The Texans (10-4) have already wrapped up the AFC South, but they are coming off a shocking home loss to the 5-9 Carolina Panthers while the Colts (1-13) finally won their first game of the season last week. <\/p>\n
Venue\/ Stadium: Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, IN Houston Texans vs. Indianapolis Colts Preview<\/strong><\/p>\n In the first game of the season the Texans crushed the Colts 34-7 and NFL lines have Houston as 5.5-point away favorites in this game.<\/p>\n In their last games the Texans lost to the Carolina Panthers 28-13 while the Colts got in the W column with a 27-13 home win over the Tennessee Titans.<\/p>\n On the season the Colts are 5-9 ATS with an Over\/Under record of 9-5 and the Texans are 9-4-1 ATS with an Over\/Under record of 7-7.<\/p>\n The Texans still have a chance to get a bye in the first round of the playoffs, but they trail the Patriots by 1 game in the AFC and are tied at 10-4 with 2 other teams in the conference.<\/p>\n The Texans’ defense has one goal and that is to stop Colts’ RB Donald Brown, who had a career game rushing for 161 yards last week against the Titans. I mean, the Colts won that game and Indy QB Dan Orlovsky was only 11\/17 for 82 yards. He did throw a TD and was not picked off, but he will not fare well again in this game facing a Houston pass defense that ranks 2nd in the league.<\/p>\n Houston lost to the Panthers, but their pass defense did not play that bad holding Cam Newton to only 149 yards. However, they did allow him to pass for 2 TD, had no INT, and their run defense gave up 166 rushing yards. [soliloquy id=”82219″]<\/p>\n The reason the Texans lost last week was that they had 3 turnovers and T.J. Yates had 2 of them with 2 picks. Houston will be without their main WR, as Andre Johnson will miss yet another game with a hamstring injury. Yates has to avoid the turnover and if he does that the Texans should easily win this game.<\/p>\n While the Colts only gave up 66 rushing yards in the win over the Titans they were facing a banged up Chris Johnson and they will not be as lucky in this game facing a healthy Adrian Foster, who rushed for 109 yards and also caught five passes for 58 yards last week. He has rushed for over 400 yards in his 2 career games against the Colts and he will have a big game this Thursday facing a Colts’ run defense that only ranks 28th in the league.<\/p>\n Texans vs. Colts Betting Trends<\/strong><\/p>\n The Texans are 4-0 ATS in their last 4 road games, 5-1 ATS in their last 6 games as a road favorite, and they have an Under record of 7-3 in their last 10 games as a road favorite.<\/p>\n The Colts are 1-4 ATS in their last 5 home games, 3-7 ATS in their last 10 games, and they have an Under record of 4-0 in their last 4 home games.<\/p>\n Jason’s Pick:<\/strong> Sure, the Colts won last week, but they will not win their 2nd straight since Texas will play better D than they did last week and they will rush for a ton of yards. Texas will cover the 5.5-point spread and take the Under since each team will rely on the run to move the chains.<\/p>\n Carolina Panthers vs. Texans Texans Week 15 Gambling. While the Colts only gave up 66 rushing yards in the win over the Titans they were facing a banged up Chris Johnson and they will not be as lucky in this game facing a healthy Adrian Foster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":24244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2943,4672,840,844,2942,6639,53213,6625],"class_list":["post-46797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl","tag-houston-texans-vs-indianapolis-colts","tag-houston-vs-indianapolis","tag-nfl-odds","tag-nfl-picks","tag-texans-vs-colts","tag-week-16","tag-week-16-gambling","tag-week-16-nfl-predictions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46797","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\/193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46797"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46799,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46797\/revisions\/46799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTime\/Date: 8:20 PM EST Thursday, December 22, 2011
\nNCAA Odds From: BetOnline.com
\nMoneyline: Texans -260 \/ Colts +220
\nSpread (ATS): Texans -5.5
\nOver\/Under: 40<\/strong><\/p>\nVIEW OUR TOP CAPPERS PICKS FOR ALL SPORTS – EVERY SINGLE DAY 24\/7 \u2014\u2013><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"