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The Houston Texans do not have a very good offense. They came into their Monday night matchup with the Oakland Raiders ranked 30th in yards per game and 29th in points per game. So anytime they get a chance to score, they really need it.

On their opening drive of the night, the Texans had a touchdown taken off the board because the refs missed a call. DeAndre Hopkins caught a pass from Brock Osweiler on a quick out. He broke a tackle and turned upfield, tiptoeing up the sideline. Then the whistle blew. Only Hopkins wasn't actually out of bounds.

As you can see, there is clearly some grass between Hopkins' foot and the sideline. He's headed up the field with nobody between him and the end zone. This is a touchdown waiting to happen, and the Texans had it snatched right out of their hands. Because the play was blown dead, the Texans were not able to challenge. (They wound up ending the drive with a field goal.)

The Twittersphere, appropriately, went nuts.

There is, of course, a potential solution, but even this would not solve the issue of the play having been blown dead.

Why has this not been done already? Then we can avoid situations like this and the controversial blocked extra point touchdown from the Broncos-Saints game last week.

While it's not a makeup call, referee Tony Corrente didn't penalize Texans coach Bill O'Brien for challenging an unreviewable play -- which should have resulted in the Texans losing a timeout.