What this is
A personal Houston Texans HQ built for a father and son to follow the team together — watch smarter, argue better, and see the path to a win as it unfolds. It is not an official NFL or Texans product.

What it gives you (every tab)

• Game — scoreboard (upcoming / live / final), dual-path Dominos, HOU or opponent tendency & next-play lean by possession, injuries, opponent preview.
• Plays — live public play-by-play when a game is on; otherwise guidance to Schedule. Always includes a Back control to return to game insights or the full schedule.
• Schedule — this NFL week by default (every game, same row info: time, TV, line). Toggle Texans season for the full Houston slate. Star games to watch; tap for line, total, keys, then Game Center or Plays.
• Camp — training-camp updates from public team / ESPN feeds with offline cache.
• Stats — team snapshot and player cards with expandable notes.
• Roster — searchable camp/preseason roster (fuzzy search for misspellings). Tap a player for notes plus trusted external links only (ESPN, Pro Football Reference, NFL.com) — no hype mills.
• News / Videos — public headlines and ranked video picks with refresh.
• Notes — private, on-device only, with Export / Import backup (notes + accuracy log + Dominos memory).
• About — this guide.

Dominos to Win — the idea
Most apps show a score or a generic “keys to the game.” Dominos is different. It treats a win as a path of conditions that must hold for Houston — protection, early downs, edge pressure, explosives prevented, red-zone finish, special teams, named player hinges, and more. Before kickoff you see the matchup must-achieve set. During the game the list rewrites as plays happen: what still matters, what already fell Houston’s way, and what broke against them. After the whistle you get a full unit breakdown. Over the season the app remembers which conditions actually decided games and quietly improves priority the next time.

Possession mirror (both sides of the ball)
When Houston has the ball, you get Texans tendency, Dominos to Win, and Next Play Lean.
When the opponent has the ball, the same rigor flips: opponent tendency, opponent next-play lean, and Dominos focused on Houston’s defense (no explosive, early downs, 3rd-down stops). Scheme-similarity priors (e.g. spread-shotgun vs zone families) bias the opponent lean using public-style fingerprints — live plays still rewrite the path. That is the complete-game analysis most fan apps never show.

Three modes (one card)

• Before kickoff — pill reads Before kickoff. Matchup-specific path for the next opponent. Preseason paths are phase-aware: starters window first, then depth evaluation.
• Live — when a Texans game is in progress and the network feed is available, the card shows the highest-leverage remaining dominos plus a one-line insight. Status colors update from real play text.
• Final path — after the game, Dominos expands into a hierarchy grouped by unit (OFF / DEF / ST / PLY and related categories) so you can review the whole path, not only the live shortlist.

How to read the colors (20-second glance)

• 🟡 Live — still required; watch this now
• 🟢 Fallen — achieved in Houston’s favor
• 🔴 Broken — went against Houston; the path narrowed

Each row also shows a category chip (OFF, DEF, ST, PLY, etc.) and, in preseason, a phase tag (starters or depth). The line under the list is the single highest-leverage insight right now — glance, absorb, look back at the TV.

What the path covers

• Offense — clean pocket, OL fits, early-down success, third downs, red-zone finish, ball security, depth assignment football
• Defense — edge pressure, stops on schedule, explosives prevented, takeaways, third-down defense
• Special teams — coverage, tackle consistency, hidden yardage, no free points the other way
• Players — named hinges when one player is a real lever (Stroud, Higgins, Anderson / Clowney, Mills in the depth window, and others as matchups dictate)
• Momentum & context — answering an explosive, protecting a late lead, weather when it actually matters

Live feed (how it stays current)
During the game you selected, the app pulls public ESPN play data for that one event only (same family of endpoints used for News). Scores, clock, situation, and recent play text feed the Dominos engine so fallen / broken status is driven by what happened on the field — not by a static checklist. Polling runs in the background while you stay in the app. If the network is unavailable, the pre-game path still works offline; live rewriting resumes when the feed is reachable again.

Post-game hierarchy
When the game is final, Dominos switches to Final path: every tracked condition grouped under offense, defense, special teams, and player categories with its final status. That is the review mode — built for after the broadcast, when you have time to study what held and what broke.

Scouting memory (every team you watch)
Texans official Next Play accuracy stays Houston-only. Separately, every game you actually watch deposits a scouting file for both teams: result, explosives, turnovers, and which Dominos fell or broke. By January, the clubs you’ve been following have a real memory — and when Houston meets them, opponent preview and Dominos priority use that file. Teams you never opened stay on generic defaults. That is your scouting, not a league-wide model.

Season memory (gets smarter over time)
After each final, this device stores which dominos fell and which broke. Future games slightly raise the priority of conditions that kept deciding wins and ease ones that kept failing. No account and no cloud upload — memory stays on this device only. Preseason paths are useful for evaluation; regular season and postseason carry the heavier weight for long-term calibration.

What to watch for on the card

• A 3rd-and-long or red-zone domino at the top — highest leverage right now
• A broken protection or explosive-play domino — the path just got harder
• Several fallen early-down / protection items while leading — controlled football is working
• Defense on the field with force a stop live — the offense path depends on this series
• Preseason: starters tags early, then depth tags after the evaluation window shifts

Dominos vs Next Play Lean
Next Play Lean answers: “What might they call on this snap?”
Dominos answers: “What still has to be true for Houston to win the game?”
They sit next to each other on purpose. One is the next call; the other is the win path.

Next Play Lean — rules

• It is a lean, not a guarantee — built for discussion.
• Accuracy is tracked when the next play is known.
• Preseason is a separate lab book — you can test thoroughly (Panthers, etc.) without moving official numbers or Dominos weights.
• Only regular-season and postseason results feed the official accuracy log and Dominos season memory.
• Game dock — Pop out a small window so Prime / NFL+ can stay on the laptop while HQ keeps polling. Switching tabs no longer has to kill the live view.

Honest limits

• Live feed needs network. Opening the app as a raw file:// page can block ESPN requests (browser security). Hosted or served over http/https is best on game day. Pre-game Dominos always work offline.
• Play-text resolution is strong for sacks, explosives, turnovers, first downs, and scores; ultra-fine alignment labels (exact coverage shell on every snap) are not claimed on the live card.
• Roster prefers the live ESPN team feed when online, then last offline cache, then the baked-in list. Guards: min-size (≥80 camp), required-name check (Stroud, Bond, Rutledge, …), cache schema versioning, and a boot self-test that surfaces integrity failures instead of silent gaps.
• News and videos depend on public feeds and may lag or be empty offline.

Privacy
Password-protected. Notes, Next Play accuracy, and Dominos season memory stay on this device only. Nothing is uploaded to a server.

Built for personal use. Version in the header. Dominos is the feature that turns watching into understanding — so a father and son can see the same path and argue about the next one.