{"id":8716,"date":"2010-10-08T00:31:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T05:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=8716"},"modified":"2010-10-08T00:31:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T05:31:21","slug":"texans-vs-giants-nfl-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/texans-vs-giants-nfl-betting-preview-8716\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans Vs Giants NFL Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Giants at Houston Texans, Reliant Stadium, Houston, TX
\nSunday, October 10, 2010, 1:00 pm EST, TV: FOX
\nOpening Line: Texans -3.5
\nCurrent Line: Texans -3
\nOpening Total: 48.5
\nCurrent Total: 47.5
\nMoney Line: Texans -150 \/ Giants +130<\/strong>
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The Texans Matt Schaub leads Houston against the Giants and they are favored by 3 points on the current line<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The New York Giants (2-2) got a victory they desperately needed last week in dominating fashion and will now try to win consecutive games for the first time this season when they visit the Houston Texans (3-1) on Sunday.\u00a0 The Giants set an NFL record with nine sacks in the first half and finished with 10 in a 17-3 rout of Chicago but face a much bigger challenge away from home when they take on the Texans (-3 on the current NFL betting odds).<\/p>\n

New York took a lot of criticism following back-to-back losses to Indianapolis and Tennessee by a combined 43 points.\u00a0 But the Giants bounced back nicely against the Bears, using a swarming defense to knock quarterback Jay Cutler out of the game at halftime.\u00a0 However, that win may serve as a mirage to anybody who watched it on national television last Sunday night because it still does not change the amount of injuries the team is dealing with that only seems to increase.<\/p>\n

Running back Ahmad Bradshaw suffered an ankle injury against Chicago while safety Kenny Phillips hurt his knee, adding to an already long list of wounded players for New York.\u00a0 Starting center Shaun O\u2019Hara (ankle) remains out, and his replacement Adam Koets sprained his MCL against the Bears but still expects to play at Houston.\u00a0 Defensive end Mathias Kiwanuka also continues to miss time with a bulging disk in his neck, although fellow defensive end Osi Umenyiora showed no signs of his knee injury with three sacks of Cutler last week.<\/p>\n

The Texans are coming off a 31-24 win at Oakland last week and will be getting reigning Defensive Rookie of the Year Brian Cushing back after he missed the first four games of the season due to a suspension for performance-enhancing drugs.\u00a0 Cushing will only help improve one of the league\u2019s best run defenses, allowing just 62.2 yards per game on the ground.<\/p>\n

Offensively, Houston has shown the ability to win games by running and passing so far.\u00a0\u00a0 Running back Arian Foster leads the NFL in rushing with 537 yards even though he did not start last week against the Raiders because he broke team rules.\u00a0 The Texans ran for over 200 yards as a team for the second time in four games at Oakland and beat Washington three weeks ago by throwing for nearly 500 yards.\u00a0 Quarterback Matt Schaub could be without wide receivers Andre Johnson (ankle) and Jacoby Jones (calf) due to injuries, making the running game even more important.<\/p>\n

The defensive secondary has been a major concern for Houston and could be tested by Giants quarterback Eli Manning.\u00a0 The Texans rank dead last in the NFL, surrendering 337.8 yards per game through the air.\u00a0 Manning threw for a season-high 386 yards in a 29-10 loss to Tennessee two weeks ago when the running game was ineffective and might be forced to do the same thing here against another AFC South opponent under similar circumstances.<\/p>\n

New York has dropped the last two regular-season meetings with Houston both straight-up and against the spread. \u00a0The UNDER has cashed in both of those games with the winner scoring no more than 16 points.<\/p>\n

Maddux Sports has come out of the NFL gates on fire posting a 76% winning run the last few weeks.\u00a0 This Sunday we have 5 NFL picks including a 20 unit game of the year pick.\u00a0 Get these easy winners and profit in week 5 by visiting our NFL betting picks page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York Giants at Houston Texans, Reliant Stadium, Houston, TX Sunday, October 10, 2010, 1:00 pm EST, TV: FOX Opening Line: Texans -3.5 Current Line: Texans -3 Opening Total: 48.5 Current Total: 47.5 Money Line: Texans -150 \/ Giants +130 Do all your NFL betting at Bookmaker Sportsbook who offers a 20% signup bonus! The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":5454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[1120,401,1772,3279],"class_list":["post-8716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-houston-texans","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfl-betting","tag-texans-giants-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716","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=8716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8784,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716\/revisions\/8784"}],"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=8716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}