Texans Enter Playoffs as One of Worst Postseason Teams in Recent Memory

The Houston Texans are set to do more than just play a postseason game for the second straight year despite their quarterback depth chart that will swallow all of your joy.

They’ll also host a playoff game. And do it for the, yes, second straight year.

It’s at this moment when you should pause, look at the box score from Week 17 that shows a 24-17 Texans loss to the Tennessee Titans—the Matt Cassel-led Titans—and ponder an important question: Why do you watch football?

You watch for a lot of reasons. You watch because the strategy is compelling. You watch because there’s nothing more beautiful than a tip-toeing sideline catch on a precisely placed ball. You watch to see what creative way the Cleveland Browns can mercifully win a game, and then keep winning by losing a week later.

Most of all, though, you watch to be entertained.

It might not seem like that’s your motivation when the television is taking the brunt of brutal late-season anger. But you wouldn’t spend many hours on Sundays in the fall and winter carving an intricate couch groove if the product wasn’t entertaining. Early in the 2016 regular season the entertainment value fell, which is partly why ratings suffered as NFL viewers went elsewhere.

And that could happen again at some point during the Texans’ divisional-round playoff game, regardless of their opponent. Because without quarterback play that even approaches a competent level, they slot in right alongside the worst playoff teams in recent memory.

But hey, at least they’ll get to be the answer to a trivia question, as NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo noted. That’s something!

Texans will be the first team since the 1998 Dolphins to host a playoff game in a stadium that’s hosting the Super Bowl. Crazy drought.

— Mike Garafolo (@MikeGarafolo) December 25, 2016

The Texans’ awfulness and the reasons for it are rooted in their calamity at quarterback, which may have become worse if the concussion suffered by Tom Savage lingers.

His potential playoff absence comes after somewhat mysterious events. Savage was injured on a QB sneak early in the second quarter against the Titans. He went into the concussion protocol, was evaluated and then cleared to return. He was presumably fine and even came out to take a kneel down at the end of the half.

Then he was evaluated again during halftime and didn’t return. The Texans’ PR Twitter account passed along what could be the nail in any playoff advancement hopes:

.@HoustonTexans injury update: QB Tom Savage was reevaluated at halftime and is OUT with a concussion.

— Texans PR (@TexansPR) January 1, 2017

Savage isn’t your typical inexperienced starter. But he still shouldn’t be put in a position where he has to become anything resembling an offensive savior. Yet that’s the hole Texans head coach Bill …

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