Here's a tidbit that no one will care about, but probably the final straw on the Camel's back that is going to put me on the Colts and our beloved Cashew.
The Texans haven't played a single afternoon or night game this season. Look at their schedule, all noon games.
Talk about the comfort of being in the same exact routine every weekend. Now these boys have to wait all day long and recycle their thoughts about the game until kickoff.
Full disclosure, I am a CJ Stroud fan, I think he is much better than Minshew. He could single handedly get a dub here. But my $ will be against him tonight under all the circumstances.
I've listened to every podcast you can think of. Read just about as much as a human can. All I'm hearing about is how good the Texans run D is, without any mention of their entire d line being banged up and questionable, with DE Grenard out.
All these dudes regurgitating stats and #'s and rankings at us, without much foresight/predictions into what will happen tonight.
The Colts o line is a good one. Here's a site that's pretty good for o line rankings:
https://www.footballguys.com/article/offensive-line-rankings
Look at the tail end of the Texans schedule. Starting with the most recent game they played.
Titans(#32) o line. The Titans ran only 15 times for 53 yards. Tannehill was sacked 5 times. Titans score 3.
Browns(#12) o line. 30 attempts for 44 yards rushing. Flacco wasn't sacked. Browns score 36.
Titans(#32). Titans ran 24 times for 66 yards. Levis was sacked 7 times. Titans put up 16 in an overtime game.
Jets(#30). Jets ran 26 times for 79 yards. Zack Wilson was sacked 4 times. Jets put up 30 points.
So if we did a recent sos of offensive lines faced, the Texans have faced crap besides the Browns(#12).
The Colts are ranked #4 by this site, and also #4 by PFF. Grenard leads the Texans in sacks. On one podcast, a guy who was backing the Texans said this..."the Grenard injury is nullified because Will Anderson Jr will play"
What? One is a left end, the other is a right end. If you are wondering how hurt Will Anderson is, he played only 12 snaps last week.
How are people like this allowed to do podcasts? He was the guy on with Aaron Schatz on a dvoa pod.
Ok I'm done rambling. Will be making a trip to the casino later. Hoping for +2.5 or +3.