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The Baltimore Ravens earned one of the most dominant wins of any team this season on Wednesday in a game in which they destroyed the Houston Texans, 31-2. And no, it’s not a typo, the Texans only scored two points. It was a disaster on Christmas Day.
The Texans’ only points of the game came in the second quarter when Kamari Lassiter tackled Derrick Henry in the end zone for a four-yard loss.
Lassiter’s play cut Baltimore’s lead to 10-2, but after that it was all the Ravens.
The Texans got into field goal range on two other possessions of the game, but both drives ended with a missed fourth down instead of a field goal, which is why Houston ended up scoring only two points.
In the first 10 years of the NFL’s existence, it was common to see a team score exactly two points (it happened 15 times in the league’s first decade), but in modern times, it almost never happens. In fact, the Ravens became just the second team in the last 30 years to limit an opponent to exactly two points in a regular-season game.
The last time it happened was in September 2013, when the Chiefs beat the Jaguars, 27-2, in the season opener for both teams. Before that, no team had been held to exactly two points since December 1993, when the Patriots beat the Bengals 7-2.
Before Wednesday’s game, there had only been seven cases in which a team had scored exactly two points since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970.
December 12, 1970: Cowboys 6-2 over Browns
October 1, 1972: 49ers 37-2 over Saints
December 17, 1972: Steelers 24-2 over Chargers
December 14, 1980: Patriots 24-2 over Bills
December 5, 1983: Lions 13-2 over Vikings
December 12, 1993: Patriots 7-2 over Bengals
September 8, 2013: Chiefs 27-2 over Jaguars
In that same span, it also happened once in the playoffs and that came in January 2012, when the Giants beat the Falcons, 24-2, in the wild card round. Speaking of the playoffs, the loss to Baltimore clinched the fourth seed for Houston, meaning the Texans will host a game on wild card weekend.
The Ravens have given up at least 23 points to 10 different opponents this year, so the fact that the Texans have only been able to score two is definitely a concerning aspect for a team that will soon be heading to the postseason. The bad news for the Texans is that if we go back to 1950, no team has ever won a playoff game in the same season in which they were limited to two points per game.
