Houston Texans Defeat the Indianapolis Colts With Weeden

The stat that impressed me most is that the Colts only scored on 2 of their 11 drives and were held to just 190 yards total.

Houston finally ended The Streak in Indianapolis and now can focus on more important things like getting healthy – and winning the AFC South.

As with the rest of the offense, the Colts wide receivers were largely impacted by the fact that Matt Hasselbeck didn’t look like he was even 50 percent for most of the game, but there is still no excuse for how anonymous the receivers felt. Houston trailed 10-0 at the time. The depth chart has shrunk so much that Pagano was even asked about using punter Pat McAfee as a quarterback at practice this week.

Next Sunday, the Texans will be at home to face the Tennessee Titans, but they don’t know who the quarterback will be. After being knocked out of each of the last three games with back, shoulder, neck and rib injuries, the three-time Pro Bowler said he hurt his jaw in Sunday’s 16-10 loss to Houston – or as Pagano described it, Hasselbeck is beat up from the feet up. After the game, the Yates injury was preliminarily diagnosed as a torn ACL.

Luck last played November 8 when he suffered a lacerated kidney against the Denver Broncos. Weeden played well enough to get the win for the Texans on Sunday after Yates left. It was a tough day.

Luck has played in seven games this year and has completed 162 of 293 passes (55.3%) for 1,881 yards (6.42 yards per attempt) and 15 touchdowns against 12 interceptions for a passer rating of 74.9, also adding 196 yards rushing while averaging 5.9 yards per carry.

A Texans tie and a loss by Indianapolis.

In what was just Weeden’s first win all season (was winless with the Cowboys as a starter), his performance of going 11 of 18 for 1 touchdown was all Houston needed to get the win Sunday thanks to an incredible defensive performance.

After Ben Roethlisberger failed to throw a touchdown in the first half, things turned around in the second half as the Steelers quarterback and Antonio Brown connected time and again, with Brown finishing yet another game with video game like statistics.

Colts quarterback Matt Hasselbeck took another brutal beating.

It was a glorious day, another day in which Texans head coach Bill O’Brien had to make do with what he had and squeeze everything he could out of his defense to come away with an historic team win. In the past few weeks, that’s been Chris Polk, but yesterday, Blue was the hot hand, ending up with 107 yards on 20 carries and recovering from an early fumble that set the Colts up with room service in Texans territory. Indianapolis can finish no better than 8-8.