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Texans suffer shameful loss to Giants in home opener

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J.J. Watt awoke with a mighty roar Sunday, sacking Eli Manning three times. But Watt's heroics went for naught as the Texans' inexplicably discombobulated offense mostly snoozed on, ensuring that the previously winless Giants would leave town with a 27-22 victory over the still-winless Texans.

Their prospects for playing on into January now? In a word, poor.