Official Texans vs. Colts Game Thread, 12/09/2018

[Arky]

Week 14 of the NFL finds the 9-3 Texans hosting the 6-6 Colts this Sunday in an early game. The Texans are coming off a 29-13 home win over the Browns, the Colts are coming off a 6-0 road loss to the Jags. The Jags were able to bottle up RB's Marion Mack (8/27 yds) and Nyheim Hines and force QB Andrew Luck into a dink & dunk game. TE Eric Ebron and WR T.Y. Hilton were a combined 18/158 yds, no TD's. That would be the blueprint but holding the Colts scoreless for two games in a row will obviously be very difficult. After the shutout, the Colts still rank 8th in the league scoring 27.1 pts/game.

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TV = CBS (channel 11 local), noon CST, Sunday, 12/9/2018

Announcers = Kevin Harlan, Rich Gannon

The line = Texans by 4½ to 5

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Other Sunday viewing in the Houston area:

FOX (late) = Philadelphia @ Dallas, Joe Buck, Troy Aikman

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Prime time:

TNF = Jacksonville @ Tennessee (FOX/NFLN)

SNF = LA Rams @ Chicago (NBC)

MNF = Minnesota @ Seattle (ESPN)