{"id":25178,"date":"2012-09-23T11:30:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T16:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=25178"},"modified":"2012-09-23T10:37:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T15:37:16","slug":"week-3-nfl-picks-houston-texans-vs-denver-broncos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/week-3-nfl-picks-houston-texans-vs-denver-broncos-25178\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 3 NFL Picks: Houston Texans vs. Denver Broncos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston Texans at Denver Broncos
\nSunday, 9\/23\/12, 4:25 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Houston -1
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Houston -1.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 47.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 44
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Texans<\/a>
The Houston Texans have been one of the more impressive NFL teams in the early going<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Houston has won and covered its first two games of the season, as it hits the road for a second consecutive week.\u00a0 The Texans lead the NFL in allowing just 196 yards per game, but they\u2019ve faced two of the worst offenses in all of football.\u00a0 \u201cThese two are behind us, and it\u2019s time to start looking forward,\u201d stated Texans head coach Gary Kubiak.\u00a0 The Texans may take to the air a bit in this contest, considering their opponent this week is allowing just 2.6 yards per carry on the ground.\u00a0 Houston is 5-2 ATS as a road favorite over the last two-plus campaigns, which is important to note when looking at the pro football odds page.<\/p>\n

The Texans held the ball for 43:17 in last week\u2019s 27-7 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars as 6.5-point road favorites, which should have the defense feeling fresh to deal with the altitude of the Mile High City.\u00a0 Houston is certainly glad to have starting quarterback Matt Schaub back on the field, considering his passer rating is 94.3, while he hasn\u2019t thrown an interception this year.<\/p>\n

Denver will be looking to bounce back from a 27-21 loss to the Atlanta Falcons as three-point road underdogs on ESPN\u2019s Monday Night Football.\u00a0 Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning turned the ball over numerous times in that contest, but will be facing a familiar foe in this matchup.\u00a0 The former Indianapolis Colts star has won 16 of 18 games against the Texans in his career.\u00a0 Denver is 0-2 ATS after being featured on the primetime event, while splitting its last 10 games as a home underdog against the Las Vegas number.<\/p>\n

The Broncos are definitely happy with the production they\u2019ve received from running back Willis McGahee, as he\u2019s gained 100 or more yards on the ground in the last two seasons, which ties him for the league-lead in that category.\u00a0 Denver has averaged an NFL-best 135.8 rushing yards per game since 1995, which includes a franchise-best 2,362 yards in 2011.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely fade the Texans in this spot due to their 1-4 ATS mark versus AFC West division opponents.<\/p>\n

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

Houston Texans at Denver Broncos Sunday, 9\/23\/12, 4:25 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Houston -1 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Houston -1.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 47.5 Current Total:\u00a0 44 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Houston has won and covered its first two games of the season, as it hits the road for a second consecutive week.\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[2584,570,1120,452,282],"class_list":["post-25178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-afc-west","tag-denver-broncos","tag-houston-texans","tag-matt-schaub","tag-peyton-manning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25178","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\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25180,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25178\/revisions\/25180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}