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Originally Posted by nunusguy
I don't think it's as much of an accomplishment for the Texans to come back
in games as some people do. The dirty little secret about the Texans is they've got inferior personnel which puts them in the hole early in a game, at which point the other team goes to conservative mode (on both defense and offense) and protects their lead rather than trying to build on it. Sure the Texans usually close the gap, sometimes to a razor thin margin, but much more often than not they end up losing.
Re winning/losing culture, what we saw Sunday in Nashville was a team that just lacked effort/focus, and that was absent probably because there's no longer anything to play for this season - no motivation.
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The NFL is not the NBA where everybody makes a run. You don't get a free comeback because your opponent goes conservative. If you are falling behind because you are bad, then you are likely to fall further behind, since the game is far easier to play with a lead.
If the Texans were simply coming back because other teams let up, then you would see it all over the league. Instead it is unique and the Texans have done this (come back from 14 and lose) more than twice as much as any team in NFL history. And you can throw in 2 other successful comebacks. That means that SIX TIMES they came out flat and fell behind 2+ touchdowns, only to come back. That is not a team that has inferior talent. That is a poorly coached team.
The facts just don't match up with what you are telling us.