Evidently, the light at the end of the tunnel the Steelers were seeing following last Sunday’s win over the Raiders turned out to be an oncoming train. Call it, the Houston Texans Express.
The Steelers arrived at NRG Stadium on Sunday with a two-game winning streak and the appearance of being a team on the rise after showing incremental improvement in every phase of their performance over the course of the two weeks following a loss to San Francisco in the regular season opener on Sept. 10.
But any and all of that feel-good was extinguished by a Texans team that ran the football effectively and protected their rookie quarterback behind an offensive line that had to be pieced together because of injuries, and then used their defense to do the kinds of things the Steelers expected to do
