{"id":72353,"date":"2025-12-02T02:55:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/72353\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T02:55:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:55:17","slug":"can-the-texans-close-the-gap-and-win-the-afc-south-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/72353\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the Texans close the gap and win the AFC South? \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Texans <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/texans\/article\/houston-indianapolis-colts-week-13-updates-21214066.php\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">edged out the division rival Colts<\/a> in Indianapolis Sunday 20-16 to move within a game of the lead in the AFC South Division. Texans quarterback CJ Stroud was back after missing several games due to a concussion.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>In the audio and video above, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jeffbalke\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jeff Balke<\/a>, co-host of the Bleav in Astros podcast, discusses how the Texans nailed down the win, what&#8217;s been working for them lately, and what their chances are of making it to the playoffs with five games left in the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Texans edged out the division rival Colts in Indianapolis Sunday 20-16 to move within a game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[300,56,58,4978,57,79,5514,66,223,80,4979,154,4842],"class_list":["post-72353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-football","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-matters","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-texans","tag-jeff-balke","tag-local","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-shows","tag-sports","tag-texans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72353","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=72353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}