2013 Texans Opponents

[HPF Bob]

Since this was written in 2009 for the 2010 season, the AFC West rotation should already be modeled for us.

Teams that have road games against Denver and Oakland will get home games against Kansas City and San Diego. The opposite scenario will also be true. The same format of home-and-away games with the paired cities holds true for the NFC as well.

In 2010, we played Oakland and Denver on the road (remember the Tebow game?)

2010 results from Pro Football Reference.com

Therefore, we should get Oakland and Denver at home, Kansas City and San Diego on the road. As for the NFC West, it's still an open question whether we get a road trip to SF or Seattle but apparently not both.

Two additional points:

1) It's just the coincidence that our rotation brought us the NFC West and the AFC West in the same season. This is apparently what happened to the NFC East in 2008 that prompted the changes.

2) While people might not be sympathetic about Houston flying to the west coast multiple times, the division also contains Jacksonville and Tennessee which are in the Eastern time zone (Indy might be too).

[chuck]

Originally Posted by HPF Bob

2) While people might not be sympathetic about Houston flying to the west coast multiple times...

I don't see what the hell the problem is.

-Jim Crane

[Joshua]

I get the time zone issues and acknowledge that there may be something to that, but the travel stuff is overblown in my opinion.

I don't recall where I heard it, but I heard someone ask a pretty funny question--Is there any other profession where a first class/chartered jet flight to a posh 5-star hotel where every possible thing you might need will be provided to you, largely free of charge and without you needing to do much more than ask, is discussed as if it is some horrific burden? Has anyone ever said that, for example, a businessman or a lawyer was understandably not at his best today because he had to take a first class flight into town the day before and stay in a suite at the Four Seasons?

[chuck]

Originally Posted by Joshua

I get the time zone issues and acknowledge that there may be something to that, but the travel stuff is overblown in my opinion.

I don't recall where I heard it, but I heard someone ask a pretty funny question--Is there any other profession where a first class/chartered jet flight to a posh 5-star hotel where every possible thing you might need will be provided to you, largely free of charge and without you needing to do much more than ask, is discussed as if it is some horrific burden? Has anyone ever said that, for example, a businessman or a lawyer was understandably not at his best today because he had to take a first class flight into town the day before and stay in a suite at the Four Seasons?

You have to remember that the impetus for all of this was the Patriots who can't look at a picture of the beach without getting sand in their collective vagina.

[HPF Bob]

A flight to KC or STL shouldn't be that taxing but taking a trip from the East Coast to Phoenix or Denver isn't feel that much better than traveling to Seattle or San Diego.

[Keith]

Originally Posted by chuck

You have to remember that the impetus for all of this was the Patriots who can't look at a picture of the beach without getting sand in their collective vagina.

This is true. The east coast bias is in full play here. The AFC East may not offer a midwest alternative (as Miami, Buffalo, NJ, and Foxboro are all near the eastern coast) and the NFC East has just one (Arlington), so why the West division has to give up any geographical advantage here is lame.

Honestly though, had the NFL set this up this way from the beginning (i.e. the initial 8-year cycle of 2002-2009), then this would all be moot.

[WMH]

Houston Texans (@HoustonTexans) tweeted:
Texans 2013 regular season opponents are set already: (Home) DEN, OAK, STL, SEA, NE, IND, TEN, JAX (Road) KC, SD, AZ, SF, BAL, IND, TEN, JAX

[HPF Bob]

Originally Posted by WMH

Houston Texans (@HoustonTexans) tweeted:
Texans 2013 regular season opponents are set already: (Home) DEN, OAK, STL, SEA, NE, IND, TEN, JAX (Road) KC, SD, AZ, SF, BAL, IND, TEN, JAX

That's huge because SF is a much better road team than Seattle if you judge them on this year's results. I'm sticking with 12-4 for now.