{"id":559356,"date":"2026-04-02T02:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/559356\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T02:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:09:07","slug":"cal-mcnair-were-totally-behind-c-j-stroud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/559356\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal McNair: We&#8217;re totally behind C.J. Stroud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>C.J. Stroud made the Pro Bowl as a rookie. He has not been the same quarterback the past two seasons, despite winning a playoff game in each of his first three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Stroud threw five interceptions in the 2025 postseason, including four in a 28-16 loss to the Patriots in the divisional round.<\/p>\n<p>It begs the question: How committed are the Texans to their quarterback? <\/p>\n<p>They are likely to exercise the fifth-year option on Stroud\u2019s contract, which would guarantee him $25.9 million for 2026, but they appear in no hurry to complete a long-term extension. General Manager Nick Caserio has said only that Stroud is the Texans\u2019 starting quarterback for 2026, offering no insight into the future beyond this season.<\/p>\n<p>Cal McNair, in an interview with Jonathan Alexander of the Houston Chronicle, would say only that they support Stroud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/exclusive-texans-cal-hannah-mcnair-120000576.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">We\u2019re totally behind him<\/a>,\u201d McNair told Alexander. \u201cHe\u2019s totally bought into being our quarterback and all that entails.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all want to get better every year. He\u2019s doing that. We\u2019re doing that. Everyone is doing that in the organization. Everybody is trying to get better every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stroud, who threw a career-high 12 interceptions in 2024 and a career-low 19 touchdowns in 2025, has not played good enough the past two seasons for a team that had the No. 6 defense in 2024 and the No. 1 defense in 2025. McNair, though, isn\u2019t listening to the criticism of his quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will let them do that and like I said, we\u2019ll try to get better every year, top to bottom,\u201d McNair said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"C.J. Stroud made the Pro Bowl as a rookie. He has not been the same quarterback the past&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-559356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}