{"id":2944,"date":"2008-12-07T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/texans-packers-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-07T09:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T14:52:00","slug":"texans-packers-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/texans-packers-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans-Packers Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Houston Texans and the Green Bay Packers will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Lambeau Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Packers listed as 6-point favorites versus the Texans, while the game’s total is sitting at 48. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Steve Slaton ran for 130 yards on 21 carries with two touchdowns to lead the Texans past the Jaguars 30-17 on Monday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> won as 3.5-point home favorites as the teams played under the 49-point total posted by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Packers lost to Carolina<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 35-31 as a 3-point favorite last week. The combined score went OVER the posted over\/under total (41.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Aaron Rodgers passed for 298 yards with three touchdowns and an interception for Green Bay<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while Greg Jennings caught eight passes for 91 yards and a touchdown. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 2 straight games.
Green Bay<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 5-7 SU, 6-6 ATS
Green Bay: 5-7 SU, 6-5-1<\/st1:date> ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:
When playing in December are 6-4
When playing on grass are 5-5
After being outgained are 4-6
When playing outside the division are 6-4<\/p>\n

Green Bay<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:
When playing in December are 7-3
When playing on grass are 4-6
After outgaining opponent are 6-4
When playing outside the division are 3-7<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 7 of Houston’s last 8 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 11 of Houston’s last 14 games
Houston is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games
Houston is 4-9 ATS in its last 13 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 9 of Green Bay’s last 11 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 16 of Green Bay’s last 21 games
Green Bay is 13-5 SU in its last 18 games at home
Green Bay is 8-4 ATS in its last 12 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Tennessee<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Sunday, December 14
Green Bay<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Jacksonville<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, December 14<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Houston Texans and the Green Bay Packers will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Lambeau Field. Oddsmakers currently have the Packers listed as 6-point favorites versus the Texans, while the game’s total is sitting at 48. Steve Slaton ran for 130 yards on 21 carries with two touchdowns … Continue reading Texans-Packers Preview<\/span> →<\/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-2944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944","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=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}