“I’ve been thinking about this for a long time,” Stroud stated after the win, by means of the reliable transcript. “Y’all deserve to feel special. Y’all deserve to root the Texans on. Not winning since 2021, I think it was around Christmas, that is not flying for anybody in this building. I want them to know we’re fighting our tails off every day to make sure y’all walk around with Texans gear pride, y’all walk around with that swag that we walk around with when we get a W.”
It’s a tender season, however the bitterness of the previous few seasons in Houston has been wiped away underneath DeMeco Ryans. To a person, Texans gamers stated the brand new trainer preached the significance of breaking the streak of house futility.
“DeMeco came in and he put up a date,” tight finish Dalton Schultz stated. “It’s the last time that the Texans won a game at home. At the forefront of the week, we were honed in on just being able to win at home. There’s always room for improvement, but that was a great team win and we needed that one.”
Stroud has led the early season turnaround that has the Texans in the thick of an AFC South race, with each department membership sitting at 2-2.
Sunday, the No. 2 general pick out finished 16-of-30 passes for 306 yards with two touchdowns and no choices. It’s his 3rd consecutive recreation with 250-plus passing yards, 2-plus go TDs and 0 INTs — the longest streak by way of any rookie since a minimum of 1970. He joined Gardner Minshew (2019) as the one gamers with 30-plus go makes an attempt and zero interceptions in each and every in their first 4 profession begins.
Stroud turned into the primary participant in NFL historical past with 1,200-plus go yards and 0 INTs over the primary 4 profession video games (Dak Prescott is the one different participant since 1970 with 1,000-plus go yards and zero INTs), consistent with NFL Research. Stroud’s 1,212 yards handed Andrew Luck for second-most all-time in a participant’s first 4 profession video games, at the back of best Cam Newton’s 1,386 yards (Newton had a 5-5 TD-INT ratio).
Reminder: Stroud submit those numbers in spite of a particularly banged-up offensive line.
For the Ohio State product who grew up in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., finishing the house dropping streak used to be paramount for the lovers.
“For me I take that real personal because I don’t like being bagged on my teams,” he stated. “When my Lakers lose, I be pissed. I take that stuff real serious, man. It’s up to us to work every day and put the work in. You’ve seen, those Steelers fans came and showed out today in our stadium, and we sent them home. I think our fans felt the energy, ‘Man, we aren’t playing today from the get-go.’ I just want to say, we’re going to keep fighting every day just so y’all can walk around with that swag. I think that’s huge for this team. That’s something that we want to keep building on, and it’s a blessing to be able to be in Houston, a great town with a lot of stuff to do, great people, Southern hospitality to its finest, and I’m falling in love with the city little by little. It’s a blessing.”
If Stroud continues at the trajectory indicated by way of his first 4 NFL begins, the Texans may not have to fret about 600-day house droughts any more.
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