7 Open Training Camp Dates

[Keith]

I believe these tickets are available to season ticket holders tomorrow (Tuesday).

Originally Posted by Nconroe

These last two are with Atlanta

Atlanta is the focus of Hard Knocks next month, too, right?

I miss the old days when these were in the evenings and the crowds, which I thought were big at the time, were much less than they have been recently. The evening practices got cooler when the sun went down too, and the last hour was usually the best part of those workouts.

Should be interesting to see how things will change under new management this season.

[painekiller]

Originally Posted by Keith

I believe these tickets are available to season ticket holders tomorrow (Tuesday).


Atlanta is the focus of Hard Knocks next month, too, right?

I miss the old days when these were in the evenings and the crowds, which I thought were big at the time, were much less than they have been recently. The evening practices got cooler when the sun went down too, and the last hour was usually the best part of those workouts.

Should be interesting to see how things will change under new management this season.

Most of that went out the window with the last collective bargaining agreement. They are not allowed to have full practices twice a day, only one full practice and a walk thru, so the evening practices are gone forever, at least the way we remember them to be.

[Arky]

Saw this excellent breakdown by "Playoffs" in the other forum:

Originally Posted by Playoffs

2014 Houston Texans Training Camp OPEN PRACTICES presented by XFINITY

WHEN:

Saturday, July 26 8-10 a.m.
Sunday, July 27 8:30-10:30 a.m.
Wednesday, July 30 8-10 a.m.
Friday, August 1 8-10 a.m.
Saturday, August 2 8-10 a.m.
Wednesday, August 13 8-10 a.m.
Thursday, August 14 8-10 a.m.

WHERE:

Houston Methodist Training Center
Fan parking in Green Lot

*****************
Dave Zangaro ‏@DZangaro

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COMPLETE 2014 HOUSTON TEXANS TRAINING CAMP SCHEDULE

Day	Date	Morning	Afternoon

Friday	July 25	Team meetings/no practice
Sat.	July 26	8-10:30 a.m.	4:15-5:45 p.m.
Sunday	July 27	8:30-11 a.m.	4:15-5:45 p.m.
Monday	July 28	8-10:30 a.m.	4:15-5:45 p.m.
Tuesday	July 29	8-10:30 a.m.	4:15-5:45 p.m.
Weds.	July 30	8-10:30 a.m.	4:15-5:45 p.m.
Thurs.	July 31	Day Off

Day	Date	        Morning	Afternoon

Friday	August 1	8-10:30 a.m.	4:15-5:45 p.m.
Sat.	August 2	8-10:30 a.m.	4:15-5:45 p.m.
Sunday	August 3	8:30-11 a.m.     4:15-5:45 p.m.
Monday	August 4	8-10:30 a.m.	4:15-5:45 p.m.
Tuesday	August 5	8-10:30 a.m.	4:15-5:45 p.m.
Weds.	August 6	Day Off	
Thurs.	August 7	8-10:30 a.m.	4:15-5:45 p.m.
Friday	August 8	10:45-12 p.m.
Sat.	August 9	Game at Arizona Cardinals, 7:30 p.m. CST
Sunday	August 10	Day Off
Monday	August 11	8-10:30 a.m.	4:15-5:45 p.m.
Tuesday	August 12	8-10:30 a.m.	4:15-5:45 p.m.
Weds.	August 13	Practice vs. Atlanta
Thurs.	August 14	Practice vs. Atlanta
Friday	August 15	Practice vs. Atlanta
Sat.	August 16	Game vs. Atlanta Falcons, 7 p.m.
Sunday	August 17	Day Off.
Monday	August 18	8-10:30 a.m.
Tuesday	August 19	Practice vs. Denver
Weds.	August 20	Practice vs. Denver
Thurs.	August 21	Practice vs. Denver
Friday	August 22	Walk through
Sat.	August 23	Game at Denver Broncos, 8 p.m.
Sunday	August 24	Day Off
Monday	August 25	8-10:30 a.m.     4:15-5:45 p.m.
Tuesday	August 26	8-10:30 a.m.     4:15-5:45 p.m.
Weds.	August 27	Walk through
Thurs.	August 28	Game vs. San Francisco 49ers at 7 p.m.

