NFL: Houston Texans 13 San Diego Chargers 21 recap and analysis

Week 11, at Reliant Stadium in Houston, home of Superbowl 52, were facing the Houston Texans and the San Diego Chargers, both hunting for a post in the playoffs. The first quarter saw a domain of both defenses thanks to a great pressure on quarterback who with a victory on the line of scrimmage by both front seven has made it impossible to create drive points. In the second quarter the game was released and was in particular the attack of Texans with Will Fueller that along a vertical Seem gained 33 yards coming near the goaline where Osweiler scored with a quarterback sneak the first touchdown of the game. Both defenses began to commit many penalties trying to keep a high pressure on quarterbacks and this has made the work easier to attack than in the first quarter. San Diego tied the game with a beautiful Action Rivers to Inman who has deceived the whole attacking a "stop and go" route that left him free to receive the TD pass to Rivers. In an attempt to get back in the lead Brock Osweiler wanted to overdo it by throwing the ball to Hopkins toward the sideline but was well covered by Hayward that was able to make a spectacular interception in the half area giving a chance to his attack to score points , opportunity well exploited because after a great run of Melvin Gordon Rivers opted for the play action pass to Tyrell Williams that gave its first lead of the game to the Chargers. In the third quarter for the first 10 minutes you feel the physical freshness of defenses to the point where Lamar Miller made his first fumble of the season following a great coup led by Lowry that gave the Chargers the ball, a ball which it was almost immediately returned to Houston at the half-way when the safety Demps has cut the direct passage to Williams giving a new posseso his team earned 3 points with a field goal by Nick Novak. Ahead by four points in the fourth quarter the Chargers have extended their lead to 11 points with an excellent drive that Philip Rivers has also improvised scramble in a couple of occasions eluding the pressure of the opponents pass rusher, the second time by passing the ball to Dontrelle Inman that in addition to receiving suffered a penalty from 15 yards for helmet to helmet hit which brought his team behind the opposing endzone where Rivers launched his third TD pass of the day, this time at tight end Hunter Henry on a vertical Seem. With 4:25 left on Houston stopwatch using the no huddle offense has managed to score three points with his second field goal of Novak, after the Texans have tried the onside kick that was covered by the Texans but they failed in the hail mary passage to tie the game.

FINAL SCORE: Texans 13, Chargers 21

MVP: Philip Rivers