Texans gave Cowboys and Chiefs problems in back to back weeks. That suggests two things, Lovies staff is coaching their a$$ off and players are not giving up. Kudos
That's one way to look at it. To me it appears teams, particularly the better teams, are playing down to the lowly Texans. The Chiefs played a sloppy game, turnovers and a ton of penalties. You look at the stats and it should have been a KC blowout. They just didn't seem as focused, which might explain the turnovers and penalties, because the Texans are a 1 win team. No way a double digit win team loses to them, right?
That's why these games go ahead and get played on the field instead of on paper. If you don't take a team seriously, or don't have the same focus, you'll get beat in this league even by the worst teams.
I guess it says something about the Texans that they haven't given up, but these are also guys playing to stay employed.
Texans coaches coaching their ass off? Nah, ain't buying it. Why are they going to wait until 12, 13, 14 games in to start coaching their ass off? The Texans still had just 219 total yards at 3.8 yards per play, just 80 total yards after halftime. Mills still completed just 50% of his passes, still only had 121 yards. The Texans still only had 18 1st downs and 5 of those came on KC penalties. They still gave up 502 yards at 6.6 yards per play, still gave up 189 yards on the ground, and Mahommes didn't have a single incompletion the entire 2nd half and OT. Coaching staff coaching their ass off? Not a chance. Looked like the same ol Texans to me. KC just played down to their level, turned the ball over and committed penalties.