Coming off a 4-12 season, featuring a roster that wasn’t exactly teeming with talent, popular opinion was that the 2021 Houston Texans would, in a word, stink. Hence, they were relegated to a single primetime game on Thursday Night Football this season. But then they looked like a quality football concern in their season opener against the Jaguars. Houston followed that up by looking even better in the first half on the road against the Browns.
But then Tyrod Taylor got hurt, and everything that happened up to that point seemed to wash away in an instant.