The Houston Texans had an eventful begin to their divisional spherical recreation towards the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs. It is powerful to have a complete breakdown on a play, a dumb penalty and a shove from a participant to educate all inside the first 13 seconds of the sport.

The Chiefs received off to a great begin Saturday with a pleasant 63-yard kickoff return from Nikko Remigio. Texans cornerback Kris Boyd ultimately tackled him, forcing a fumble that the Chiefs recovered. Then Boyd misplaced his thoughts.

Boyd threw his helmet as he was exiting the sphere, which was a 15-yard penalty on Houston. Then he gave a giant shove to Texans particular groups coordinator Frank Ross as he received to the sideline.

All of it’s a dangerous search for Boyd. That is not a tiny little shove as he was making an attempt to get by Ross to the bench.

The Texans’ protection helped the scenario from getting worse. They held the Chiefs to a discipline purpose after the kickoff return and penalty. That helped the opening sequence from being a complete catastrophe.

However it was actually not the primary 13 seconds that the Texans hoped for of their quest for upsetting the back-to-back champs.

After the sport, Boyd defined to reporters that he received caught up within the second when he thought he had compelled a turnover.

“I used to be simply too excited, did one thing {that a} should not have completed,” Boyd mentioned.

He later added that he shortly settled issues with Ross.

“I like everyone. Like I mentioned, I used to be lit, I used to be turnt, I assumed we had a great play,” he mentioned. “And I apologized to everyone. I apologized to Frank.”

Their try finally got here up quick because the Texans misplaced, 23-14.