New England Patriots at Houston Texans
January 3, 2010
| Quarter | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final |
| New England Patriots | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 27 |
| Houston Texans | 7 | 6 | 0 | 21 | 34 |
| Scoring Summary | ||||
| 1st Quarter | ||||
| 3:41 | Hou | TD | Joel Dreessen 25 pass from Matt Schaub (Kris Brown Kick) | Hou 7, NE 0 |
| 14:10 | NE | TD | Fred Taylor 4 run (Stephen Gostkowski Kick) | Hou 7, NE 7 |
| 2nd Quarter | ||||
| 5:09 | NE | FG | FG Stephen Gostkowski 51 | NE 10, Hou 7 |
| 10:19 | Hou | TD | B. Pollard fumble recovery in the end zone (Kick Failed) | Hou 13, NE 10 |
| 14:14 | NE | FG | FG Stephen Gostkowski 43 | Hou 13, NE 13 |
| 3rd Quarter | ||||
| 7:17 | NE | TD | Darius Butler 91 interception return (Stephen Gostkowski Kick) | NE 20, Hou 13 |
| 4th Quarter | ||||
| 0:56 | NE | TD | Fred Taylor 11 run (Stephen Gostkowski Kick) | NE 27, Hou 13 |
| 5:19 | Hou | TD | Jacoby Jones 8 pass from Matt Schaub (Kris Brown Kick) | NE 27, Hou 20 |
| 10:17 | Hou | TD | Arian Foster 1 run (Kris Brown Kick) | Hou 27, NE 27 |
| 13:06 | Hou | TD | Arian Foster 3 run (Kris Brown Kick) | Hou 34, NE 27 |
Attendance: 71,029
Missed Field Goals: Hou - Kris Brown 56, 38| Team Statistics | ||
| New England Patriots | Houston Texans | |
| First downs | 21 | 29 |
| Rushes - yards | 19 - 74 | 27 - 144 |
| Passing | 243 | 295 |
| Punt returns | 0 - 0 | 1 - 31 |
| Kickoff returns | 6 - 154 | 5 - 141 |
| Interception returns | 1 - 91 | 1 - 15 |
| Pass attempts - Completions - Had Intercepted | 25 - 38 - 1 | 24 - 39 - 1 |
| Sacked - yards lost | 2 - 14 | 1 - 8 |
| Punts | 3 - 36.3 | 2 - 40.0 |
| Fumbles - lost | 1 - 1 | 2 - 0 |
| Penalties - yards | 4 - 55 | 5 - 35 |
| Time of possession | 28:26 | 31:34 |
| Passing | ||||||||||
| New England Patriots | Att | Cmp | Yds | Avg | TD | Int | Lg | Sack | Loss | Rating |
| Tom Brady | 26 | 17 | 186 | 7.15 | 0 | 1 | 41 | 1 | 4 | 70.4 |
| Brian Hoyer | 12 | 8 | 71 | 5.92 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 10 | 82.3 |
| Houston Texans | Att | Cmp | Yds | Avg | TD | Int | Lg | Sack | Loss | Rating |
| Matt Schaub | 39 | 24 | 303 | 7.77 | 2 | 1 | 26 | 1 | 8 | 92.1 |
| Rushing | ||||||
| New England Patriots | Att | Yds | Avg | Lg | TD | FD |
| Fred Taylor | 7 | 33 | 4.7 | 12 | 2 | 3 |
| BenJarvus Green-Ellis | 4 | 22 | 5.5 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| Brian Hoyer | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 10 | 0 | 1 |
| Sammy Morris | 7 | 9 | 1.3 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Houston Texans | Att | Yds | Avg | Lg | TD | FD |
| Arian Foster | 20 | 119 | 6.0 | 24 | 2 | 8 |
| Ryan Moats | 4 | 17 | 4.2 | 15 | 0 | 1 |
| Andre Johnson | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Matt Schaub | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Receiving | ||||||
| New England Patriots | Rec | Yds | Avg | Lg | TD | FD |
| Julian Edelman | 10 | 103 | 10.3 | 25 | 0 | 6 |
| Randy Moss | 5 | 75 | 15.0 | 41 | 0 | 4 |
| Ben Watson | 3 | 32 | 10.7 | 14 | 0 | 2 |
| Sammy Morris | 3 | 13 | 4.3 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| Sam Aiken | 2 | 9 | 4.5 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Chris Baker | 1 | 13 | 13.0 | 13 | 0 | 1 |
| Wes Welker | 1 | 12 | 12.0 | 12 | 0 | 1 |
| Houston Texans | Rec | Yds | Avg | Lg | TD | FD |
| Joel Dreessen | 6 | 81 | 13.5 | 25t | 1 | 4 |
| Andre Johnson | 6 | 65 | 10.8 | 22 | 0 | 4 |
| Jacoby Jones | 5 | 65 | 13.0 | 17 | 1 | 5 |
| Arian Foster | 3 | 26 | 8.7 | 10 | 0 | 1 |
| Kevin Walter | 2 | 30 | 15.0 | 17 | 0 | 2 |
| Vonta Leach | 1 | 26 | 26.0 | 26 | 0 | 1 |
| Andre' Davis | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 10 | 0 | 1 |
| Kickoff Returns | ||||||
| New England Patriots | Num | Yds | Avg | FC | Lg | TD |
| Darius Butler | 3 | 70 | 23.3 | 0 | 26 | 0 |
| Matt Slater | 2 | 62 | 31.0 | 0 | 35 | 0 |
| Isaiah Stanback | 1 | 22 | 22.0 | 0 | 22 | 0 |
| Houston Texans | Num | Yds | Avg | FC | Lg | TD |
| Andre' Davis | 5 | 141 | 28.2 | 0 | 36 | 0 |
| Punt Returns | ||||||
| New England Patriots | Num | Yds | Avg | FC | Lg | TD |
| Julian Edelman | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Houston Texans | Num | Yds | Avg | FC | Lg | TD |
| Jacoby Jones | 1 | 31 | 31.0 | 0 | 31 | 0 |
| Punting | ||||||||||
| New England Patriots | Punts | Yds | Avg | Lg | TB | In20 | Blk | Net | OppRet | RetYds |
| Chris Hanson | 3 | 109 | 36.3 | 40 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 26.0 | 1 | 31 |
