Double whammy indeed. I get the rule, I'm just not sure it has to be black and white like this. Kinda like the defensive pass interference penalty; if the ball was unlikely to be catchable, then PI is meant to be overlooked. If a bobbled fair catch bounces so far away it is not going to be caught by the returner before hitting the ground, then I dunno, doesn't seem to make much sense to penalize a defender for catching it. I mean, if it hits the returner's helmet and shoots off 15 yards towards a defender, he can't catch it without being flagged? You can never complain too much if a ref calls it by the book, but it's one of those calls where the Texans wouldn't have really had any ground to complain either if it wasn't called ("catch it better next time", etc).
Ah ok, that makes more sense then. I just wonder if it would have been ruled a fumble or an incompletion if it happened at the 20 instead of inside the end zone. I tend to think incompletion. In any case, if he had possession then crossed the end zone line, I'm not sure he did it before his knee went down? Ultimately though I guess the DB's gotta not let it get that far anyway.