The NFL released the 2024-25 regular season schedule, and much like the past few years, teams gave their best shot when it came to announcing their individual games, and it looks like the Houston Texans may have won the day.

CJ Stroud in uniform. Mason Jar

To announce their Week 11 matchup against the Dallas Cowboys, the Houston Texans social media team decided to use a hydraulic press to crush a Mason Jar candle holder filled with the same color the Cowboys use on their logo and jerseys.

Outside of the Mason Jar was a sticky note that read, “It’s our year,” which is something the fan base is known for saying every year before the team ultimately crashes and burns late in the year.

The matchup of the Houston Texans and Dallas Cowboys will be shown on the hydraulic press as it happens.

The NFL Schedule Is Out!

On Wednesday, the Houston Texans, the defending AFC South champions, and the rest of the NFL learned their hopeful path to Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans on schedule release day.

 

The Texans were aware of their opponent going into the sophomore campaign of the C.J. Stroud, Will Anderson, and DeMeco Ryans era. Because they won the division, the Texans attracted the other AFC division winners, including the Kansas City Chiefs, the two-time defending Super Bowl champions.

The Baltimore Ravens, another division winner, were announced earlier in the day to play the Texans on Christmas Day. The home game is scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m. CT on Wednesday, December 25. It is a stream-only game on Netflix.

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The squad was also aware that because of the intra- and inter-conference rotation, it would play opponents from the AFC East and NFC North.

Houston Texans are Flirting With Bringing JJ Watt Back To Team

J.J. Watt (Photo by James Gill/Getty Images)
In one year, the Houston Texans turned their laughingstock of a team into one of the best in the AFC. They won the AFC South division and a playoff game in CJ Stroud’s first year.

Now, the team has been rumored to want to bring JJ Watt back into the fold.

After 12 seasons and three NFL Defensive Player of the Year awards, JJ Watt announced his retirement from the NFL in 2022. He went out with a bang, recording 12.5 sacks for the Arizona Cardinals at the age of 33.

Yet Watt hasn’t completely ruled out a return if injuries decimate the Texans’ defensive line halfway through the 2024 campaign.

“I very much don’t want that to ever be the case,” Watt said of the Texans needing him because of injuries. “I hope everybody stays extremely healthy and they dominate and they don’t need any other bodies. And I just get to watch and enjoy from the couch,” he said via SportsRadio 610 in Houston.