{"id":35911,"date":"2014-10-23T12:30:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T17:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35911"},"modified":"2014-10-23T12:30:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T17:30:18","slug":"nfl-week-8-picks-houston-texans-vs-tennessee-titans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-week-8-picks-houston-texans-vs-tennessee-titans-35911\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 8 Picks: Houston Texans vs. Tennessee Titans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston Texans vs. Tennessee Titans
\nSunday, 10\/26\/14, 1:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Houston -1
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Houston -2.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 43.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 42
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Houston Texans have a good opportunity to end their current losing streak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Houston has lost three games in a row, including a 30-23 setback to the Pittsburgh Steelers as three-point road underdogs on ESPN\u2019s Monday Night Football, but it did win the statistical battle by 65 yards.\u00a0 The Texans will feature running back Arian Foster in this matchup, which is important to consider when making your Week 8 NFL betting picks, as he ranks second in the league with 615 rushing yards.\u00a0 Houston is 6-7 SU and 5-8 ATS versus AFC South division opponents the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 7-6 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Texans are looking to get more production from signal-caller Ryan Fitzpatrick in first-year head coach Bill O\u2019Brien\u2019s system, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the NFL betting lines, as he\u2019s averaging 218.6 passing yards per game.\u00a0 He\u2019s certainly familiar with this week\u2019s opponents personnel on the other side of the ball, as he compiled a 82.0 passer rating in 11 games as a member of the Titans in 2013.\u00a0 The franchise has won three of its four meetings in this series.<\/p>\n

Tennessee has dropped five of its last six games, which has led first-year head coach Ken Whisenhunt to make a decision under center, as he intends on starting former LSU Tigers star Zach Mettenberger.\u00a0 The Titans haven\u2019t been very balanced offensively with No. 1 starter Jake Locker being injured and backup Charlie Whitehurst being mediocre at best\u2014resulting in just 76 yards on the ground in a 19-17 defeat to the Washington Redskins in Week 7.\u00a0 Tennessee is 4-10 SU and 2-10-2 ATS versus division opponents the last two-plus seasons, with no clear edge in the betting total (7-7 Over\/Under).<\/p>\n

The Titans are just looking for a spark on the offensive end, as they were held to just 236 total yards a week ago\u2014the lowest such number for the team in 17 contests dating back to last season.\u00a0 Tennessee will find things difficult on that side of the ball once again, as it has to find a way to block Houston all-world defensive lineman J.J. Watt, who is a legitimate NFL MVP candidate.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Texans due to their 4-1-1 ATS mark in their last six meetings in this series.<\/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 vs. Tennessee Titans Sunday, 10\/26\/14, 1:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Houston -1 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Houston -2.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 43.5 Current Total:\u00a0 42 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Houston has lost three games in a row, including a 30-23 setback to the Pittsburgh Steelers as three-point road underdogs on ESPN\u2019s Monday Night Football, […]<\/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":[5456,1120,7293,31,301,1408],"class_list":["post-35911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-arian-foster","tag-houston-texans","tag-j-j-watt","tag-nfl","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-zach-mettenberger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35911","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=35911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35912,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35911\/revisions\/35912"}],"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=35911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}