After their dismal performances last season, the Jacksonville Jaguars and Houston Texans are looking to rebound in 2011-2012, and so they will see each other on the field in Week 8 of the NFL season. Both teams were simply awful on defense a year ago, with the Texans 29th in points allowed and the Jaguars 27th. Both teams, again, are making a wide range of progress on the defensive end over the first 7 weeks of this season.
The Jaguars, though, are having numerous problems on offense this year. They are dead last in the league in total yards, rushing TDs, first downs, and passing yards. The squad is also close to last place in a number of areas, notably passing TDs and points scored. Their performance thus far this season has been disappointing, to say the least, and there is really absolutely no reason one can anticipate them to do any better this week up against the Texans.
Does the Houston defense even really need to do one thing to stop the Jags’ offense? Whilst the Jaguars do a top notch job of failing at every offensive play, the Houstons still must stop Jones-Drew and force them into long plays on 2nd and 3rd downs. And on the offensive end, the Texans need to keep their game dynamic, throwing different types of plays at the Jags defense. Fortunately for Jacksonville, their defense has been improved enough to give the Texans some trouble.
Both teams have had a painful early schedule so far, but do not count the Jaguars out as of this time. Although the Texans are the slightly better team in this match-up, the Jags can hang around and keep games close. Jacksonville just has been completely blown out from one game so far this season – a 32-3 loss to the Jets – but have struggled to drag out more than a several wins. The Texans will have to turn up strong and build up a lead if they hope to keep the Jaguars out of the game for good
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The Texans are the -9 ½ point favorites with the over-under at 40 ½ points.
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