Bill O’Brien: Treat the league like it’s week-to-week
The NFL is a week-to-week league. Often, players and coaches will enter a game preaching the 0-0 mentality, which reflects the need to have a lack of a past- and future-thinking memory. In football, one has to think in the present, or else susceptibilities to being gobbled-up arise.
The Texans are no stranger to the week-to-week league thought. In recent weeks, they’ve beaten the vaunted New England Patriots and lost to lowly Denver Broncos. They are only as good as they play on game-time. On Saturday, they will face an unfamiliar opponent.
“I think that this league, if we’ve learned anything this year, that this league is a week-to-week league and I think that every game is different,” Texans coach Bill O’Brien said on Tuesday. “Every single game is different. I think that this game, relative to any game we’ve played this year – like, this game right here, we haven’t played these guys in whatever it is, four years, three years. So, we don’t know much about this team. We’ve got to do a good job of preparing.”