It doesn’t matter who their head coach or quarterback is; the Houston Texans are probably resigned to a tried and true fate. If they make the playoffs, they will likely be scheduled for the opening Wild Card weekend game on Saturday afternoon.
There are a few constants in life.
Death, taxes, and Houston getting the sleepy NFL playoff game everyone is seemingly half-watching before the main course. And folks, there’s precedent for this statute.
During the Matt Schaub era, the Texans, of course, opened Wild Card Saturday. During the Deshaun Watson era — who once faced more than 20 accusations of sexual misconduct and engaged in what the NFL itself would later call “predatory behavior” — they opened Wild Card Saturday. So it’s only natural that CJ Stroud’s exciting iteration would enjoy the same fate as the Texans battled Joe Flacco’s Cleveland Browns.
NFL fans noticed this delicious irony about the Texans getting their usual non-marquee playoff timeslot with likely the least amount of attention on it.