Official Texans @ Titans Game Thread, 1/01/2017

[Arky]

This Sunday, the 9-6 Houston Texans hit the road to Nashville for their final regular season game. They will face the 8-7 Tennessee Titans in a noon game on Sunday. The Texans have 2-5 record (also 2-5 ATS) on the road this year while the Titans have a 4-3 (3-4 ATS) home record.

Titan QB Matt Cassel is expected to make the start for the recently injured Marcus Mariota. Expect Cassel to do quite a bit of handing off to DeMarco Murray (1266 yds, 4.5 avg) and Derrick Henry (425 yds, 4.5 avg.). In the passing game, targets will be Rishard Matthews (831 yds, 14.8 avg.), Delanie Walker (765 yds, 12.8 avg), Tajae Sharpe (522 yds, 12.7 avg.), Kendall Wright (416 yds, 14.3 avg) and Murray coming out of the backfield (379 yds, 7.3 avg). On the other side of the ball, the Titan defense currently ranks 21st giving up 362.1 yds/game and 19th giving up 24.1 pts/game. The Titans are coming off a 38-17 road loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars.

The Texans may rest a few key starters but Coach Bill O'Brien has mentioned that he wants the W in order to increase the Texans three-game winning streak going into the playoffs... The Texans won the first meeting between these two back in Week 4, 27-20 on the strength of a Will Fuller punt return TD.

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TV = CBS (channel 11 local), noon Sunday, Jan 1, 2017

Announcers = Tom McCarthy, Adam Archuleta

The line = Titans by 3

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Other Sunday viewing in the Houston area (it's double double-header day):

CBS (late) = Oakland @ Denver, Jim Nantz, Phil Simms

FOX (early) = Dallas @ Philadelphia, Kevin Burkhardt, John Lynch

FOX (late) = NY Giants @ Washington, Joe Buck, Troy Aikman

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Prime time:

SNF = Green Bay @ Detroit (NBC)