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Soon everything that just transpired will either be forgotten, or strange dots of memories. Did David Culley turn down a penalty just to punt, Brandin Cooks leap over helpless defensive backs, Philip Lindsay barely break two yards a carry, Nick Caserio trade Mark Ingream for a 2023 6th round pick, Laremy Tunsil sit out the entire season with a thum…

Everything has been ruined. The NFL ruined what was once perfect and square, and turned it into an oddly shaped nonsensical squiggle. 17 games. 18 weeks. More football that doesn’t need to exist. The Super Bowl pushed into Valentine’s Day. As a result, everything is squished together, into one mashed pile. Rather than have any time for reflection, …

No matter how badly you want something, this isn’t enough for something to occur. All I wanted was for the Tennessee Titans and Buffalo Bills to play in the postseason. Instead, Ryan Tannehill threw a late interception that turned into a Evan McPherson game winning field goal after Joe Burrow hit Ja’Marr Chase on a corner route, and Josh Allen gave…

This is vacation. I have a pink aquatic bird in my cup. Sunscreen slathered across my belly. My heart merry and bright. For I have spent eighteen weeks watching every Houston Texans game, watching the condensed version, watching the Coach’s film, and writing and talking about the Houston Texans. A football team devoid of questions. A crawl through …

Eight teams are still continuing their playoff dreams. Divisional round planning, trying to turn the thing they spent years envisioning into reality. Eight teams are also looking to find a new head coach. The Las Vegas Raiders, Denver Broncos, Jacksonville Jaguars, Miami Dolphins, Chicago Bears, Minnesota Vikings, New York Giants, and Houston Texan…

We’ve seen the metaphors before. Climbing through the tunnel of excrement, pushing the boulder to the hill, docking the submarine, waltzing through the toy aisle during Christmas time after accidentally attending an occult ritual and questioning the foundation of a marriage. Now we are the metaphor. We are experiencing something we used to connect …

A wise man once said, “I took this job simply because there’s 32 of these in this league. It is a pleasure, it is a privilege, it is an honor to be the head coach of one of these franchises and I happen to have that opportunity to do that now. Again, obviously I’m here simply because this is a bottom-line business and regardless of what had happene…

The last time I saw the Houston Texans play LIVE football, I was a freshman in college, and my good friend Taylor’s Uncle, took him, another friend, and I, to watch them play the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2009. We drank three underage Miller Lites and ate a hamburger before the game. His uncle left at halftime because said beers and hamburger made hi…

Next week you are going to be inundated with NFL Playoff Previews. There will be game previews, podcast previews, best bets, film reviews, statistical analysis, Twitter threads, and cable television discussions previewing the big games. These will all happen next week once the 2021 NFL Season comes to a closer. We are the early bird, the tortoise g…

Oh, look it’s another year. Remember that? Remember when. Back then when people said things like, “UGH. 2020, is it over yet?”, and “2021 needs to hurry up and get here,” while failing to realize time is the only finite resource that we have. Some strange and stupid idea that a change in the calendar will make all the things you hate simply go away…

In a lost season, where all hope sunk to the bottom of the sea last March, the Houston Texans needed, and searched desperately for some of it. Davis Mills has turned from unplayable to playable, hitting his floor of backup quarterback a season or two early, giving desire and hope that he may become a competent starting quarterback one day. Jonathan…

Can you hear those sleigh bells ring, the angels sing, and the fat man scream? Oh, it’s nearly Christmas. Over the last few weeks we have been gifted by an assortment of tremendous listener questions, and with the mailbag full, and spirits bright and merry, there’s no better time to empty it all out. On this episode of Battle Red Radio, Matt Weston…

2-11 versus 2-11. A game for the ages. The winner gets to call itself the third worst team in the league. The loser moves up to first overall pick territory. Two of the dumbest franchises were set to play an incredibly stupid game. We were given it all. Kickoff returned for touchdowns, a punt penalty that set up an opening drive touchdown, failed s…

I forgot how much I love football. The Houston Texans took that from me. After writing, talking, breaking down the film, and researching our favorite football team, who is in the midst of an incredible and terrible season, I forgot that football is beautiful. Justin Herbert deep passes, Tom Brady high pointing Mike Evans, Josh Allen carrying Buffal…

We’re all doing our best. Davis Mills is doing everything he can to win a game, David Culley is doing everything he can to build a team to the standard that he has created, Nick Caserio is doing everything he can to create a culture of his own, you are listening and still watching because this is something you just do, and we are still writing and …

The NFL’s salary cap is all something we kind of know a lot about. We know how salary cap space rolls over year to year, the June 1st designation, dead cap space, prorated roster bonuses, and what happens when a player is traded to a new team. There’s so much more to it than that. There is cash payment requirements, cash budgets, injury clauses, th…

It’s a murder’s row of winter holidays. The triple crown, a gauntlet of turkey, presents, and fireworks. The first one is done, and now we have trees in our living room, candles in our kitchen, the neighborhoods are aglow in lights, equipment taken out of spider web covered boxes and arranged to make the soul merry and bright. It’s about the giving…

We’re still here. Others have left. Most have logged off. But we are still here. Talking, watching, reviewing, asking the tough questions, getting things on the record, and being the conduit to the fans. I’m not talking about myself. I’m talking about Brandon K. Scott from Sports Radio 610, who joined Battle Red Radio to review this week’s loss to …

There will be turkeys, there will stuffing, there will be gravy rivers, there will be fun, but most of all, there will be some terrible football for everyone. Enjoy your bloated body, your late not shopping, your precious days of friends and family. On this episode of Battle Red Radio, Matt Weston and his good friend Taylor preview week twelve of t…

I love the Tennessee Titans. My teeth are little and blue from cooking up the good stuff with Mike Mularkey. Demarco Murray and Derrick Henry, these jorts don’t bleed. Kendall Lamm, Josh Kline, Quinton Spain, it don’t matter baby, we’re running the outside zone. Marcus Mariota v. Denver spurned the glorious rise of Ryan Tannehill play action. Mike …

I’m sorry. I thought if we got everyone together, and we all brought our hopes, dreams, and fears, and boiled them into some awful cauldron, that we could create something beautiful and wonderful. Friends living, and laughing, and loving, and reminiscing on all the fun times we had this season. Tyrod Taylor’s first six quarters, the fake-fake punt,…

We all had a bye week last week. The Houston Texans were off. The world stopped. The clocks froze. Even BATTLE RED RADIO took a week off. Unfortunately, life strangled us last week. But this week we are BACK. BACK. BACK. We missed you. On this episode of Battle Red Radio, Matt Weston and his good friend Taylor preview Week 11 of the NFL season. Top…

The abyss, the bottom, the void, these terms are rocks that make up the Texans lexicon, for those of us who write, talk, watch, and love this football team. We get asked all the team, is this as bad as it can get, have we found the bottom, was this the worst game in a newest slew of terrible games, and I can ensure, we have not. Things can get bett…

Beans are one of my favorite foods. I get a pound of black beans, lime juice, jalepeno, and onion, toss it in the Instapot, then wait a hour. I get a pound of pinto beans, bacon, barbecue sauce, jalapeno, onion, and toss it in the Instapot, then wait a hour. I’ll add them to ground beef, or quinoa, or eggs, or eat them plain. High in fiber and prot…