Two days ago, Deshaun Watson made a mistake — by fumbling the ball. Then he made another — by trying to play hero ball. And another — by throwing an errant interception.

Nov. 17 was a day of mistakes for Watson and the Houston Texans. The 24-year-old quarterback turned over the ball twice, finished with the third-worst starting passer rating of his career (63.7) and felt the pain of being trounced by the Baltimore Ravens 41-7.

Watson’s mistake-laden performance painted a clear picture of misery for the Texans. However, it’s about responding from a defeat that defines a football team, not the defeat itself.

Watson is here to respond. It’s who he is. It’s what he has done since setting Georgia state records at Gainesville High. When adversity strikes, he strikes back. When that adversity is his own wrongdoing, he learns from it.

“He really has a good memory bank so he can understand what happens. He’s not a repeat error, he doesn’t make the same mistakes twice. But he still is seeing things that are new. I think he does a great job in working hard to correct things,” said Texans coach Bill O’Brien on Tuesday. “That’s what good players do, and that’s what he is.”

After he became a full-time starter at Clemson, Watson never strung together games of back-to-back passer ratings of 104 or below (the equivalent of 63.7 in NFL). In his three seasons as a Texan, he is 4-1 coming off a rating of 75 or below.

“He does a really good job of that,” said O’Brien on Watson correcting mistakes. “He takes that to heart, whether it’s mechanics or reads, something in protection that he can fix in the next week. He works very hard to correct his own mistakes.”

Dwelling is not Watson’s forte. Revenge is. What better opportunity than the Indianapolis Colts on Thursday night?

Deshaun Watson’s Week 11 performance was not up to par with high expectations. In the Houston Texans’ 41-7 loss to the Baltimore Ravens, the shot-caller suffered his worst loss in his three-year career, his abilities as a passer on Sunday reflected that.

Watson went 18 of 29 passing for 169 yards, a fumble and an interception in the blowout loss. His 63.7 passer rating in the contest was the worst of his season, and third-worst for career starts.

By all means, Watson did not have a good game on Sunday.

However, Sunday was two days ago. Watson has been through worse than a lousy football game at the highest level. He, like the entirety of the Texans locker room, is moving on to focus on the Indianapolis Colts on “Thursday Night Football.”

“If you know anything about Deshaun Watson, like, in the whole scheme of things, relative to how he sees life and how he attacks things, that was one day that is over and we’ll clean some things up and he’ll be focused on Indianapolis,” said coach Bill O’Brien on Monday. “He’s overcome a hell of a lot more than that, so he’ll be ready to go.”

A bad game is a bad game. Nobody enjoys them. What defines a person, and subsequently, a quarterback, is how they overcome failure and disappointment. It’s part of life. Watson, throughout his 24 years, has become an icon for his ability to overcome adversity, on or off the field.

In the NFL, Watson has historically done a good job bouncing back from poor performances. He has a 4-1 record after games in which he recorded a 75 or below passer rating, with his lone loss coming in a 20-17 loss to the Tennessee Titans in Week 2 of 2018, where he recorded a 107.6 passer rating.

On Thursday, Watson will have the opportunity to blank the bad game from his mind four days after it happened. He also gets the chance to beat the rival Colts and extend his post-75 passer rating record to 5-1.