Colts vs. Texans – 12/20/15 NFL Pick, Odds, and Prediction

The Colts coach fully understands the enormity of this week’s game with Houston and what it might mean if Indianapolis were to lose.

Pagano did say backup quarterback Matt Hasselbeck, injured in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s 51-16 loss at Jacksonville, is dealing with the same neck and rib injuries sustained in the previous week’s 45-10 loss at Pittsburgh. “But that game, that performance yesterday, is something we can build on for this week”. The Colts, Texans and Jaguars all could finish 8-8 in this scenario with the Texans winning the tie-breaker.

Indianapolis regained possession moments later when the Jaguars went three-and-out.

With Houston losing to New England on Sunday night, the Colts and Texans are 6-7 with three weeks remaining in the regular season (the Colts are technically in first due to their Week Five tiebreaker win over Houston). The Jaguars were 4-for-4 in their red zone trips against the Colts. You show their personnel and their schemes and things like that, but we didn’t get into where they were in the division, or the win streak they had. “But what really matters is what we do from here on out”.

“This week, it will be along the same lines”.

Injuries certainly took their toll this week, and not just the most obvious one.

No matter how Marshall ends up impacting the Jaguars success on defense, it seems the coaching staff is willing to figure out what they have in him. After scoring touchdowns on six of six red-zone opportunities in a 42-39 loss to Tennessee the week before, the Jaguars scored touchdowns on four of four red-zone opportunities Sunday.

“It was about as badly as we can play”, Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan said.

Outside of a 57-yard reception given up to Pro Bowl wide receiver T.Y. Hilton in the first half, Marshall was largely successful. That fumble resulted in a 49-yard return for a touchdown which turned a 13-3 Colts lead into a 13-9 game. If Hoyer does not go then the Texans will have to start T.J. Yates.

“The hope is you start practicing maybe before that time so when you are cleared to play you can hit the ground running”, he said. Yeldon. A couple more touchdown tosses to Allen Robinson and Julius Thomas essentially sealed the game for the Jaguars.

Bradley begrudgingly obliged, allowing Blake Bortles to put a finishing touch on Jacksonville’s most complete – and maybe most important – victory in the head coach’s three seasons. If Hurns can total 137 receiving yards in his final three games, he and Robinson would become just the second Jaguars duo to top 1,000 yards in the same season.

Meanwhile, there’s a Jacksonville Jaguars team lurking just a game back of both, and their quarterback – Blake Bortles – is healthy and has 30 TD passes, which is one fewer than Carson Palmer and only three back of Tom Brady. Opposing teams are able to do too much against them through the air and that has definitely been the case once again this season.

“I don’t give a (expletive) how we get in, all we gotta do is get in”, defensive end Kendall Langford barked in the locker room Sunday afternoon in Jacksonville. It’s a great message. Boykin does the fundamentals of pass coverage very well, as you will see in the other two plays.