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Texans go for the jugular Twitter at Titans after beating ‘Fake Oilers’ in Week 18

The Texans made sure to clap back at the Tennessee Titans for their bad taste in wearing a Houston Oilers uniform.

The Tennessee Titans have worn their Houston Oilers jerseys twice against the Houston Texans.

They’ve yet to beat the new kids on the block that call H-Town home in those threads following a 23-14 loss on Sunday in the regular-season finale.

Best of all? The Texans’ social media remains undefeated when coming up with content to clapback at the Titans.

Earlier in the week, Tennessee changed its profile photo on X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram to the iconic oil derrick from the Oilers days.

As soon as the clock hit zero over at Nissan Stadium, Houston wasted little time firing back while making the team with the No. 1 overall hold another L to close out a bad year.

Houston kept the rig in place in titled it “Expectation.” On the opposing side, the team rearranged the oil derrick to form an L and titled it “Reality.”

That was only the beginning of the trolling.  Houston also hopped on the face that Tennessee still tries to act like it has ties with the Oilers by posting a photo of cooking oil with the caption, “found the oiL in tennessee.”

When you get up close to the bottle, the label reads:

Texans Win
Texans at oiLers
January 5, 2025
HOU-23 (W)TEN-14(L)

For the second time since moving to Tennessee in 1996, the Titans have suffered a 14-loss season. Over the three decades they stood in Houston, the Oilers only lost 14 games.

Who said moving was always the best thing for one’s career?

The Texans continue their run toward a Super Bowl with a matchup against the Los Angeles Chargers on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. in the wild-card round.

Texans odds: Houston opens as home underdog against Chargers in wild-card round

The Houston Texans might be in the playoffs, but they’re underdogs on the road against the surging Los Angeles Chargers.

The Houston Texans can be the third team to clinch the spot in the divisional round of the playoffs on Saturday afternoon at NRG Stadium.

The only thing in their way? A four-quarter battle in Nashville with the surging Los Angeles Chargers wild-card round. The last time Jim Harbaugh was in Houston, he walked away with a national title at Michigan.

Houston (10-7) enters Saturday’s showdown at Nissan Stadium as a 3-point home underdog against Los Angeles (11-6), according to odds from BetMGM. The over/under is currently set at 43.5, while the money line is at -165.

The Texans are preparing for a date with one of the league’s top defenses. In Year 1 of the Harbaugh regime, Jesse Minter turned a one-thought promising unit back into a legitimate force headlined by Derwin James and Khalil Mack.

Offensively, Justin Herbert has been consistent in helping Los Angeles secure its first 10-win season in three years. He finished with just under 4,000 passing yards and 23 touchdown passes against just three interceptions.

The Chargers are fifth in the NFL in turnover differential.

Houston is coming off perhaps its most uplifting in of the regular season with a 23-14 road victory over the Tennessee Titans. Starters rested after the opening drive, leading to a dominant day on the ground by running back Dameon Pierce.

“When you start clicking at the right time, you just want to keep seeing this,” Texans running back Joe Mixon told reporters. “Keep trending upward. And pretty much we came out there and executed the game plan.”

Titans get No. 1 pick because of loss to Texans

The Houston Texans win in Week 18 helped the Tennessee Titans earned the No. 1 pick in April’s NFL Draft.

The Houston Texans won on Sunday.

In a sense, so did the Tennessee Titans.

With a 23-16 Texans win, mostly with a crop of offensive backups, the Titans have secured the No.1 overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft.

A victory in Nashville would have actually knocked the Titans out of reach and dropped them down outside the top five.

However, Brian Callahan’s roster needed a bit of help.

Tennessee did not enter the day with the No. 1 pick,  but moved past New England, who won with backup quarterback Joe Milton III starting against mostly the Buffalo Bills backups.

Tennessee’s strength of schedule is worse than the Giants and Browns, allowing them to be ahead of both teams despite having the same records.

The Titans will have to make decisions on Callahan’s future as well as general manager Ran Carthon. The franchise also likely will consider drafting a quarterback with the top selection, or trade it for ample draft capital.

 The draft’s top passers include Colorado’s Sheduer Sanders, son of NFL Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, and Miami’s Cam Ward, who became the NCAA’s all-time passing touchdown leader this season.

The Titans wearing the throwback Houston Oilers uniforms against the Texans was fitting because Tennessee has never selected No. 1 overall but did twice while it was the Oilers. Their predecessors selected defensive end John Matuszak (1973) and Earl Campbell (1978).

Tennessee has had a slow fall from the top of the AFC South, which it won back-to-back years in 2020 and 2021. The Titans reached the AFC Conference Championship in 2019 but blew a double-digit lead to the Kansas City Chiefs. Tennessee has not made the playoffs since 2021 or won more than seven games in a season.

The AFC South has seen an influx of youth at the quarterback position in recent years, as each team has selected a quarterback in the top five of the NFL Draft; Trevor Lawrence, Jacksonville, 2021; Anthony Richardson, Indianapolis, 2023; C.J. Stroud, Houston, 2023.

The NFL draft will be held just at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisc., on April 24-26.