There aren’t many more anticlimactic ways to start a season than settling for a tie. You prepare all offseason to go out and win — to try for anything else is a disservice to everyone involved. But for first-year Texans head coach Lovie Smith, he seemed more than happy to take that tie into Week 2.
The Texans saw a 17-point lead disappear in the second half of Sunday’s game against the Colts. And it wasn’t pretty. After jumping to that 17-point lead, the Texans completely stalled on offense with four punts and a fumble in the second half. But when the Colts’ Rodrigo Blankenship missed a field goal in overtime, the Texans still had a chance to steal a win.
