In fact, the Texans should have gone 12-4 in 2008 ( not 8-8 ) but they let those two games slip away against the Colts, the loss at Jacksonville in Overtime should have been a win, and the loss against the Vikings in Minnesota was also winnable.

There were at least four winnable games the Texans didn't grasp last season, and those one-score losses still eat away at my mind all off-season long.

As Speedy once said, you're always one or two plays away from winning and losing. The difference between a 12-4 playoff team and an 8-8 team sitting at home during the playoffs isn't that much. It's four to eight plays total.