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The Texans came back from a 13-0 deficit on the road by scoring 17 consecutive points, only to fall to Peyton Manning and the Indianpolis Colts by a 20-17 final.

Posted by ESPN.com's Paul Kuharsky INDIANAPOLIS -- One giant difference between the Colts and Texans Sunday was penalties.

Looking to rebound from last week's blowout loss, the Jaguars may lean heavily on Maurice Jones-Drew. The Texans may not go three-wide: It's easy to presume that Houston will go three-wide in Indianapolis to try to get an extra receiver on the field to make up for the loss of Owen Daniels and to go after nickelback Tim Jennings .

Receiver David Anderson said the Texans' new starting tight end, Joel Dreessen, is so dedicated he eats pages out of the playbook to make sure he's prepared for a game.

The first time Texans running back Steve Slaton touched the ball Sunday, on a dump pass from Matt Schaub, he cradled it in both hands well before he collided with Buffalo cornerback Terrence McGee.

Spooky. How perfect, or perfectly awful, is it that the Texans should have been made to visit this most haunted of houses on Halloween weekend.

The Houston Texans have never had a winning season in their eight-year existence.

Hope we have a great Halloween weekend with a win and all your favorite candy. If you are handing out candy, make sure it is the good stuff, and that you have enough to give out multiple pieces.

Posted by ESPN.com's Paul Kuharsky The suggestion: Barrett in Austin suggested Steve Slaton 's touchdown run in Houston's win over San Francisco.

Later on this evening, I will post an interesting look at the how the Texans fared on first downs on the offensive side of the ball.

It seems like every week there has been some underlying storyline to the Houston Texans upcoming game.A Last week was a battle between two teams with tendency to take things down to the last second.

I dearly love it when I learn something about the team that I did not already know and it makes me go hmmmm .

The Texans have matched the best six-game start in franchise history. 2002 1-5 Through 6 games 4-12 Finished season 2003 2-4 Through 6 games 5-11 Finished season 2004 3-3 Through 6 games 7-9 Finished season 2005 0-6 Through 6 games 2-14 Finished season 2006 2-4 Through 6 games 6-10 Finished season 2007 3-3 Through 6 games 8-8 Finished season 2008 ...

Matt Schaub has thrown for at least 300 yards in four of his last five games and leads the NFL with 14 touchdown passes.

Matt Schaub has impressed Texans coach Gary Kubiak with the way he's throwing the ball and handling the team.

Veteran Chris White and rookie Antoine Caldwell will rotate at right guard on Sunday when the Texans play the Cincinnati Bengals at Paul Brown Stadium.

Posted by ESPN.com's Paul Kuharsky In a breakdown of runs up the middle by ESPN Stats & Information, Chris Johnson ranks third , Maurice Jones-Drew ranks seventh , Donald Brown ranks 24th .

With Cedric Benson leading the NFL in rushing and Cincinnati on a 4-0 roll, he's starting to look like the bargain of the young century.

Posted by ESPN.com's Paul Kuharsky With Mike Brisiel out for the season with a foot injury, the Texans will turn to rookie Antoine Caldwell , Chris White or both starting Sunday at Cincinnati.

They call it a game of inches. And nowhere was that more apparent than yesterday's latest loss by the Texans.