Houston Bowl: Texans host Titans
On Monday night football betting the former Houston franchise (the Tennessee Titans) will take on the current Houston franchise. This is an interesting matchup for any number of reasons the least of which is the Houston connection.
Since re-instating Vince Young as the starting QB the Titans are a perfect 3-0; that’s a pretty big deal for a team that started the season 0-6. The team will look to run its record to 4-6 in the Monday Night football betting, something that once seemed impossible.
Tennessee’s best weapon, Chris Johnson is putting together one of the best statistical years a RB has had in years. He’s already broken the 1,000 yard barrier and is averaging 121 yards a game on an astounding 6.4 yards per carry.
The Texans must slow down Johnson to win this Monday Night football odds contest. Stopping him completely isn’t likely to happen, not with his big play potential but if they can keep him under 100 yards the Texans will win.
Houston has plenty of big play capabilities of its own with QB Matt Schaub averaging almost 300 yards passing a game. Andre Johnson is one of best WRs in the game and should feast on a mediocre Titans secondary. The Texans also are coming off a bye week and this, more than any other factory, make them the favorite in the Monday Night football betting.
Young always plays well when he returns home to Houston but this year the team just doesn’t have the depth of weapons and so long as Houston doesn’t look past the Titans to next week’s game against the Colts this should be a pretty pedestrian win for the home team.