# Why the Houston Texans are a legitimate Super Bowl threat

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Podcast: [The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-athletic-football-show-a-show-about-the-nfl-1365826)
Published: 2026-07-02T07:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

The FTN Football Almanac is as close as we have to religious text in the NFL analytics world. The 2026 version is set to drop shortly, so Robert Mays welcomed the founder of the Almanac, FTN's director of analytics Aaron Schatz, to this episode of The Athletic Football Show to highlight the most surprising nuggets from this year's edition. 0:00 Welcome to the show 2:01 Texans Super Bowl threat 12:30 2026 Super Bowl was almost impossible 18:50 Gap between Bears offense and defense 25:38 Patriots ease of schedule 32:10 Bengals, Cowboys playoff chances 38:34 Rams 13 personnel 41:36 Best/worst overside coverage corners 46:20 Jets defensive improvement 49:35 Steelers offense oddity 54:03 Jordan Love with vs without pressure Host: Robert Mays Executive Producer: Michael Beller Senior Producer: Katy Duffy Social Producer: Scott Krinch Follow Robert on Bluesky: @robertmays.bsky.social Follow Robert on X: @RobertMays Theme song: Haunted Written by Dylan Slocum, Trevor Dietrich, Ruben Duarte, Kyle McAulay, and Meredith VanWoert / Performed by Spanish Love Songs Courtesy of Pure Noise / By arrangement with Bank Robber Music, LLC Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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