The Houston Texans had an eventful begin to their divisional spherical sport in opposition to 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 acquired off to a very good begin Saturday with a pleasant 63-yard kickoff return from Nikko Remigio. Texans cornerback Kris Boyd finally 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 acquired to the sideline.

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

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

Nevertheless it was definitely 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 acquired 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 finished,” Boyd stated.

He later added that he shortly settled issues with Ross.

“I like all people. Like I stated, I used to be lit, I used to be turnt, I believed we had a very good play,” he stated. “And I apologized to all people. I apologized to Frank.”

Their try in the end got here up brief because the Texans misplaced, 23-14.