Divisional champions, Divisional champion problems.   

The schedule does look pretty intimidating as of right now.  Playing the AFC East as opposed to the North looks slightly easier.  Playing the NFC North as opposed to the South looks slightly difficult.  And of course, you'll have to play the best teams in the other divisions...which definitely looks scary.  The good news, of course, is that NFL is an unpredictable league...on average only half of the teams return to the playoff each year.  (Of course the Texans are in that list.)

At the end of the day, you have to hope that you've done well enough in the off-season and draft to improve your team to make headway in the league standings.  And right up there, is to stay healthy enough throughout the season to let the carefully crafted roster to perform together, as opposed to opening up a huge exploitable hole.

Figured I'd throw this in hear as well, and I truly mean it with no insult to the Jaguars.  But the fact that I've seen the media and this message board claim so many times that the Jags had "won the offseason," only to see that it wasn't reflected in the upcoming season, has me legitimately nervous for the Texans in 2024--with all the media predicting a very similar thing.  I'm only slightly superstitious, but I do feel like I should sacrifice a chicken, throw some salt over my left shoulder, and perform some crazy dance to ward off the hex (though I really don't know the steps.)

PS. The draft capital is slightly above where it should be (in terms of record) as the Texans finished 27th in the league.  This was due to the Texans trading their own pick as opposed to the Browns pick in the Will Anderson trade.

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