What are the Texans' chances against the Colts this Sunday?
Sunday marks the first regular season game of the Lovie Smith Era as Texans head coach.If we are being honest with our assessment of the AFC South in 2022, it remains one of the weaker divisions overall in the National Football League. Also, I think if we're being honest, we would largely agree that the Indianapolis Colts are the most talented team of the four-team divisional bunch, and the Texans, while getting better, are still the most talent deficient.
So it would seem that Sunday's assignment, hosting and attempting to defeat the Indianapolis Colts, is a fairly daunting task, and the 8.5 point spread would seem to indicate that the oddsmakers agree with that assessment. However, there is some history at play here that helps the Texans. The first is more nostalgic than anything else, but I will remind Texan fans that the Texans are 2-0 in season openers hosting the Colts! Granted, Jon Weeks is the only player still left on either team who participated in those two games, all the way back in 2010 and 2011, but still, IT HAPPENED, PEOPLE! In 2010, Arian Foster announced to the world who he was with over 200 yards rushing in the opener, and in 2011, the Texans mopped the floor with the Colts in the Colts' first game...
As for more recent, more relevant history, how about this — the Colts have never won a season opener with Frank Reich as their head coach! Four season openers, four losses, and all of the losses were to teams that eventually missed the playoffs, some by a LOT. Here are those four games:The combined records of those teams at the end of the season totaled 19-46.
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