The Houston Texans entered Foxboro with one of the best defenses we’ve seen in a long time. All the team needed to win from the quarterback position was mediocrity. They didn’t need something special, dynamic play wasn’t required — just a below-average QB performance would have punched their ticket to the AFC Championship game, where we’d then be talking about whether or not the smothering Texans’ defense was good enough to hoist the Lombardi Trophy.
Instead they got C.J. Stroud. More aptly, a recently-discovered, horrific version of their once-promising quarterback, who wasn’t just bad against the Patriots, but the nexus of their demise. Two years of regression reached rock bottom
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