The more I think about this, the Texans are a very dirty team (you can see it in their play) and I think Patrick and Reid knew it and played conservative as a result to just keep him healthy. Check out these NFL penalty stats...you can see the Texans play dirty based on how they are penalized defensively and they should be ashamed. The two roughing the passer calls were correct too...
BTW, the Chiefs are just on the average in terms of penalty differential - no special treatment at all (compared to the Bills and Vikings who do get special treatment).
Also, the Chiefs offense was the second highest penalized offense in the league...yeah special treatment for Patrick - not!
https://www.footballdb.com/statistic...l.html?yr=2024