Texans rookie coordinator Frank Bush’s rushing defense began the season in the deepest of funks. Trampled by the Jets, befuddled by the Titans and punctured by the Jaguars, Houston found itself dead last in the NFL in a statistical category that tends to be seen as a measure of a team’s toughness, its elemental grit.
There’s nothing fancy, pretty or scientific about stuffing a running play. It’s a brute-force, stand-your-ground, may-the-best-man-win kind of thing, and the Texans were losing almost every battle — comically so on occasion. In those first three games, they allowed scoring sprints of 91, 61, 57 and 38 yards among eight rushing touchdowns total. Fifteen times they got burned for gains of 10 or more yards.
Something had to give. Or better, the Texans simply had to stop giving. And they have, mounting a remarkable, almost jaw-dropping reversal that has been all about saving face. Climbing a fourth of the way up the league standings over the last three Sundays — 24th doesn’t look nearly so bad when you’re coming from 32nd — they held the Raiders, Cardinals and Bengals to less than 50 yards rushing apiece. To put that in perspective, consider this: Texans defenses had done it just four times previously in franchise history
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