{"id":125734,"date":"2026-01-16T13:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/125734\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T13:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:39:07","slug":"houston-texans-vs-new-england-patriots-divisional-round-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/125734\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Texans vs New England Patriots Divisional Round Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Am I picking the Texans to lose again? Yes. Am I a home town hater? At this point, maybe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">After C.J. Stroud\u2019s woeful performance and Nico Collins\u2019 concussion, I\u2019m concerned the Texans won\u2019t be able to effectively move the ball on offense. Against the Steelers, Houston\u2019s run game went off for over 160 yards on and will need to reproduce that production again to win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">On defense, the Texans will face the best opposing offense in weeks. Stefon Diggs vs. Derek Stingley Jr. will be a helluva matchup. The Pats have two healthy RBs and a stout rushing attack. The key battle will be their offensive line against our pass rushers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Plus, this whole Darrell Taylor situation is getting under my skin. He\u2019s going to show them the whole playbook and reveal our faults. The level of scorn he feels must be powerful to \u2018switch sides\u2019 mid-playoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Am I picking the Texans to lose again? Yes. Am I a home town hater? At this point,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[50711,56,58,57,23714,40884],"class_list":{"0":"post-125734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-groupthink","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-houston-texans-analysis","13":"tag-houston-texans-playoffs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}