If you had said back in August that Brock Osweiler would play an efficient, mistake-free game in a playoff win over a 12-4 Oakland Raiders team, we’d have thought the Houston Texans’ $72 million free-agent deal wasn’t so bad.
Of course, the route Osweiler took to his promising performance on Saturday was far from smooth. He struggled this regular season, was ridiculed and got benched late in the season. People started wondering if he had replaced Albert Haynesworth as the most famous free-agent flop in NFL history.
Give Osweiler a respite, at least for a week.