Houston added to the lead with a two-yard touchdown pass from C.J. Stroud to Dalton Schultz. But the Raiders were determined to ruin the Holiday game. Jeanty struck again, with a 51 yard run to make things tighter than Santa trying to get down your chimney.<\/p>\n
The Texans needed a big drive and got one. The dagger was a Stroud throw to Nico Collins inside the 15-yard line to kill the clock.<\/p>\n
The stat sheet may say that Nico had four catches, but he also drew two huge pass interference penalties \u2013 one to set up the Schultz TD and another to get the Texans a crucial first down from deep in their end on the final drive.<\/p>\n
Style points don’t matter. This was a hard-fought victory against a team that was playing like their record was reversed. And the Texans must keep winning because the AFC foes around them keep coming up with W’s.<\/p>\n
Now comes a big test against the Chargers. It’s a shortened week to heal bodies and get the right X’s and O’s together to deal with a team that’s won four straight and seven of eight.<\/p>\n
Enjoy the win and the egg nog for now. We’ll talk to you from the booth in Los Angeles on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston added to the lead with a two-yard touchdown pass from C.J. Stroud to Dalton Schultz. But the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[91303,7,34,221,253,2368,90498,6,222,37417],"class_list":{"0":"post-619718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-2025-reg16-stories-texans-vs-raiders","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-homepage-cp","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-houston-texans","13":"tag-houstontexans","14":"tag-las-vegas-raiders-at-houston-texans-2025-reg-16","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-texans","17":"tag-vanderblog"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}