This offseason, former Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Robert Woods signed with the Houston Texans, and he’s already seeing some comparisons to his old team, which won the Super Bowl just a few years after finishing near the bottom of the league.
The Texans finished last season with a 3-13-1 record and now have a new head coach in DeMeco Ryans. Woods thinks that’s a very similar situation as the Rams were in 2017, coming off a 4-12 season and adding new head coach Sean McVay.
“I think a lot of hungry players, hungry coaches,” Woods said according to Brian Barefield of USAToday.com. “I feel like this is a similar situation to when I came to L.A. with a young McVay. Some say it was a rebuild. I feel like it was just a team buying into your coach, believing in the coach, believing in the system, and I think coach Ryans has that here. Got a lot of young players buying into this defense, into this culture, and we can change this environment.”
Obviously, it worked out for the Rams as they finished the 2017 season with an 11-5 record, winning the division. They also advanced to the Super Bowl the following season and won the Super Bowl during the 2021 season. We’ll have to see if the Texans can have the same sort of success in the near future.
