if they're – what tier they're in

09:24at the end of the season.

09:24Yeah.

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