HOUSTON -- Every week in a team meeting, Houston Texans coach Bill O'Brien emphasizes the importance of winning the turnover battle.
The message, rookie safety Justin Reid says, is "our defense has to create turnovers and our offense needs to keep the ball. The team that usually wins the turnover battle has a much higher probability of winning the game."
O'Brien said: "I don't think there's a more important stat in pro football. I really don't. When it comes to taking care of the ball and being able to take the ball away, I think if you look at our time here in the five years, I think when we've won that battle, we've won the majority of our games.