Sweet under-the-radar wins | Daily Brew

There are many season-shaping wins Texans fans and media talk about through the years. There are underrated ones that occasionally get their due. But here is the list of the unsung, under the radar triumphs that seldom seem to get brought up in these conversations. If these were songs they might not make a Spotify play list. But they deserve your attention.

The committee (that’s a committee of one, me) has compiled these from the last decade. The under-the-radar wins from the first decade will be for another column. And you can bet I’ll be including the fact that the team beat two playoff squads in year one. That the Texans knocked off a Super Bowl team in year two. That….

Editor’s Note: Stop right there, Vandermeer! You’re going off on a tangent again. Just get to the under-the-radar wins of the last decade.

OK, let’s count these down –

Hear me out on this one. This is Davis Mills’ first win. And he was squaring off against and beating number one overall pick Trevor Lawrence. People talk about the victory over the Chargers a week later. But this one was in the division against a refreshed Jacksonville team, newly free of Urban Meyer. And the Texans took it to them. This might be the start of a long time series of very interesting match ups between these two QBs.

This ditty was on the comeback trail from a 2-5 start to a division title. J.J. Watt sacked Drew Brees twice as the Sean Payton-Brees combination was held without a TD for the first time ever. The ’15 Houston D would finish 3rd in the league as the first three years of the O’Brien era yielded some excellent defensive performances under coordinator Romeo Crennel, including our number one selection here.

This was the season with the Texans best record, 12-4. The wins everyone talks about are Week 3 at Denver, the Week 5 MNF win at the Jets and the two game marathon overtime…