{"id":56945,"date":"2012-11-01T07:41:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T14:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=56945"},"modified":"2012-11-01T07:41:39","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T14:41:39","slug":"buffalo-vs-houston-week-9-handicapping-predictions-11112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/nfl\/buffalo-vs-houston-week-9-handicapping-predictions-11112\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills vs Texans Gambling Odds &#038; Week 9 Free NFL Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Buffalo vs Houston Betting<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Headline: Post Bye-Week Battle \u2013 Buffalo Travels to Houston in Week 9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The top team in the AFC the Houston Texans return to action this week after an uber-impressive beat down of the Baltimore Ravens and a bye week to take on a thus far underwhelming Buffalo team also coming off a much needed bye. The oddsmakers aren\u2019t giving the Bills a whole lot of love in this one \u2013 a double digit spread will likely be a reality ahead of this game. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Buffalo Bills (3-4) vs. Houston Texans (6-1)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Date\/Time: Sunday, November 4, 1:00 PM ET<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Venue: Reliant Stadium<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Broadcast: CBS<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Bills vs. Texans Betting Lines from <a title=\"Bovada\" href=\"https:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/go\/bovada\">Bovada<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Spread: Texans -10 (-110)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Moneyline: Bills +415: Texans -510<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Over\/Under: 47 points<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/capperspicks.sportsdirectinc.com\/football\/nfl-matchups.aspx?page=\/data\/NFL\/matchups\/g1_summary_8.html\" target=\"_parent\" rel=\"nofollow\">ATS Matchup Stats<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/capperspicks.sportsdirectinc.com\/football\/nfl-preview.aspx?page=\/data\/NFL\/matchups\/g1_preview_8.html\" target=\"_parent\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gambling Insight!<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/handicappers\/ray-monohan-sports-picks\" target=\"_parent\">Buy Ray&#8217;s Picks!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Buffalo Bills came into this season with lofty goals \u2013 the signing of Mario Williams was supposed to shore up the one perceived weakness on the team \u2013 that hasn\u2019t happened. Mario Williams has been invisible, the defense has been awful and the Bills sit under .500 yet again.<\/p>\n<p>The Bills come into Sunday\u2019s game as the 12th best scoring offense in the game \u2013 24.43 points per game. They have arguably the best one-two punch out of their backfield with Fred Jackson and CJ Spiller \u2013 together the Bills rank 4th in rushing in the NFL. <\/p>\n<h3><a title=\"NFL Picks\" href=\"\/handicappers\/\"><strong>CLICK GRAB OUR BEST Expert NFL Picks for 2012 FOOTBALL GAMBLING season!<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Where the Bills struggle on offense is in the passing game \u2013 29th and averaging under 200 yards per game. Is Ryan Fitzpatrick solely to blame? Likely not. Is he the answer to the Bills passing woes? Again&#8230; likely not.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s not mince word here \u2013 the Bills are where they are because of their brutal, ugly, horrendous defense. They allow 32.43 points per game \u2013 last in the NFL, they allow 176.86 yards rushing per game \u2013 last in the NFL and they surrendered 247.29 yards per game through the air \u2013 22nd in the league. If they can\u2019t stop anyone, it will not matter what the offense does \u2013 they will lose more that they win \u2013 period!<\/p>\n<p>The Houston Texans are coming off a statement game against Baltimore two weeks ago -they established themselves as the unquestioned leader of the AFC pack with their impressive win. Now the trick is to keep the role going coming out of their bye. Did the bye help? Likely not \u2013 the Texans had a tremendous amount of momentum prior to and will have to rebuild some of that momentum in quick fashion this week. [soliloquy id=&#8221;82219&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>The Texans offense is deep, balanced and scary. They too have an incredible rushing tandem \u2013 Arian Foster and Ben Tate have the Texans 6th in the NFL with an average of 140 yards per game. The Texans also have a somewhat under-utilized yet talented passing game at their disposal. Matt Schaub, Andre Johnson and Owen Daniels have Houston as the 18th ranked passing game in the NFL \u2013 it would be better if the Texans actually needed their passing game to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>The Houston defense has been amazing this year \u2013 a supreme challenge for any of their opposition. JJ Watt and company are 5th against the pass and 4th versus the run. They give up just 18.29 points per game \u2013 good for 6th in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Betting Prediction<\/strong>: <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The total has gone OVER in 8 of Buffalo&#8217;s last 10 games<br \/>\n\u2022 The total has gone OVER in 9 of Buffalo&#8217;s last 13 games on the road<br \/>\n\u2022 Buffalo is 5-11 ATS in its last 16 games<br \/>\n\u2022 Buffalo is 3-7-1 ATS in its last 11 games on the road<br \/>\n\u2022 Houston is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games<br \/>\n\u2022 The total has gone OVER in 5 of Houston&#8217;s last 6 games at home<br \/>\n\u2022 The total has gone OVER in 4 of Houston&#8217;s last 5 games<br \/>\n\u2022 Houston is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games at home<\/p>\n<p>Any time that you have a double-digit spread in a game, you have to take a look at the dog. This is the case here as well! Buffalo has the running game to control the clock, the Texans will likely need a half of so to get clicking on all cylinders once again and Mario Williams absolutely has to be a factor this week \u2013 wouldn\u2019t you say? It all adds up to a closer game than the oddsmakers have predicted. I\u2019m not saying the Bills upset the Texans \u2013 I\u2019m saying they keep the score respectable!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pick:<\/strong> Buffalo Bills +10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo vs Houston Betting Headline: Post Bye-Week Battle \u2013 Buffalo Travels to Houston in Week 9 The top team in the AFC the Houston Texans return to action this week after an uber-impressive beat down of the Baltimore Ravens and a bye week to take on a thus far underwhelming Buffalo team also coming off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":29252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[56929,56930,56931,56932,56933,56934,463,802,830,856,4022,56920,3996],"class_list":["post-56945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl","tag-bills-texans-line","tag-bills-vs-texans","tag-bills-vs-texans-odds","tag-bills-vs-texans-point-spread","tag-buffalo-bills-vs-houston-texans","tag-buffalo-vs-houston","tag-free-nfl-picks","tag-nfl-betting","tag-nfl-handicapping","tag-nfl-predictions","tag-nfl-week-9-odds","tag-pittsbugh","tag-week-nine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56945","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56945"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56993,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56945\/revisions\/56993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}