Once upon a time this season, the Houston Texans were on life support. They’d just lost to the Giants on the heels of one of Eli Manning’s best performances of the season, which isn’t saying much. At 0-3, the Texans were staring down the barrel of what could have been another lost season. But then they won. And won again. And won some more. They weren’t all pretty. They weren’t all wins the Texans should’ve won, but they were wins nonetheless.
Looking back on it now, with the Texans guaranteed a minimum of a .