The Houston Texans enter this week's game with a 10-4 record. This is a team that started the season 0-3, won nine straight games, lost to the rival Colts, and then got back on the horse last week against the New York Jets. They've got blue-chip talent, winning with gifted skill-position players on offense and along the line of scrimmage on defense. The schemes are very strong on both sides of the ball.

Let's start on offense, a group led by second-year quarterback Deshaun Watson. The former first-round pick was an early favorite for Offensive Rookie of the Year honors last season before tearing his ACL mid-year, and so I was excited to study him this week leading up to the game. As expected, there was plenty of good with Watson (my favorite quarterback from the 2017 draft class that included Mitch Trubisky and Patrick Mahomes), but there was plenty of bad as well.

Watson has struggled with his poise, vision, and decision-making in the pocket. No quarterback in the league has been sacked more than the former Clemson star. He's also taken more sacks in the red zone than anyone in the league as well, a bad stat to have on your mantle. Are all of the sacks on him? No, of course not. He's also able to wiggle out of pressure when needed, but he puts himself in harm's way too often in the pocket by holding on to the football longer than necessary.

I know much has been written about the Eagles and their pass protection woes at times this season, but for comparison's sake, Watson has been sacked 52 times (again, most in the league), with 19 sacks coming on third down and 14 in the red zone. Carson Wentz and Nick Foles have been sacked a combined 36 times with 11 sacks on third down and just four in the red zone.

Watson has been a bit erratic at times, but at any point he's able to turn it on and make plays that the Texans envisioned when they traded up to take him in last year's draft with the 12th overall pick.