Open Practices in green
Youth Day/tickets at Houston-area Academy Sports Outdoors

[barrett]

They need to change how they do these open practices. Last year they had 10,000 people there when 5,000 would have been over crowded. This year I have been waiting 40 minutes while the ticketmaster site "searches" for tickets.

Just charge $10 each and bring it back to a reasonable number so those who go can actually enjoy it.

[Nconroe]

Agreed, same happened to me. kept saying 3 minutes for an hour but never got a ticket. Now all sold out and timed out now. Poor result.

If anyone has an extra ticket I would like to go to one or two of the open practices.


Update, I sent an email to Texans customer service about this and they did send me a ticket for the two open practices I had requested, one ticket each.

Thank you, excellent Texans ticket customer service.

So I plan to be at practices Sat. Aug 2 and Wed Aug 13. Plenty questions to try and get my own impression on.

[painekiller]

Because of the crowds, I have stopped going to the open practices 2 years ago. I loved going to the practice and seeing the guys up close, but the last time I went the weekday was so packed I could not see anything.

Wish we were in a city that had a larger seating venue available for practice, kinda like the Cowboys in San Antonio, when they practiced in the Alamo Dome.

[nunusguy]

Yea I'm with PK, just too many people to try and endure that heat and humidity for basically a glimpse of the back of the heads of huge crowds of strangers.
On the plus side, looks like that 2-14 season didn't do much to blunt fan support and enthusiasm for the Texans.

[Warren]

Originally Posted by barrett

Just charge $10 each and bring it back to a reasonable number so those who go can actually enjoy it.

That would stop the "if they're free, I'll take three" mentality, but there's an NFL rule that says if you charge admission for practices then other teams are allowed to send scouts. The Redskins did that a few years ago.

[barrett]

I'm going to watch, but I am far less excited about this season than any I can remember. There is no shortage of storylines/questions to be answered (Bill O'Brien, Clowney, JJ being JJ, etc...). I should be excited. But I can't shake the feeling that we punted on this season the moment we made Ryan Fitzpatrick our starting QB (with no real competition). I can't decide if I'd rather sleep walk through 8-8 (or even 10-6 if we get 2013 KC Chiefs lucky), or 2-14 and the knowledge we'll have a QB a year from now.

Either way it makes me completely ambivalent about the 2014 Texans.

[chuck]

I'm excited about it. Foremost I'm excited to see evidence that BOB is not an idiot and I'm excited to see what if anything that does for the fortunes team. We've had one milquetoast coach and one idiot 0 an agreeable idiot to be sure - but an idiot. And we know the results all too well.

I'd like to see if an assertive non-idiot can bring the team any better success. I bet yes, but I don't know.

I'm excited to see the defense. I'm excited to see the front seven and I'm excited to see what the new staff does with the players who should be better, like, for example, the entire secondary.

I'm excited to see what the staff does with the OL. Could it be worse than last year? Yes, but I doubt it. The running game? The same. Quarterback, play? The same.

I'm at the point where I expect so little from the team that any sort of side story would divert me. On a similar note I was just in a place that was showing some UFC match or another. For some reason that made me thing of Michael Sam. I wonder if he'll make the Rams. I hope so.

And there are a couple more things. I have been astounded to watch the public reaction to the AJ saga. Virtually everyone is united against Andre. I don't understand how fans could possibly unite behind an owner who has delivered exactly dick to them in twelve years while turning their collective backs on the single greatest player in the team's history. Sure, being the greatest Texan ever is the smartest kid on the short bus and sure, Andre has made some bad decisions. But the fury and the antipathy unleashed on Andre has been a shock to me, even if it arises from a place like Necktown.

Second, there has been much backslapping (or whatever you might like to call it) over the ostensible value of the franchise, 13th in the world or some shit. Are you a minority owner? Me neither. So why the hell do you care? Again, a guy cons the city into building him a stadium, doubles his money in ten or twelve years, delivers dick in terms of football success and necks want to celebrate that? I don't get it, at all.

But yeah, I'm ready for the season.