The season opener between the Houston Texans and Indianapolis Colts on Sunday afternoon featured two teams who had one big thing in common — recent failure in the opening week of the season. Over the last decade the Colts had gone 0-9-1 in season openers, having last won one in...
The season opener between the Houston Texans and Indianapolis Colts on Sunday afternoon featured two teams who had one big thing in common — recent failure in the opening week of the season. Over the last decade the Colts had gone 0-9-1 in season openers, having last won one in 2013, while the Texans were 1-5-1 over the lheir last seven season openers. Appropriately, perhaps, the one tie the two teams had was against each other in 2022.
I lay all that out for you to say that, unless there was another twi, something had to give on Sunday at Lucas Oil Stadium in downtown Indianapolis, and what gave was the Colts' run defense, as new frontline running back Joe Mixon carried the ball 30 times for 159 yards, including a game clinching nine yard run on 3rd and 3, with the Texans needing a first down to win it.
For texans fans, there were parts of this game that were beautiful, and there were parts that were hideous. Most importantly, the scoreboard wound up beautiful — Texans 29, Colts 27. There was joy in the Texans' locker room afterwards:This is a massive win for the Texans, as the rest of the division went 0-1 to start the season, while the Texans won what, on paper, should be their hardest game of the season. Truth be told, it didn't have to be this close.
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