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Houston Texans tied with Arizona Cardinals for worst odds to win Super Bowl LVIII

The Houston Texans and Arizona Cardinals both have the worst odds to win Super Bowl LVIII at the end of the 2023 NFL season.

Imagine if the Houston Texans won the Super Bowl.

If such a fantasy became a reality, it would also make whoever wagered on the Texans to do so filthy rich.

According to Tipico, the Texans are tied with the Arizona Cardinals for the worst odds to Super Bowl LVIII at +15000. Even the Indianapolis Colts — who have no coach and equal ambiguity at quarterback — have better odds than the Texans at +10000.

Across the rest of the AFC South, the Tennessee Titans are +7000. The Jacksonville Jaguars have the best and reasonable odds at +2900. For the Jaguars to even qualify for the Big Game would be a milestone in their franchise’s history as the Jaguars have never won the AFC Championship Game.

The five teams atop the list are no surprise. The Kansas City Chiefs are given +520 to repeat. The Buffalo Bills have +700 to win their franchise’s first Super Bowl in what would be their fifth try. The San Francisco 49ers, who have decisions to make at quarterback this season, have +750 odds. The Philadelphia Eagles are +800 while the Cincinnati Bengals are +900.

Winning the Super Bowl is a directive that DeMeco Ryans set out in his opening press conference on Feb. 2.

“We want to develop a great team here that we can deliver wins to the city of Houston,” Ryans said. “We want to deliver a championship here to the city of Houston, and that’s what it will be about.”

How the Texans go about obtaining that championship will be fascinating to watch, and Houston sports fans would gladly go along that journey rather than wait for the Texans to be some intermezzo act between the end of the Houston Astros’ season and the date pitchers and catchers report in Palm Beach.

Super Bowl LVIII returns to the desert in a sense as Allegiant Stadium, home of the Las Vegas Raiders, will settle the showdown between the 2023 AFC and NFC champions.

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Johnathan Joseph laments not winning Super Bowl with Texans

Former Houston Texans cornerback Johnathan Joseph joined the “Texans Talk Podcast” and talked about the missed chance to win a Super Bowl in Houston.

Last Thursday on the Texans Wire’s Texans Talk Podcast, hosts Mark Lane and John Crumpler were able to sit down with two-time Pro Bowl cornerback Johnathan Joseph and discuss his tenure with the Houston Texans.

Joseph played a decade in Houston from 2011-2019 after being drafted in the first round by the Cincinnati Bengals in 2006 and is arguably the greatest corner in Texans history. He played a premier role atop the corner depth chart during the team’s first division championships and some of the best defenses of the past ten years.

As such, it was only appropriate to ask Joseph what his favorite memory was playing with the Texans. His answer, despite both team and individual success, spoke to just how talented he believed the defenses to be during his time

“Honestly winning the first playoff game and obviously winning the division. Just being on the team with guys like J.J. Watt, DeAndre Hopkins, [Jadeveon] Clowney, Brian Cushing, Kareem Jackson, Arian Foster, Andre Johnson. I don’t just want to start naming off guys because there’s too many. Antonio Smith, Connor Barwin, Wade Smith, Duane Brown, when I start naming those guys first thing, I get pissed about is how we had all those players and didn’t make it to a Super Bowl… My memory is just being with those guys and transforming how the Texans were viewed through the NFL

Joseph and his team of extremely talented defenders certainly did transform how the new franchise in Houston was viewed around the league. After winning the AFC South a grand total of zero times from their establishment in 2003 all the way up to 2010, the Texans captured six division titles during 2011 and brought Houston back to the NFL playoffs for the first time since the Houston Oilers in 1993.

The all-star caliber cast in Houston likely leaves a sour taste in the mouth of everyone involved that they were never able to advance to the AFC Championship Game or to football’s premier game in the Super Bowl. Unfortunate and untimely injuries to players like Matt Schaub and Deshaun Watson made that quite difficult.

Now, it’s up to a new era of Texans players and a new era of Houston cornerbacks to try to pilot the defense back to what it once was. Fans will have to see if first round draft pick Derek Stingley can elevate to the heights that Joseph achieved.

Texans QB Deshaun Watson wants to give DE J.J. Watt a Super Bowl ring

Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson says he wants the be the one to give defensive end J.J. Watt his first Super Bowl win.

There are some unknown factors surrounding defensive end J.J. Watt’s career with the Houston Texans, but it is still one of quarterback Deshaun Watson’s goals to deliver the former 2011 first-round pick a Super Bowl win.

The three-time Pro Bowler talked about how he envisions the franchise’s first Super Bowl win going.

“Hopefully he’s still here in this organization because I want to be the one that gives him that Super Bowl ring and be that quarterback he continues to talk about that gave him that first one,” Watson said. “That’s my idea. I definitely want him here, so that’s the plan for me and that’s my take on that, is to keep him in Houston. But this is a crazy business.”

The crazy business saw Watson’s biggest target, three-time All-Pro receiver DeAndre Hopkins, traded in the 2020 offseason. That was part of the moves of former coach and general manager Bill O’Brien, who was fired Oct. 5.

With a new general manager and a new coach incoming, there is no guarantee they will value Watt for his contributions to the franchise, but where he is entering his 11th season in the NFL.

“I know he still has time to play,” said Watson. “I don’t know his contract and stuff like that so I’m going to stay away from all that. New head coach, new GM, all that stuff is definitely new to me.”

Part of how Watson and Watt bonded was in the 2018 offseason when both were working through season-ending injuries. For Watt, it was a left tibial plateau fracture in Week 5 of 2017, and for Watson, it was a torn ACL sustained in practice on Nov. 2. In their rehabilitation process, their chemistry was formed.

Said Watson: “J.J.’s a big part of my career. From the time when we both had injuries, learning from him, watching him, seeing his production, his preparation, his leadership — just everything. He’s a big part of my career and I respect him and I thank him for everything that he’s done for me.”

Watson just wants another shot to do one big thing for Watt.