Matt Weston:
Rarely do I think of sports as this way, but dammit I am proud of the way this defense has played. Entering the season the possibility of J.J. Watt either needing time to become himself again, or missing games, or the season entirely, was real. The worst case scenario happened when he had another back surgery, leaving the Texans without the best player in the NFL.
In this reality I wondered how far the Texans would fall off. Would they become the 10th best defense? 15th? 20th? 25th?