I guess you missed the replay of the Manning personal foul where it clearly shows J-Jo with great coverage and knocking the ball out ..... before the Manning phantom penalty.
Agreed.
Other than J-Jo biting hard on the Garcon Slant-And-Go play, where Garcon was overthrown by Collins (preventing the easy TD opportunity), I felt we were never really in trouble in the secondary.
There was a period of time in the 2nd half, when our pass rush was not getting to Collins, that Collins began clicking and getting the ball down the field. However, it looked (to me, at least) as if the whole defense had been purposefully "toned down" for some reason...or the guys sort of coasted out there on their own???
Because after that little lull by the whole defense, we saw the series of events where Collie almost catches a TD in the back of the end zone...and right after that, IIRC, is when Mario nails Collins and the fumble happens and that's all she wrote! It was like our defense was in a fog there for awhile.
I also have to wonder if there was also some "adrenaline dump" going on with our defense in the second half. You see MMA fighters who come into the fight and they are screaming, getting amp'd up right before the fight, and then they go out there and gas out and get beaten by a much calmer opponent. Sometimes, when it's the Colts especially, or another rival, you wonder if the adrenaline high is being followed by a crash of sorts.
Because the Colts felt like the 2nd half was a new ballgame for them, and the Texans acted almost a bit disinterested in even trying to stop them. Then, as I said before, the switch was flipped and all systems were "GO!" again.
Like a few others have said, "It gives Wade Phillips something to climb their asses about this week," which is good to get them re-focused on the Dolphins next week. We'll be facing The Ultimate Decoy (Reggie Bush) again, btw.