The ensuing kickoff is a touchback. Texan's ball at their 25.

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Pass to Griffin gets 11.

Pass to Griffin gets 8.

L Miller for 5 and the 1st down. Ball at the Texan 49.

Pass to Griffin is dropped.

L Miller goes left side for 1 yard. 3rd and 9 coming up.

Timeout Texans.

Pass to Hop gets 10 and the 1st down.

Pass to Hop gets 9 but a flag is down......hands to the face on the Colts is declined.

Pass to Hop goes to the Colt 26, 1st down.

Pass to Hop caught at the 14 yard line, 1st down.

Pass to B Miller gets 3.

Oz's pass to B Miller in the end zone is off the mark, inc. A Colt (Butler) shaken up on the play. 2:47 left in the game.

On 3rd and 7, pass to Miller who does some fancy dancin' for the TD!

Colts 23, Texans 16

2:37 left in the game.

The ensuing kickoff is brought back to the Colt 21. Colt's ball.

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Gore for 2.

On 2nd and 8, flags come out. False start Colts, -5. 2nd and 13 coming up.

Luck is sacked at the 11 yard line by Hal! 3rd and 20 coming up.

Gore gets caught for loss of 2. Colts have to punt. Texans have a shot, here.....

Ervin brings the punt back to the Texan 47. Texan's ball with no timeouts.

I know I wasn't the only one thinking that last pass was a pick...lol

1:50 left in the game.

Screen to L Miller goes for 15.

Pass to Fido goes to the 26.

Pass to Fido over the middle goes for the TD!

Texans 23, Colts 23

49 seconds left in the game.

The ensuing kickoff is squibbed.... a lineman picks it up and takes it to the Colt 32. Colt's ball.

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Pass to Rogers goes to midfield. 38 seconds left.

Luck nearly sacked but gains 2 yards. Colts use final timeout.

Pass to Hilton gains about 10 but play is under review.....looks like the ball hit the ground.... 27 seconds left in the game. 3rd and 8 coming up.

Play is overturned.

Pass over the middle sails inc. Colts will punt.

Ervin fair catches at the Texan 15. Texan's ball with 15 seconds left.

Texans kneel it.

We're headed to OT.

Texans 23, Colts 23

Colts win the toss and will receive.

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Colts bring the kickoff back to their 26.

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Pass to Swoope gets 7.

Gore gets 7 and the 1st down at their 40 yard line.

Pass along the sideline goes inc.

Pass over the middle gets 7. 3rd and 3 coming up.

Timeout Colts.

Luck sacked by McKinney! Colts will have to punt.

Flag on the Texans for 12 men. Colts still punting.

Ervin brings the punt back to the Texan 33. Texan's ball. KJ Dillon hurt on the play.

That's a pretty weird read on the situation. The High priced QB and the star WR struggle and you peg it on the 3rd round rookie?

11:30 left in OT.

Oz hits Fido for 9.

L Miller goes right side for nice gainer. Ball in Colt territory. 1st down.

L Miller for no gain.

Deep pass to Strong goes for 36! Ball at the Colt 12.

Oz keeps and puts the ball on the right hash. Texans going for the FG and the W.

Novak's 33-yarder is good!

Final Score:

Texans 26, Colts 23

Woohoo, 4-2. Oswiler quite a 4th Q.
Excellent catch by Strong as well.

Not blaming it on Braxton just saying where is anybody?

Hopefully this will be a turning point. Weird to say of a winning team, but we all know that this team has been underachieving. That was a hell of a win.

Clowney is a beast, by the way.

Brock had to do something this game because social media was calling for his head...

Early on He was definitely looking like a Matt Schaub clone...but good thing he came through in the clutch...something Shaub wasn't likely to do...

Good win guys...

Clowney finally is just playing forward. No more worries about gaps and responsibilities. It took him 2 years but he learned the defense, and now he just goes as hard as he can in every direction he goes.

Mercilous meanwhile has turned into a fantastic pass rusher. Edge speed, counter moves, hands, all of it.

Nice win, especially against the Colts. Prime time win. Come from behind win, something this franchise doesn't have a whole lot of....

Oz gets a reprieve.

The Colts suck but man, the Texans were sucking worse in the first 3 qtrs...

As mentioned, hopefully this is a confidence builder for the whole team...

Osweiler has his problems, I'm not blind. Heck, check the last ItB tweet. He played three sucky quarters tonight, and he was trash in Minny against a top quality D.

BUT...

Let's hit the reset on a few hot takezzz here:
- Osweiler ain't cheap, but he is something like the 17th highest paid QB in the league. It's not like the team is paying him a crippling-like salary that, say, the Colts are paying Andrew Luck (per the Indy GM even).
- Yes, Schaub was terrible his last season in Houston, but pre-Haynesworth, he was a pro bowl QB who did alright for himself for many seasons. I still believe the year fat Albert sat on his foot was the team's best chance for a Super Bowl run. Schaub's preceding 16 games to that injury were pretty dang good if someone wants to look that up.

By the way, not enough said about Lamar Miller's TD reception... that was nothing short of amazing. True turning point because I think it's fourth down if he doesn't dance his way through the over-pursuit of the Colts defenders for the score.

Like everyone else beforehand, really thought the INT thrown by Osweiler right after Mercilus got the big 4th down sack was the needle in the balloon. Osweiler needs to get out of his own head maybe.

A win's a win and it was the win they needed - keeps them alone in first in the vaunted AFC South. Flipped the script - usually, it's Luck that catches fire at the end of the game and pulls it out. This time it was Ozzy.

Next up, a Monday nighter in Denver where the Broncos will have a 1-1/2 week rest and a Gary Kubiak reunion to look forward to. Denver has to work out their mess of an OL (sounds familiar, doesn't it?) and shore up the run defense but don't expect Houston to beat them passing the ball. The Texans' best chance is to sic Clowney and Mercilus on the QB all night and hope for some turnovers.

Early numbers rolling in have Denver as a 6.5 pt favorite over the Texans on MNF...

The 16 guys ahead of Osweiler in salary all had significantly more than 7 starts. So do the dozen guys behind him. Only rookies don't get paid at QB in the NFL. So starting a rookie is a giant advantage. It's an advantage that is so big it almost makes up for not having an elite QB. I'd say the two best QB situations in the NFL are having a great one that makes $25 million, or having a rookie plus $20 million worth of other players.

We are in the brutal middle. We are paying for a guy to learn the position. It's better than just punting on the position like last year, and I'm glad we made some commitment finally, it was just a stupid allocation of resources from a team building standpoint.