| Houston Texans | Punts | Yds | Avg | Lg | TB | In20 | Blk | Net | OppRet | RetYds |
| Matt Turk | 2 | 80 | 40.0 | 45 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 40.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defense | ||||||||||
| New England Patriots | Tack | Ast | Tot | Sacks | Loss | Ints | Yds | Avg | Lg | TD |
| Darius Butler | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 91 | 91.0 | 91t | 1 |
| Mike Wright | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gary Guyton | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jerod Mayo | 4 | 4 | 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Brandon McGowan | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Brandon Meriweather | 6 | 4 | 10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rob Ninkovich | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Myron Pryor | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fred Taylor | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | |
| James Sanders | 9 | 2 | 11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Junior Seau | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Shawn Springs | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jonathan Wilhite | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pierre Woods | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Jarvis Green | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Stephen Gostkowski | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Eric Alexander | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Kyle Arrington | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Derrick Burgess | 8 | 1 | 9 | 1.0 | 8.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tully Banta-Cain | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Patrick Chung | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Houston Texans | Tack | Ast | Tot | Sacks | Loss | Ints | Yds | Avg | Lg | TD |
| Bernard Pollard | 5 | 1 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 15 | 15.0 | 15 | 0 |
| Nick Ferguson | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Kevin Bentley | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Antonio Smith | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Connor Barwin | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1.0 | 10.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeMeco Ryans | 6 | 1 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mario Williams | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1.0 | 4.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Brian Russell | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dunta Robinson | 6 | 1 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Zach Diles | 4 | 2 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Andre' Davis | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Brice McCain | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Brian Cushing | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tim Bulman | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| James Casey | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Amobi Okoye | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| John Busing | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Glover Quin | 6 | 1 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jacques Reeves | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jeff Zgonina | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
2009 NFL Scoreboard - Week 17
Sunday, January 3, 2010
| NY Giants | 7 |
| Minnesota | 44 |
| Boxscore | FINAL |
| Pittsburgh | 30 |
| Miami | 24 |
| Boxscore | FINAL |
| San Francisco | 28 |
| St. Louis | 6 |
| Boxscore | FINAL |
| New England | 27 |
| Houston | 34 |
| Boxscore | FINAL |
| New Orleans | 10 |
| Carolina | 23 |
| Boxscore | FINAL |
| Atlanta | 20 |
| Tampa Bay | 10 |
| Boxscore | FINAL |
| Chicago | 37 |
| Detroit | 23 |
| Boxscore | FINAL |
| Jacksonville | 17 |
| Cleveland | 23 |
| Boxscore | FINAL |
| Indianapolis | 7 |
| Buffalo | 30 |
| Boxscore | FINAL |
| Kansas City | 44 |
| Denver | 24 |
| Boxscore | FINAL |
| Baltimore | 21 |
| Oakland | 13 |
| Boxscore | FINAL |
| Tennessee | 17 |
| Seattle | 13 |
| Boxscore | FINAL |
| Washington | 20 |
| San Diego | 23 |
| Boxscore | FINAL |
| Green Bay | 33 |
| Arizona | 7 |
| Boxscore | FINAL |
| Philadelphia | 0 |
| Dallas | 24 |
| Boxscore | FINAL |
| Cincinnati | 0 |
| NY Jets | 37 |
| Boxscore | FINAL |
