In Seattle, the defense forced four takeaways, scoring directly off one of them on Will Anderson Jr.'s strip sack and fumble recovery in the end zone. Houston also blocked a field goal. If you have all those things happen, you feel like you should win the game.
But they didn't. And now they have a confident San Francisco team coming into NRG Stadium.
I've lived through all the comeback seasons and the common thread is that something clicked. Everything started working better and more efficiently.
The secret sauce is different every time.
The personnel is there to make this happen. So is the coaching. But it has to happen soon. The division is way harder than most originally thought. The good news is you have seven home games out of your last 11. You have a defense that will keep you in every game and enough talent on offense to improve and make things a lot more difficult on solid teams.
It's going to be a super short week of prep and the game plan will have to be constructed without assurances that your top two receivers will be available.
The NFL season stops for no one and by the time the Texans sleep off the Seattle game, they'll have four days to get ready for the 49ers.