NFL - Houston Texans v Titans

Tennessee Titans @ Houston Texans (MNF)

Tennessee after the Bye Week on Week 7 has nicely improved, specially after QB Vince Young returned to the starting lineup, scoring 3 straight wins, but for me the main reason for such improvement is due to a better performance of the Titans D, both against the opponent's rushing game and on their secondary, but truth be told, they haven't faced yet a strong offensive team like the Texans and I think that tonight they will have huge problems in order to stop Houston's passing game.

Titans offense has improved with Vince Young doing safe passes and he hasn't throw many interceptions. Young counts with WR Nate Johnson, WR Kenny Brit, WR Justin Cage and TE Bo Scaife to pass the ball, they aren't bad players on one side, but are a little bit far from the best in their roles and positions on the league. This troop will face a good passing defense, but what has given some results to the Texans O has been the running game with rusher RB Chris Johnson completely dominating on his last 3 games (495 yards) with an impressive 6.6 YPC and 6 scored touchdowns, and I believe he will again do a good game Tennessee now rely too much on him and will use it a lot on this game, since the Houston defense is much more stronger against the passing game than against the ground offense.

I rate Houston as a good team, they have been playing well and their last losses were against good teams and against the Colts they manage to give a good reply thanks to their good offense. QB Matt Schaub is doing great season and counts with WR Andre Johnson, WR Kevin Walter and TE Joel Dreesen. Schaub has good weapons on his offense, specially Andre Johnson who is for me one of the best wide receivers of the NFL.

Texans ground offense is average, their rushers are RB Steve Slaton (3.1 YPC) and RB Ryan Moats (4.1 YPC) per carry can give some diversity to Houston offense and both are always able to win some yards, but this kind of game is seldom used by the Texans, because they prefer to use the passing game, which is quite obvious thanks to their good array of wide receivers and a nice quarterback.

On the defense, Houston has some troubles to stop the opponents' ground offense and surely Chris Johnson will present some problems to this Texans D, but every defense unit who faces Johnson as always troubles ahead. Since the Titans are using much more the running game, the Houston should focus much more on this kind of game, because their secondary has been playing well and are doing a good men coverage.

I see value on the Houston -4 line since I don't believe that Tennessee will be able to stop the Texans passing game which is really quite good, has a quarterback in great shape with great tools for his job on the wide receivers' role. Houston is also very motivated and after the Bye Week they really want to give a good show and even with Chris Johnson on the other side, the Texans will score a lot of points and win this game by 1 or more touchdowns.

Pick: Houston Texans -4 -110 (1.91) Bookmaker

Pick : Houston Texans -3.5
Odds : 1.91
Stake : 8 / 10
Bookmaker : Boylesports
Match Result : 17-20
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