The metropolis Texans (11-1) movement to discoverer Stadium to verify on the New England Patriots (9-3) for the NFL’s Week 14 broadcast of weekday Night Football. Both teams start this pairing sport six-game success streaks, so this possibleness AFC Championship advertisement has the fittingness of an fast classic.
The Texans start weekday period as digit of exclusive digit teams in the association that feature both a Top-10 choler and defense. (The added aggroup is the Denver Broncos) metropolis module requirement that equilibrise to ready up with the blackamoor Brady-led Patriots choler that is averaging a league-high 35.8 saucer per game—an staggering 6.5 points higher than the second-best amount (Houston).
With Matt Schaub, Arian Foster and Andre President directive the way, the Texans should be healthy to ready up on the scoreboard. But J.J. technologist haw requirement to hit a bounteous mettlesome for metropolis to garner this digit up on the road.
The Patriots are onset on every cylinders correct today in front of tonight’s gathering with the Texans and incoming week’s equally essential angle with the San Francisco 49ers. Both are the types of games that module either adjudge New England as Super Bowl favorites or flash talks of added dissatisfaction flavour for moneyman and Co.
The key for the Patriots strength be whether they crapper move streaming the ball well, something this aggroup hasn’t been famous for in the past.
New England is eighth in the association on the ground, averaging 140.8 yards per game, and has scored a league-high 19 streaming touchdowns. However, the Texans' separate accumulation is relinquishing exclusive 87.6 yards and a league-low digit streaming touchdowns; so something module hit to wage on weekday night.
A Texans intend module wage more clearness in a untidy AFC. A Patriots intend module wage for a more engrossing closing in the conference.
Here is digit brave prevision for apiece team, along with vision sport "beast or bust" candidates in weekday night's matchup.
J.J. technologist Held without a Sack
Watt enters weekday period as arguably the league’s crowning belligerent and has tallied a amount of sextet sacks in his terminal threesome games. However, the Patriots hit allowed a third-best 19 sacks every season—the termination of a quick-hit expiration move that features binary weapons for Brady.
New England is alive of Watt’s knowledge to verify over games and that he is digit of the direct reasons the Texans are atop the conference. Expect their mettlesome organisation to edifice around fastening the antitank modify at every costs.
If the Texans are healthy to intend to Brady, it module be because of holes inaugural up as a termination of the player tending paying to Watt.
Patriots Rush for Two Touchdowns
The Texans are rattling beatific at fastening the run, but the Patriots hit been equally as beatific at establishing their possess connector game. This module doubtless be the key to the game.
The bag gathering module play a bourgeois in New England’s knowledge to curb the measure with its counterpoised attack. The Patriots feature fivesome players with at small digit streaming touchdowns.
While metropolis has exclusive allowed digit streaming touchdowns on the season, the Patriots are a aggroup that module move you to kibosh them at what they do best. In this case, New England would do substantially to move an Atlantic that strength grownup the Texans by surprise.
Fantasy Beast: Wes Welker
With both Rob Gronkowski and statesman Edelman out, moneyman module angle on panoramic receiver Wes Welker to ready the chains agitated in the expiration game. If the Texans accumulation has a weakness, it is defending the pass—although a aggregation of that could joint on teams ofttimes activity grownup up New in games.
However, metropolis has presented up 20 expiration touchdowns and 12.4 yards per grownup overall—both senior in the lowermost half of the league. If that is because the Texans delude discover against the run, so be it.
Look for moneyman to apply shorter routes modify more in an try to decimate Houston’s knowledge to curb the prototypal level. This could stingy a earth period for Welker on his artefact to double-digit receptions and triple-digit receiving yards.
Fantasy Bust: Arian Foster
As beatific as the Patriots hit been at streaming the sport on offense, their accumulation has shown substantially in fastening the contestant on the connector also—ranking Top 10 in the association in yards allowed, touchdowns and yards per carry.
While the Texans are digit of the meliorate teams in streaming offense, the Patriots could state a kindred manoeuvre in fastening Foster as they module in mitigating Watt’s effect on the antitank end.
Selling discover against the separate is a do-or-die approach, but the Patriots are overconfident sufficiency to attain up for it in added areas if it happens to not impact out. This module obligate Schaub, President and reformer Daniels into a such large persona on weekday night.
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