BY ADAM GREENE<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You know, if there was ever a time for the NFL to step up and deliver a solid NFL slate it\u2019s Thanksgiving, 2020, when most of us SHOULD be keeping to ourselves and not trying our resolute best to kill each other\u2019s grandparents. Instead, we get this stinker to open our Turkey Day Football festivities as the Houston Texans travel to Motor City to take on the Detroit Lions in a game that Scott Hanson would apologize to for pulling up on NFL Redzone because every other game was in commercial break or at halftime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
HOUSTON<\/strong> TEXANS AT DETROIT LIONS (+2.5, O\/U: 51.5)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Location:<\/strong> Ford Field, Detroit, Mich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kickoff:<\/strong> Nov. 26, 12:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n\n\n\n Broadcast:<\/strong> CBS<\/p>\n\n\n\n THE HISTORY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The short of the history between these two teams is exactly that; short. They\u2019ve played all of four times and the Texans lead the \u201cseries\u201d 3-1. Their first match up was in Sept. 2004, Houston\u2019s second year in the league. That also would mark the Detroit\u2019s lone victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The last time they hooked up was in Oct. 2016 with the Texans claiming a 20-13 win at home. Brock Osweiler was under center for Houston and threw for 186 yards, a touchdown and a pick. Matthew Stafford QBed the Lions and he was good for 240 yards and a TD. There were no real stats of note in the game as, even on defense, no player recorded more than a single sack and there were a total of three in the entire game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n HOUSTON<\/strong> TEXANS (3-7)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We can pretend this was a season of promise for the Texans who, in spite of Bill O\u2019Brien\u2019s horrid general management, still had a playoff caliber roster. But since O\u2019Brien was also the head coach, they did not have a playoff head coach. Worse than that, they didn\u2019t have a competent coach on the entire staff. Which is why they\u2019re heading for a Top 10 draft pick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Houston did get a big win Sunday, beating the New England Patriots 27-20. Deshaun Watson was his superstar self, which really should make this an enticing job to a competent head coach prospect as he completed 28 of 37 passing for 344 yards and two touchdowns and rushed for another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n DETROIT<\/strong> LIONS (4-6)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If there was preseason hope for the Texans, there was absolutely none for Detroit after team ownership decided to stick with Matt Patricia as head coach instead of driving him upstate to live on a farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They roll into this one off a humiliating 20-0 loss to the Carolina Panthers who were starting their back up quarterback P.J. Walker, who last took a snap in the defunct XFL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stafford was 18 of 33 for 178 in the game that all but waved the white flag on Detroit\u2019s season and Patricia\u2019s head coaching career. If he makes it to Christmas, it\u2019ll just because the Ford family doesn\u2019t fire guys before the final game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n THE PICK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Talent wise, there\u2019s no comparison between these two teams. Coaching-wise, there\u2019s plenty, but none of it\u2019s good or worth writing about. Stafford is a still a good QB (who should sue Detroit for the head coaches with whom they keep sticking him) but it won\u2019t be enough. Texans 31, Lions 16<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow our BetOnline Twitter accoun<\/a>t for the latest sports news and betting odds, and stay tuned on the Instagram feed<\/a> for more good information too.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BY ADAM GREENE You know, if there was ever a time for the NFL to step up and deliver a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":14529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14530,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14526\/revisions\/14530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}