{"id":31096,"date":"2013-11-03T14:30:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T19:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31096"},"modified":"2013-11-03T12:27:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T17:27:36","slug":"sunday-night-football-preview-indianapolis-colts-vs-houston-texans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/sunday-night-football-preview-indianapolis-colts-vs-houston-texans-31096\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Night Football Preview: Indianapolis Colts vs. Houston Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indianapolis Colts vs. Houston Texans
\nSunday, 11\/3\/13, 8:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indianapolis -1.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Indianapolis -1
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 44.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 42.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Houston<\/a>
Houston Texans defensive star J.J. Watt will need to come up big Sunday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Indianapolis returns to the football field after its bye week, as the team was last seen picking up a 39-33 victory over the Denver Broncos as six-point home underdogs, while going OVER the betting total of 54.5.\u00a0 The Colts lost the statistical battle in their last three contests, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the pro football odds page in Week 9.\u00a0 The franchise is the only AFC South team with a record above .500, but it will be playing without the services of veteran wide receiver Reggie Wayne, who is out for the rest of the season with a knee injury.\u00a0 Indianapolis is 3-4 SUATS in November the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Colts have committed the fewest turnovers and penalties in the league, which is important to consider when making your NFL expert picks Sunday night.\u00a0 In two career games versus Houston, Indianapolis second-year quarterback Andrew Luck has thrown for four touchdowns and zero interceptions\u2014resulting in a 95.8 passer rating.\u00a0 On the defensive side of the ball, outside linebacker Robert Mathis needs just a half sack to set a new career-high and also give him 15.5 in his career in this rivalry.<\/p>\n

Houston has lost five games in a row, including a 17-16 setback to the Kansas City Chiefs as seven-point road underdogs on Oct. 20, while going UNDER the betting total of 38.5.\u00a0 The Texans will certainly feature running back Arian Foster, considering he\u2019s averaged 6.6 yards per carry in five career games against the Colts since a season-opening meeting in 2010.\u00a0 He\u2019s been dealing with a hamstring injury, and was limited in practice this week.\u00a0 Houston is 2-0 SUATS following its bye week the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER cashing in both of those opportunities.<\/p>\n

The Texans will start quarterback Case Keenum for a second consecutive game, as he threw for 271 yards against the Chiefs, including six completions of 25 yards or more.\u00a0 Houston defensive tackle J.J. Watt is the most important player to handicap on either side, as he\u2019s racked up four sacks in as many games in this series, while Indianapolis\u2019 offensive line has allowed 15 sacks on the year.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Texans due to their 18-7 ATS mark at home versus teams with a winning road record.<\/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":"

Indianapolis Colts vs. Houston Texans Sunday, 11\/3\/13, 8:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Indianapolis -1.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Indianapolis -1 Opening Total:\u00a0 44.5 Current Total:\u00a0 42.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Indianapolis returns to the football field after its bye week, as the team was last seen picking up a 39-33 victory over the Denver Broncos […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[2585,2046,2043,1120,126,7293,31],"class_list":["post-31096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-afc-south","tag-andrew-luck","tag-case-keenum","tag-houston-texans","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-j-j-watt","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31096","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=31096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31097,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31096\/revisions\/31097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}