{"id":2779,"date":"2008-11-22T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/texans-browns-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-11-22T22:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T03:55:00","slug":"texans-browns-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/texans-browns-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans-Browns Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Houston Texans and the Cleveland Browns will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Cleveland Browns Stadium. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Oddsmakers currently have the Browns listed as 3-point favorites versus the Texans, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 50\u00bd. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Texans lost to <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:City><st1:place>Indianapolis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 33-27 as an 8-point underdog in Week 11. The combined score went OVER the posted over\/under total (50.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Sage Rosenfels passed for 192 yards with an interception for <st1:City><st1:place>Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while Steve Slaton rushed for 156 yards and a touchdown on 14 carries. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Phil Dawson&#8217;s 56-yard field goal with <st1:time Hour=\"13\" Minute=\"44\">1:44<\/st1:time> remaining lifted the Browns over the Bills 29-27 on Monday night. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:City><st1:place>Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> cashed as 4-point road underdogs as the teams played over the 43-point total listed by oddsmakers. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 3 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 3-7 SU, 4-6 ATS <br \/>Cleveland: 4-6 SU, 6-4 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:City><st1:place>Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:<br \/>When playing in November are 3-7<br \/>When playing on grass are 5-5<br \/>After being outgained are 3-7<br \/>When playing outside the division are 6-4<\/p>\n<p><st1:City><st1:place>Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:<br \/>When playing in November are 5-5<br \/>When playing on grass are 4-6<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 5-5<br \/>When playing outside the division are 6-4<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Houston&#8217;s last 5 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 11 of Houston&#8217;s last 12 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Houston&#8217;s last 5 games when playing Cleveland<br \/>Houston is 2-4 ATS in its last 6 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Cleveland&#8217;s last 5 games when playing Houston<br \/>Cleveland is 9-3 ATS in its last 12 games at home<br \/>Cleveland is 18-7 ATS in its last 25 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 11 of Cleveland&#8217;s last 16 games <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:City><st1:place>Jacksonville<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Monday, December 1<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:City><st1:place>Indianapolis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, November 30<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\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 Cleveland Browns will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Cleveland Browns Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Browns listed as 3-point favorites versus the Texans, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 50\u00bd. The Texans lost to Indianapolis 33-27 as an 8-point underdog in Week &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/texans-browns-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texans-Browns 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-2779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779","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=2779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}