CLICK TO GRAB OUR BEST Expert NFL Picks for 2013 NFL PLAYOFFS Betting!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nIn beating the Bengals the Texans leaned heavily on running back Arian Foster. \u00a0He toted the rock 32 times, a season high, for 140 yards, also a season high.<\/p>\n
The Texans controlled the clock, holding the ball for almost \u2154 of the game while their defense gave up less than 200 yards of offense to the Bengals.<\/p>\n
They will need a similar performance to beat the Patriots…Though they amassed a very nice record the Texans were not a good ATS play this season. \u00a0They covered last week as a small favourite but find themselves as a big dog this weekend.<\/p>\n
There is good value on Houston but you might want to wait until closer to game time as money usually comes in on the Pats so you might get 10 or 10.5.<\/p>\n
New England<\/h3>\n
New England finds themselves in a familiar position, waiting at home to start the playoffs.<\/p>\n
After the beating they put on the Texans last month they should be feeling pretty good about getting things started on another Super Bowl run on Sunday. \u00a0This is a big line based on the ease with which the Patriots handled the Texans and the major differences in playoff experience between these two teams… [soliloquy id=”82219″]<\/p>\n
QB Tom Brady was superb against Houston, throwing for 4 touchdowns. \u00a0He has enjoyed another fine season and is definitely in the running for MVP.<\/p>\n
In that game they were able to have a productive ground game too which has been a steady part of their game this season – they finished 7th in rushing – making them even harder to play catch up against…<\/p>\n
The Patriots are no strangers to being prohibitive favourites – in more than half of their games they have been favoured by 7 points or more.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t see an upset in the making but I think the Texans will be able to keep this one within reach and watch out for the backdoor cover.<\/p>\n
Spread Pick: \u00a0Houston +9.5<\/strong>
\n O\/U Pick: \u00a0Over<\/strong>
\n Score Prediction: \u00a0New England 30 – Houston 24<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texans vs Patriots \u00a0NFL Football Spread\/Handicapping Another rematch to close out the Divisional Round of the playoffs. \u00a0Houston was embarrassed on their first visit to Foxborough. \u00a0I expect they will play better but the end result is likely the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":25328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[53103,42260,57697,1783,1802,57731,57732,22685,4898,10717,844,849,57733],"class_list":["post-59220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl","tag-53103","tag-afc-wild-card","tag-divisional-playoff-free-picks","tag-houston-texans","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-new-england-patriots-vs-houston-texans","tag-new-england-vs-houston","tag-nfl-divisional-playoff-lines","tag-nfl-football-odds","tag-nfl-football-predictions","tag-nfl-picks","tag-nfl-playoffs","tag-patriots-vs-texans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59220","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\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59220"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59283,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59220\/revisions\/59283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}