Entering last year, one thing was clear: the schedule-makers had had enough of Bill O'Brien.
To open the season, ol' Bob's Houston Texans had the immense pleasure of facing the Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens, the two runaway favorites to win the AFC Championship. After that, their reprieve was to face the Pittsburgh Steelers, another team with playoff aspirations.
Shockingly, things didn't go so well! The Texans lost all three of those games and then lost at home the following week to the Minnesota Vikings, pushing O'Brien from looking at a playsheet to looking at the classifieds.