{"id":904000,"date":"2026-09-24T17:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T17:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/904000\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T17:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T17:54:20","slug":"nfl-week-3-picks-upset-and-score-predictions-matchup-breakdowns-for-every-game-latest-nfl-news-analysis-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/904000\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 3 picks: Upset and score predictions, matchup breakdowns for every game | Latest NFL News, Analysis & Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why Gennaro picked the Texans: Is this an elimination game in September? As the only Week 3 matchup between winless teams, this AFC South showdown screams desperation. Since 1990, just 2.9 percent of squads that lost their first three games went on to make the playoffs. We\u2019re talkin\u2019 five out of 171, people. Of course, last year\u2019s Texans were one of those five. And while Houston\u2019s hyped<\/a> defense looked shockingly porous against Josh Allen<\/a>\u2019s Bills in Week 1, the unit largely stifled Joe Burrow<\/a> and the Bengals last Sunday. I anticipate continued success against a one-dimensional Colts offense. Jonathan Taylor<\/a>\u2019s a stud, no doubt, but he has to be a one-man army with Daniel Jones<\/a> still seemingly working his way back from last December\u2019s Achilles tear. Add in the fact that Indianapolis’ $114 million field stretcher<\/a> just hit injured reserve<\/a>, and Houston can commit additional resources to stopping the Colts’ bell-cow back. Meanwhile, Indy’s defense hasn\u2019t been able to stop anyone, giving up the second-most yards EVER in the first two weeks of a season:<\/p>\n

1) 2016 Raiders: 1,035 yards allowed
2) 2026 Colts: 1,029
T-3) 1967 Falcons: 1,025
T-3) 2017 Saints: 1,025<\/p>\n

Oddly enough, the two bookends on that list — the 2016 Raiders and 2017 Saints — both made the playoffs with double-digit wins. Maybe the Colts have everyone right where they want them! \u2026 Or maybe they\u2019re doomed to suffer a sixth straight loss to\u00a0C.J. Stroud<\/a> and Co.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why Gennaro picked the Texans: Is this an elimination game in September? As the only Week 3 matchup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[13449,64,63,455721,593,85],"class_list":["post-904000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-analysis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-game-picks","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}