Indianapolis Colts at Houston Texans
In 2009, the Texans lost two agonizingly close games to the Colts that were more about the team’s red zone performance than anything else. Houston scored one touchdown on nine red zone plays in the 20-17 loss in Week 9, and three touchdowns on 16 red zone plays in the Week 12 35-27 follow-up. If you’re trading touchdowns for field goals against the Colts, you’re going to lose, no matter who you are. The Colts do not practice formation diversity on offense – they run more three-wide single back sets than any other team every year, and it isn’t even close. That’s a problem for the Texans, who had the fifth-worst Defensive DVOA in 2009 against 3/1 offenses (18.0%). No defense allowed more yards per play against such formations than Houston’s 6.1.
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