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NFL Week 7 Disaster: Seahawks 27, Texans 19


As we sat around for the Houston Texans’ bye week for the last 15 days, coming off of two very lopsided wins over Tennessee and Baltimore, the big question that we all pondered — were those two wins real? Was the improvement actual improvement by the Texans or a precipitous drop in opponent quality.

On Monday night, late in the evening In Seattle, we got our answer. The Texans’ two wins in Weeks 4 and 5 were counterfeit. They were fraudulent. If I can quote some mafia Italian, they were FUGAZI. The Texans are the same disorganized, undisciplined, poorly coached outfit that they were in Weeks 1, 2, and 3.

The Seattle Seahawks beat the Texans on Monday night by a score of 27-19, in a game that was only a one score game because the Seahawks seemed to want to let the Texans hang around, with several careless turnovers in the second half. The Texans acted with the killer instinct of a field mouse trying to avoid a hawk. 

The Texans now sit at 2-4, but their record is way down the list of issues with this team. Right now, their offense is a disjointed mess, with no solutions in sight. The mistakes this team makes look like bad attempts at TikTok challenges. Their head coach might not be a good head coach. Oh yeah, and now Nico Collins is concussed. 

Let’s get to winners and losers: 

WINNERS

4. Will Anderson

As this game was sliding into the toilet throughout the second half, the one guy who was still showing up was Will Anderson. When the Texans offense was running stagnant all night, the one guy who went and got the Texans a touchdown was Anderson, on an end zone strip sack of Sam Darnold, and the fumble recovery for the score. 

3. Jaxon Smith-Njigba

JSN came into this game leading the league in receiving yards, and this was after nearly the entire NFL had a one game jump on him, having played on Thursday and Sunday. He lived up to the hype, with 8 catches for 123 yards and a touchdown, beating All Pro Derek Stingley in the process. 

2. George Springer

We interrupt the coverage of this gawd awful football game to play a little game of “remember when.” Remember when George Springer used to hit home runs like this for the Houston Astros? 

Very happy for Springer, and VERY happy that the people of Seattle got to experience some level of soul crushing disappointment on this same day.

1. The Houston Rockets

The Houston Texans suck right now. This is undeniable. They can only beat gimpy, injury riddled teams with crappy quarterback play. If they are playing a team of any substance, even if they win the turnover battle by three (evidently), they can’t win. The Dodgers are in the World Series, while the Astros sit at home. The only saving race in our lives are the Houston Rockets. Kevin Durant’s debut is tonight. A new era begins. As Princess Leia once said, “Help me, Obi Wan Udoka. You’re my only hope.” 

LOSERS

4. Nico Collins

I hate putting Nico in this category, because on nights like last night, he is usually the only thing going for the Texans. Unfortunately, Collins had a huge drop in the first half on a play that would have gone for 30 to 40 yards after a catch and run. Ultimately, Collins left the game with a concussion, which on a short week leading up to Week 8, is incredibly problematic. 

3. Azeez Al-Shaair 

Azeez Al-Shaair is one of the players on defense where subscribing to Ryans’ SWARM mentality gets him in trouble sometimes. The most famous example was the beheading of Trevor Lawrence last season in Jacksonville, but Al-Shaair popped up again in this game with a completely useless and silly (and illegal) dragging to the ground of Sam Darnold out of bounds, on a play that would have forced a Seahawks field goal attempt on fourth down. Instead, the penalty kept the drive alive, and the Seahawks would score a touchdown a few plays later. It was a stupid four point mistake by Al-Shaair. Completely unnecessary.

2. Nick Caley  

Wow, where to begin. I could probably write an entire article for Caley’s disappointing return from the bye week. All of the creativity and execution that we saw offensively just before the bye week, it’s like it never happened. It’s like it was a two week fever dream, and now we landed back in Kansas like Dorothy, only instead of a bunch of random farmhands welcoming us home, we have Dare Ogunbowale, Laken Tomlinson, and Braxton Berrios inexplicably as part of our lives. The part of this game that was “peak Caley” was the two attempts to run Woody Marks over the Texans’ abysmal left side of their offensive line on 3rd and 1, and 4th and 1, in Texans territory, in the third quarter. Needless to say, it was embarrassingly unsuccessful. Caley is ruining C.J. Stroud, and the offense feels like it is still at square one. As of right now, Caley is a worse hire than Bobby Slowik, and it’s not even close.

1. DeMeco Ryans

I hate saying this because I am a big fan of DeMeco Ryans, but there is now way you can even squint your way to saying this is even a decently coached football team, let alone well coached. They hurt themselves with silly penalties (10 in all, on Monday), bad play calling, and poor game management. The decision to kick off to the Seahawks just before the two minute warning, down eight points with one timeout left is a fireable offense in the real world. That is amateur hour type stuff. It essentially ended the Texans’ chances of getting the ball back. Ultimately, what actually ended those chances was Tim Settle getting a 15 yard penalty for unnecessary roughness on third down, but I digress. Look, DeMeco Ryans isn’t getting fired, even if this season goes into the toilet. The McNairs believe in him. However, he hasn’t shown a great acumen for hiring key positions, and his decision making this season, in personnel and in-game, has been very questionable. 

This article appears in Jan 1 – Dec 31, 2025.

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