J.J. Watt Emphatically Ended Thursday Night Football By Spearing One Of The Bengals’ Offensive Linemen

Thursday night’s Texans/Bengals game was, in general, one to forget. After the opening weekend’s stunning Patriots/Chiefs game, the Thursday night slate has settled into its usual sleepiness. The Texans were shorthanded on offense, with all of their tight ends in the concussion protocol and Geno Atkins blasting rookie Deshaun Watson multiple times all night. Watson would get his revenge in scoring the game’s only touchdown of the night on an electric 49-yard run.

With the Bengals down 13-9 and needing a miracle, the final play of the game was actually pretty spectacular. The Bengals — who had the ball on their own 25 with two seconds left — tried to turn a short pass into a long touchdown against the entirety of the Texans defense.

Andy Dalton got the ball and threw it twice during the sequence, but the last player to touch the ball for the Bengals was an offensive lineman in starting center Russell Bodine. That’s never a good idea when the Texans have J.J. Watt lurking on defense.

Poor Bodine. He didn’t even know it was coming. And why should he? Centers don’t have to worry about the ball AND defenders trying to compress their spines. That’s not part of the job. One at a time, bud! Let’s look at that hit again.

My goodness. That’s a lot of muscle moving a lot of other muscle in a hurry. Let’s get another video of that for good measure.

It’s no dunk contest, but that’s about as much swagger as a defender can have in ending a football game.

Twitter had a ton of jokes, which is not surprising given they’d been waiting all night for something to happen.

With Rams vs. 49ers looming next Thursday, it’s likely we’ll slip back into another week of generally uninteresting football played by some mediocre teams. But at least this one ended with a bang.