The Houston Texans had an eventful start to their divisional round game against the Kansas City Chiefs. It's tough to have a total breakdown on a play, a dumb penalty and a shove from a player to coach all within the first 13 seconds of the game.
The Chiefs got off to a good start with a nice 63-yard kickoff return from Nikko Remigio. Texans cornerback Kris Boyd eventually tackled him, forcing a fumble the Chiefs recovered. Then Boyd lost his mind.
Big return to open the game. Ball is loose but Chiefs recover.
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Boyd threw his helmet as he was exiting the field, which was a 15-yard penalty on Houston. Then he gave a big shove to Texans special teams coordinator Frank Ross as he got to the sideline.
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All of it is a bad look for Boyd. That's not a tiny little shove as he was trying to get by Ross to the bench.
The Texans defense helped the situation from getting even worse. They held the Chiefs to a field goal after the kickoff return and penalty. That helped the opening sequence from being a total disaster.
But it was certainly not the first 13 seconds that the Texans hoped for in their hope of upsetting the back-to-back champs.
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