As the NFL standings looked entering Week 14, this Sunday’s
Houston-Cincinnati matchup would be a wild-card weekend game come January, with
the Texans as the AFC South champ and No. 3 seed and Cincinnati as the final
wild-card club. The Bengals opened as 3-point favorites on Bodog’s NFL football
odds.
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Houston (9-3, 8-3-1 ATS) beat a good Atlanta
team 17-10 last week in the first career start for rookie first-round pick
quarterback T.J Yates, the former third-stringer who threw for
188 yards and a touchdown with no picks, posting a very solid 86.8 passer
rating. The Texans relied mostly on their stellar running game behind
Arian Foster and Ben Tate, with Foster rushing
31 times for 111 yards to lead the way. He the NFL in scrimmage yards per
game with 142.6.
It was Houston’s franchise-record sixth straight win.
The Texans are a win away from the highest win total in franchise history and
seem destined for the city’s first NFL playoff berth since the Oilers were in
the 1993 postseason. But the victory over Atlanta was a bit costly as All-Pro
wide receiver Andre Johnson aggravated his left hamstring
injury. He injured his right hamstring in Week 4, underwent minor surgery and
sat out six games but this injury is muss less severe. Punter Brett
Hartmann caught his left foot in the turf and tore his left anterior
cruciate ligament late in the game and is done for the year. Hartmann also
handled the kickoffs.
The Bengals (7-5, 7-4-1 ATS) lost their third in
their last four games on Sunday, 35-7 at Pittsburgh. The Cincy offense was shut
down, managing only 232 total yards. Rookie quarterback Andy Dalton
passed for just 135 yards and spent the fourth quarter on the bench as
a preventative measure with the game out of reach. That offense could struggle
again vs. a Houston defense that ranks rank fourth in stopping the run (90.7
ypg) and pass (183.4 ypg), and has held each of its last six opponents below 20
points. Cincy’s defense is No. 6 overall, so this figures to be a low-scoring
game.
The Bengals lead the all-time series 3-2 but Houston has won the
last two. Last meeting was in Week 6 of the 2009 season when the Texans won
28-17 at Paul Brown Stadium. Houston is 1-4 ATS in its past five as a road dog.
Bengals are 0-3-1 ATS in past four overall.
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