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Both teams apparently had this bold circled as a bold they should win and bare to win to accept a bounce-back division in 2014.
Not alone did the Houston Texans get the win, but they additionally did so in acceptable fashion, badly convalescent their affairs of authoritative the playoffs. As I mentioned on the alive blog, back 1990 teams that accept started 2-0 accept fabricated the playoffs 63 percent of the time, according to ESPN Stats & Info.
Sixty-three percent is far from a guarantee, but with winnable amateur adjoin the New York Giants, Buffalo Bills and Dallas Cowboys in their abutting three advancing up, they accept a adventitious to put themselves in a abundant position to accomplish a run at extensive the postseason.
As for the game, the Texans bedeviled in aloof about every way possible.
They ran the brawl better, won the about-face battle, bedeviled the time of control and accomplished on third bottomward abundant bigger than the Oakland Raiders.
In accurate the active bold and aegis starred—the two units that we all apperceive charge to abide to flash this division for the aggregation to accept success.
This aggregation is absolutely not perfect, and it still has abounding things to assignment on—needs added canyon blitz and added advance from the abhorrent line—but 2-0 is still a acceptable abundant acumen to get excited. Never say never, but I'll go advanced and say there's no adventitious the Texans lose 14 in a row afresh like they did in 2013 afterwards starting 2-0.
Mostly positive, analysis out the grades for anniversary position assemblage on the Texans.