{"id":19301,"date":"2011-11-11T02:02:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T07:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=19301"},"modified":"2011-11-11T02:03:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T07:03:20","slug":"week-10-nfl-betting-preview-tampa-bay-bucs-host-houston-texans-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/week-10-nfl-betting-preview-tampa-bay-bucs-host-houston-texans-on-sunday-19301\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 10 NFL Betting Preview: Tampa Bay Bucs host Houston Texans on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston Texans at Tampa Bay Buccaneers
\nSunday, 11\/13\/11, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Houston -2.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Houston -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 45.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 45.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Texans
Texans RB Arian Foster leads the NFL's second-best rushing attack into Tampa Bay on Sunday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Houston Texans came into the season as the favorites to win the AFC South because of their strong passing game.\u00a0 But the Texans (6-3) have used the NFL\u2019s second-best ground game to win three straight games, and they will try to make it four in a row when they visit the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (4-4) on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Only the Philadelphia Eagles rush for more yards per game than Houston does behind running backs Arian Foster and Ben Tate.\u00a0 The duo averages more than 142 yards per game between them, and each player is on pace to top 1,100 yards.<\/p>\n

The Texans (-3, O\/U 45.5) are 6-0 this season when they rush 30 times or more in a game and 29-3 under head coach Gary Kubiak all-time in that scenario.\u00a0 Foster (124) and Tate (115) both topped the century mark in a 30-12 rout of Cleveland last Sunday as the team set a franchise record with 261 rushing yards total.<\/p>\n

One of the main reasons Houston has chosen to run the ball more lately is that All-Pro wide receiver Andre Johnson is suffering from a hamstring injury that has caused him to miss the last five games.\u00a0 Johnson has been practicing this week though and could return against the Buccaneers.\u00a0 In the last four games without Johnson, Texans quarterback Matt Schaub has averaged just 215 passing yards with four touchdowns.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay knows what it\u2019s like to miss a key cog in its offense, as the team\u2019s top rusher LeGarrette Blount missed two games with a sprained knee before returning last week.\u00a0 Blount carried the ball 13 times for 72 yards in a 27-16 loss at New Orleans after sitting for three weeks, including the bye.<\/p>\n

The Bucs have dropped two games in a row and three of four following a 3-1 start.\u00a0 They have won their last three true home games, with a road trip to London to face Chicago also considered one of their \u201chome\u201d games.\u00a0 Tampa lost to the Bears 24-18 and looked out of sorts against the Saints following the bye in Week 8.\u00a0 New Orleans jumped out to a 17-3 halftime lead and was up 24-6 heading into the fourth quarter of a game that was never really close.<\/p>\n

Houston has split two all-time meetings with the Buccaneers, with the last one taking place in 2007 and resulting in a 28-14 victory.\u00a0 The Texans are 2-0-1 against the spread during their winning streak while Tampa Bay is 1-4 ATS in its past five overall and 7-19 ATS in its last 26 at home.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the NFL handicappers<\/a> at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Houston Texans at Tampa Bay Buccaneers Sunday, 11\/13\/11, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Houston -2.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Houston -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 45.5 Current Total:\u00a0 45.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker The Houston Texans came into the season as the favorites to win the AFC South because of their strong passing game.\u00a0 But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":17251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[1120,1772,1930,1922,2757,458,3679],"class_list":["post-19301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-houston-texans","tag-nfl-betting","tag-nfl-odds","tag-nfl-picks","tag-pro-football","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-week-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19304,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19301\/revisions\/19304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}