{"id":2521,"date":"2008-11-01T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T03:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/texans-vikings-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-11-01T22:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T03:33:00","slug":"texans-vikings-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/texans-vikings-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans-Vikings Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Texans and the Minnesota Vikings will both<br \/>be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle<br \/>at The Metrodome. <br \/>Oddsmakers currently have the Vikings listed as<br \/>5-point favorites versus the Texans, while the game&#39;s<br \/>total is sitting at 47. <br \/>The Texans defeated Cincinnati 35-6 as a 9-point<br \/>favorite in Week 8. The combined score fell UNDER the<br \/>posted over\/under total (45.5). <br \/>Matt Schaub passed for 280 yards with three touchdowns<br \/>for Houston, while Kevin Walter caught five passes for<br \/>70 yards with a pair of touchdowns in the win. <br \/>Gus Frerotte was picked off four times in Minnesota&#39;s<br \/>48-41 loss to the Bears in Week 7. <br \/>The Bears managed to cover the 3-point spread at home<br \/>in that contest, while the combined score went well<br \/>OVER the day&#39;s posted total (37.5). <br \/>Current streak:<br \/>Houston has won 3 straight games.<br \/>Team records:<br \/>Houston: 3-4 SU, 3-4 ATS <br \/>Minnesota: 3-4 SU, 2-5 ATS <br \/>Houston most recently:<br \/>When playing in November are 3-7<br \/>When playing on turf are 0-10<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 6-4<br \/>When playing outside the division are 7-3<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota most recently:<br \/>When playing in November are 6-4<br \/>When playing on turf are 8-2<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 3-7<br \/>When playing outside the division are 6-4<br \/>A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Houston&#39;s last 5 games<br \/>on the road<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 8 of Houston&#39;s last 9 games<\/p>\n<p>Houston is 1-5 ATS in its last 6 games on the road<br \/>Houston is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Minnesota&#39;s last 5<br \/>games at home<br \/>Minnesota is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games at home<br \/>Minnesota is 3-6 SU in its last 9 games <br \/>Minnesota is 1-4 ATS in its last 5 games at home<br \/>Next up:<br \/>Houston home to Baltimore, Sunday, November 9<br \/>Minnesota home to Green Bay, Sunday, November 9<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Texans and the Minnesota Vikings will bothbe trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battleat The Metrodome. Oddsmakers currently have the Vikings listed as5-point favorites versus the Texans, while the game&#39;stotal is sitting at 47. The Texans defeated Cincinnati 35-6 as a 9-pointfavorite in Week 8. The combined score fell &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/texans-vikings-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texans-Vikings Preview<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}