🏈 The Texans beat the Dallas Cowboys 34-10, improving to 7-4 for the season.
Running back Joe Mixon rushed for back-to-back touchdowns in Houston’s opening drives and capped the night with a third in the 4th quarter. (ESPN)
🚧 Kim Son, an anchor restaurant in Houston’s original Chinatown that opened in 1982, is the latest business to close its doors ahead of the Texas Department of Transportation’s $10 billion Interstate 45 expansion. (Houston Chronicle)
🧠 Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wants Texas to be a leader in researching and battling dementia. (Houston Public Media)
Saquon wore down Commanders after sluggish start. Jake Elliott missed his first two field-goal attempts — both wide left — and later missed an extra-point try that kept it a 12-10 score after the Eagles took the lead for the first time early in the fourth quarter. That’s seven points the Eagles left on the field. It felt like they had dominated the game after a Commanders’ TD drive, but the outcome was in doubt until late. Then Saquon Barkley delivered the second of three second-half haymakers, a 23-yard TD, with just under five minutes left to finally give Philadelphia a two-score edge. Twenty seconds later — after a Jayden Daniels pick — Barkley broke off a 39-yard TD to give him 146 yards and two scores. The NFL’s leader in rushing yards and scrimmage yards blew past the 1,000-yard mark for the season in the first half and demolished Washington in the final few minutes. Barkley’s 43-yard catch-and-run also set up Jalen Hurts’ TD sneak earlier in the fourth quarter. It was yet another slow start for Philadelphia’s offense — with some special teams gaffes mixed in — but the Eagles eventually got it going, with big thanks to Barkley. What a terrific addition he’s been to this Philly attack.
