Quiet when there are fewer things to complain about usually. Site traffic is always higher midseason when the wheel start falling off.
This is at least the third game this year where the Texans faced a head coach who made more questionable game decisions than Bill O'Brien, which is not easy to do. Vance Joseph botched the final minutes of the first half, almost gifting a field goal to the Texans. Then to close the game, after Case Keenum miraculously converts a 4th down, Joseph turtles to set up a failed 51-yd field goal attempt when there was opportunity to move closer.
Lip readers after contend O'Brien said "Good job Vance, you dumbf**k."
Combined with the Colts going for it in OT, and the Cowboys not going for it... has the head coach who punted down 14 with 4 minutes to play in New England outsmarted this many other head coaches? Apparently so.
Demaryius Thomas was the other interesting footnote to this game. And no, I'm not referring to how O'Brien (wisely) involved him very early in the game. I was instead amazed to see Thomas *sprinting* off the field the moment after the missed field goal. I mean, his team just won, and all his former teammates and coaches are literally steps away on the other sideline.
Thomas said after that he was overcome with emotion, but on more than one occasion he also said postgame that the Texans were not ones to point fingers, which seems like a less-than-veiled comment about his former team. Hmm...?
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