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EAST RUTHERFORD Christian Miller Jersey , N.J. (AP) — the New York Giants insisted the toughest thing about playing against Chicago halfback Tarik Cohen was finding him.The 5-foot-6, lightning quick Cohen must have been invisible to the Giants on Sunday.Cohen caught 12 passes for 156 yards, ran eight times for 30, returned two punts for 15, and threw a 1-yard touchdown pass as time ran out in the fourth quarter to help tie the game in a 30-27 overtime loss on Sunday.The 12 receptions, 150-plus yards and the TD throw allowed him to join Jerry Rice as the only players in NFL history with 150 yards receiving, 12 catches and a TD pass in a game.Despite the performance, Cohen wasn’t happy. Understandably so given the final score.“It’s a hurtful feeling, being that close,” the second-year pro said. “But it all falls on us. We put ourselves in that position. As a team, we dug that hole. It does hurt, still, to almost climb out of it, but not get there.”The play everyone will remember is the tying touchdown pass to Anthony Miller. It came after B.W. Webb of the Giants was called for pass interference in the end zone with :03 to play.Daniel handed off to tight end Trey Burton, who lateraled to Cohen, who had lined up in the slot on the left side.The play called for Daniel to circle out and be the primary receiver — like the Eagles’ Philly special in the Super Bowl that Burton threw — but the veteran backup quarterback who was starting for Mitchell Trubisky (shoulder) got picked and wasn’t an option.Running to his right Jordan Scarlett Jersey , Cohen looked around and found a wide-open Miller for the touchdown.“That’s a play that we’ve had for a long time,” said Cohen, who also had a 23-yard catch on the tying drive to get the ball to the New York 9 with 11 seconds to go. “I think we put it in (the playbook) in camp or the beginning of the season. It’s designed to go to the quarterback, and there’s a second read on there. They had covered Chase (Daniel), so. in practice, I actually had to throw it this week, even though Chase wasn’t covered (in practice), so it worked out.”Cohen showed a sense of humor after the game. When asked what the play was called he said:“Oompa-Loompa.”For real?“I made that up,” he quickly admitted.Bears coach Matt Nagy said he was not tempted to go for the win after the touchdown.“You can look back after all this stuff happened and say, man, ‘I wish we would have gone for two,'” said Nagy, who added the decision to go for one points was made at the start of the drive.The trick play with Cohen wasn’t the only one the Bears ran. They also used nose tackle Akiem Hicks on a fourth-down 1-yard dive for a touchdown that was reminiscent of William “The Fridge” Perry in the mid-1980s. It was called “freezer left.”“We have had that play in for weeks, and we’ve been practicing it,” Nagy said. “The rain was coming down. There was times where — I don’t know if you guys could tell — but there were some times out there on the field where the ball was slick, and so in that situation, that was the time where we felt like David Montgomery Jersey , ‘Hey, No. 1, let’s get this snap under center. Let’s give (Hicks) a chance,’ and he is hard to stop down there with getting that ball full-steam ahead.”Hicks said he was “super excited” after getting the call.“Super excited to get behind our big fellas, our other big guys, and let them get me to the end zone,” Hicks said of his first career run. “It was pretty cool, man. It was a fun play and it was exciting.” HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Texans committed mistake after mistake in their loss to Tennessee.Now they must figure out a way to fix these problems, so they don’t fall into a 0-3 hole when they meet the New York Giants on Sunday.“That’s probably the biggest thing,” coach Bill O’Brien said. “We have to eliminate those things. We have to coach it better, we’ve got to practice better. That’s probably the biggest thing that we can need to improve on, that we have too many mistakes in all three phases.”Houston had 11 penalties for 88 yards in Sunday’s 20-17 defeat against the Titans. There were false starts, a clipping penalty and Jadeveon Clowney, who was inactive with an elbow injury, incurred one from the sideline for taunting.It’s rather rare for a player not involved in the game to get a penalty. O’Brien said he didn’t have many details on what happened, but that he wasn’t surprised that the call was made.“The taunting rule is a big emphasis … that’s a good crew,” he said. “Pete Morelli does a good job. They saw it Riley Ridley Jersey , they called it.”Clowney declined comment when asked about it in the locker room on Monday.While the penalties were certainly a problem for Houston on Sunday, there were plenty of other issues that kept the team out of the win column. A big problem for Houston this season has been pass protection.While their revamped offensive line has been so good in run blocking that the team leads the NFL in yards rushing, the group hasn’t been nearly as successful in protecting Deshaun Watson.Watson has been sacked seven times this season and hit or hurried numerous other times. O’Brien takes some of the blame for the trouble in pass protection and is working to find a solution.“In the end, I have to call better plays in certain situations,” he said. “Got to do a better job of getting them in the right situation to help them execute better … I think I can help it with certain play calls moving forward.”Even with all their problems on Sunday the Texans still had a chance to send it to overtime. But Watson took so long to connect with DeAndre Hopkins on a 31-yard throw that the clock ran out before Houston had a chance to kick a field goal. O’Brien also took the blame for that gaffe on Monday, saying that he should have called a better play in that situation.Sunday’s loss came after the Texans lost to New England 27-20 in the opener.Despite all the difficulties O’Brien insists that they’re not panicking, and they remain positive that they can turn things around.“We haven’t played well but we’ve been in it in the end and we’ve got to finish these games better,” he said. “We realize we have to do a lot better. We have to play more consistently.”Veteran cornerback Johnathan Joseph said in situations such as this, things can begin to snowball, but that it’s up to him and the other experienced players to help the team get on track.“I wouldn’t say us as a team, but you hear a lot of hype coming out of the preseason and things like that and then you have one or two games where it doesn’t fall in your favor, sometimes it crumbles a little bit,” he said. “But we’re definitely standing tall in this locker room and we’re moving on to next week.