The Houston Texans will make history Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 5 at NRG Stadium.
For the first time in franchise history, they will have a Black quarterback and a Black head coach when Deshaun Watson takes a snap under center and interim coach Romeo Crennel wears the headset from the sidelines.
“I didn’t even know that,” Watson said. “That’s pretty dope. That’s pretty cool. History is going to continue to grow, especially with the times going on right now.”
The Texans will become one of the 20 active teams in the NFL to have had a Black head coach.
I asked Deshaun Watson what will it mean to him and Romeo Crennel to become the first black QB/head coach combo in franchise history on Sunday:
"That's pretty cool. History is going to continue to grow, especially with the times going on right now." #Texans pic.twitter.com/pkncHLWwQC
— Coty M. Davis (@CotyDavis_24) October 7, 2020
As promising as it is to turn another positive page in history, Watson and even Crennel are focused on the immediate task at hand: getting the Texans off the schneid at 0-4 and recovering their postseason hopes.
“Me and RAC, what we want to do is make sure that this team and locker room is ready and focused to go win on Sunday,” said Watson. “We got to make sure that we’re prepared. We got to make sure that we put sure we put in the work throughout the week, make sure we’re healthy, and we got to expect to go out there and win. And that’s the mentality that we got to have for, not just this locker room and for this team, but this organization, for this city.”
With 13 weeks remaining in the regular season for Houston, including the bye week, the goal before Watson and Crennel is to keep out the negativity that could easily creep back in because of how difficult the challenge is, and the body of failure that has been assembled through the first four weeks.
“The next 12 weeks, 13 weeks, we got to be positive and we got to continue to grow and we got to continue to stick as one as a city, as a whole, as an organization,” said Watson. “That’s what I preach, and that’s what we’ve both been preaching.”
