The AFC South is officially up for grabs this Sunday. Houston had a golden opportunity to distance itself from Tennessee last week with the Titans on the bye but couldn\u2019t get the job done against a tough Baltimore team. The winner of this week\u2019s Texans\/Titans showdown will sit alone atop the division. <\/p>\n
NFL Week 7: Texans vs Titans<\/strong> Houston Texans (3-3)<\/strong><\/p>\n It feels to cheesy to toss out the term \u201cmust-win\u201d in Week 7, but this Sunday\u2019s game will tell us a lot about Houston. After starting 3-1, the Texans have slipped to 3-3. A loss at Tennessee could signal the start of yet another Texans collapse. A victory might tell us that the defeats to Oakland and Baltimore were simply blips on the radar against strong opponents.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not like Baltimore blew Houston\u2019s defense out of the water last week. In fact, the game ended 29-14 and the 15-point margin came from five Billy Cundiff field goals. Under Wade Phillips and even with Mario Williams injured, Houston\u2019s \u201cD\u201d is much improved in 2010.<\/p>\n What\u2019s really suffering of late is Houston\u2019s passing game. Is it a conservative approach? A lack of a gamebreaker with Andre Johnson injured? For whatever reason, Matt Schaub hasn\u2019t shredded defenses like he has the last few seasons. [soliloquy id=”82219″]<\/p>\n Tennessee Titans (3-2)<\/strong><\/p>\n Week 7 is important for Tennessee, too. Its last outing was ugly. The Titans got walloped 38-17 by Pittsburgh and Ben Roethlisberger lit them up for five touchdown passes. Tennessee also got little offense going in that contest.<\/p>\n Before that loss, however, (a) The Titans had a top-10 defense and (b) Matt Hasselbeck and their passing game were flourishing. Which version of Tennessee is the real one?<\/p>\n The pick:<\/strong><\/p>\n Personally, I believe the Tennessee team that lost to Pittsburgh was closer to the real thing. Yes, the Week-2 win over Baltimore was impressive, but Tennessee\u2019s other two victories came against Denver and Cleveland. The Titans also lost to Jacksonville of all teams.<\/p>\n Matt Hasselbeck is still pushing 40, he no longer has Kenny Britt (torn ACL) as his top downfield weapon and teams may be figuring out that they can slow him down if they get enough hits on him. I expect Houston to get to Hasselbeck with solid game-planning from Phillips. I also think the Texans\u2019 balanced offense, which mirrors Pittsburgh\u2019s in some ways, will do enough to solve the Titans\u2019 \u201cD.\u201d<\/p>\n Texans vs Titans prediction:\u00a0 Texans 27, Titans 17<\/strong><\/p>\n Money Line: Texans +160 The 2011 NFL Season is finally here. Welcome to the CappersPicks.com NFL football weekly predictions pages! We KNOW you will find our FREE weekly NFL football picks<\/strong><\/a>, tips, betting advice, strategies, NFL gambling articles and more to help you become the best NFL football bettor on your block!!<\/p>\n NFL Week 7 betting has arrived, we\u2019ve got the point spreads, and our man Shea Matthews weighs in with a free nfl pick and preview for the matchup between the Houston Texans vs Tennessee Titans NFL Preview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":21919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[155,463,577,1783,17479,10717,2496,2149,1223,52770,1234],"class_list":["post-44783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl","tag-bet-on-nfl-football","tag-free-nfl-picks","tag-houston","tag-houston-texans","tag-houston-texans-vs-tennessee-titans","tag-nfl-football-predictions","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-texans","tag-texans-titans-lines","tag-titans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44817,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44783\/revisions\/44817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDate: <\/strong>Sunday, October 23, 2011
\nVenue: <\/strong>LP Field, Nashville, Tennessee
\nBroadcast: <\/strong>CBS
\nHouston Texans at Tennessee Titans Betting Lines from BetOnline.com<\/strong>
\nMoney Line: <\/strong>Texans +160, Titans -190
\nSpread: <\/strong>Titans -3
\nOver\/Under: <\/strong>44.5<\/p>\n
\nSpread: Texans +3
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