The Texans scored a touchdown with 2:04 remaining in the fourth quarter on Monday night, bringing the score to 27-19 and giving them a chance to send the game into overtime — if they could get the ball back. But they never did, thanks in large part to burning the two-minute warning on the ensuing kickoff.

By this point, every coach in the NFL should know that in such a situation, the smart play is to kick the ball out of bounds, which doesn’t take any time off the clock and will result in the clock stopping for the two-minute warning after the first play of the drive. But that’s not what the Texans did: Houston kicked off deep, Seattle burned six seconds off the clock on the return, and the two-minute warning was gone.

So why didn’t Texans coach DeMeco Ryans tell kicker Ka’imi Fairbairn

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