Official Texans vs. Jaguars Game Thread, 1/2/2011

[WMH]

This could seriously damper my Patrick Peterson hopes.....maybe

From PFT:

David Garrard out for Jaguars’ season finale
Posted by Michael David Smith on December 29, 2010, 12:05 PM EST

The Jacksonville Jaguars’ long odds of making the playoffs just got longer.

Jaguars quarterback David Garrard will have surgery on his right middle finger tomorrow, and he’ll miss Sunday’s season finale against the Texans, the Florida Times-Union reports.

That means the Jaguars will go with Trent Edwards as the starter, with Todd Bouman backing him up, 1010XL Sports Radio in Jacksonville reports.

In order to make the playoffs, the Jaguars have to beat the Texans and hope the Colts lose to the Titans.

[HPF Bob]

AKA "trINT Edwards"? Lovely. But don't worry. We've been punked by backup quarterbacks before. Happens all the time. In fact, it happened just last week.

[Arky]

TV = CBS (Channel 11 local), 3:15pm, Sunday

Announcers = Greg Gumbel, Dan Dierdorf

Opening line = Jag by 2.5
Current line = pickem to Jags by 2.5

Walter of walterfootball.com like the Texans in this matchup and makes a good point about the Jags:

RECAP: The Jaguars need to win. That's why they're favored. And that's one of the reasons why I like the Texans.

As legendary handicapper Dave Cokin once said, "Teams that need to win aren't very good in the first place." To take it one step further, teams tend to choke when everything is on the line. Hence, the Aurora Snow Alert (Aurora Snow is a famous porn star for those of you who don't know.)

[NBT]

Jacsonville will still bring their defense - unfortunately, so will we. Same result as last week, different method.

[Arky]

Texans now a 2.5 to 3 pt favorite - I suppose because of no Garrard or (probably) MJD.

[NBT]

Kubiak and Schaub will do just enough to see that we ..............LOSE!? After all we have to protect our position in the Draft SB. Arrrggghhh! And there is no real assurance there will even be a draft.