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Houston Texans open as slight underdog to Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 12

Sometimes as I lay awake at night, waiting for the sleep paralysis demons to come get me, I’ll think about how sudden the change came for the Houston Texans (+1)

. For years, we’ve been slogging through some of the worst football ever to be put on television. The change was supposed to be slow, plodding, and, as with everything we’ve come to expect from the Texans, conservative.

So to see the expectations from the wider football world for the Texans go from “they might get six wins but no way they smell the playoffs” to “yeah, they could get to the playoffs, but.