HOUSTON -- Houston Texans fans are struggling to pick up the pieces of a 2015 season that was equal parts maddening, encouraging and logic-defying. A humiliating 2-5 start, followed by a thrilling 7-2 rally was capped off by one of the worst playoff performances by a quarterback in NFL history. The man responsible for that performance (and for much of the roller coaster-quality of the season) is journeyman quarterback Brian Hoyer.
"As a child, I never truly grasped how to read an NFL defense," the embattled eighth-year quarterback admitted to reporters this week, claiming that it's held him back his entire playing career.