Texans' Defense Makes NFL History for Wrong Reasons

It's a first of its kind in NFL history, but not quite the history you want to be a part of.

And of course, the limitations that have prevented the Texans from seeing further success in the win-loss column can be boiled down to their offensive firepower and effectiveness that's been glaring through those six games of action. They're number one for scoring defense, but sit in the bottom-12 for scoring offense.

Texans First in NFL History to Have Losing Record With No. 1 Scoring Defense

The offensive line’s stability has been up and down throughout. C.J. Stroud has been under fire in the pocket because of it. Play-calling under first-year coordinator Nick Caley has seen its fair bit of questions. Without any explosive and consistent playmakers to show themselves outside of Nico Collins, it's been hard to trust this scoring unit.

That's a recipe for a calamity brewing in Houston, if there isn't one bubbling in the building already. If the Texans want to build up a playoff-level core to make that late-season push into the postseason for a third-straight year, those tweaks offensively have to come soon.

And they'll have to make that turnaround without a bye week ahead of them, as they already cashed that mid-season break in for Week 6, just to come out flat vs. the Seattle Seahawks on just 12 points generated from the offense.

Week 8 vs. the San Francisco 49ers to start a three-game home-stand could be the spark needed to get this operation back on track. Yet, nearly halfway through the season, there isn't much time left on the horizon to make those necessary changes.