Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson dropped an interesting note in his postgame presser Sunday afternoon.
After the Indianapolis Colts vanquished the Texans 27-20 at Lucas Oil Stadium, Watson apparently had a conversion with Colts defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus.
What was the subject of their discussion? Just how the Colts defense was able to curtail the Texans’ offense, limiting them to exactly 20 points in both of their contests this season, two weeks apart.
“We play a team that we just played two weeks ago so we have to figure out what they’re doing differently,” Watson said. “They did a lot of different things differently. I talked to their DC afterwards and told him about it and he was like, ‘Yeah, that’s what we had to do. We had to switch up some different things.’
“Because that defense is a bend but don’t break defense. They play a lot of zone coverages and a lot of different things that they do — you know exactly what they’re going to do but today they wanted to try to mix it around and do some different things.”
Watson completed 33 passes on 41 attempts for 373 yards and two touchdowns while taking five sacks. The 120.8 passer rating may have been good enough to win the game if not for receiver Keke Coutee fumbling at the 2-yard line en route to scoring the game-tying touchdown.
“We just have to get into a rhythm — that’s the biggest thing,” Watson said. “Sometimes we start fast, sometimes we don’t.”
The Texans will have a chance to find an early rhythm as they take on the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 16 for a Sunday afternoon encounter at 12:00 p.m. CT at NRG Stadium. Whether or not Watson talks to Bengals defensive coordinator Lou Anarumo after the game remains to be seen.
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