{"id":515,"date":"2013-01-13T12:58:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T17:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigredsportsmachine.com\/?p=515"},"modified":"2013-01-13T12:58:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T17:58:25","slug":"afc-divisional-round-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"AFC Divisional Round, Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Houston Texans at New England Patriots (-9.5)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No reason to get fancy with this analysis; two-hundred words should be more than enough.\u00a0 At its simplest\u00a0form, this game boils down\u00a0Schaub-Kubiak\u00a0versus Brady-Belichick.\u00a0 I know which side of that equation I&#8217;m going to lay my money.<\/p>\n<p>The Texans lost 3 of their last 4 games to limp into the playoffs.\u00a0 They continued their uninspired limp by escaping the first round with a dreadful performance against the Bengals.\u00a0 Andy Dalton, ginger powers and all, may have played himself out of a starting job with an embarrassing\u00a0performance against the Texans.\u00a0 He left play after play on the field, including a wide open AJ Green streaking up the seam late in the game; a play\u00a0that would have drastically changed the course of game.\u00a0 Andy Dalton missed the throw.\u00a0 Tom Brady won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>This game figures to play out exactly like their Week 14 match-up; a 42-14\u00a0beat-down\u00a0of the Texans.\u00a0 The Patriots front seven will contain Arian Foster (15 carries, 46 yards in that game) and force Matt Schaub\u00a0into beating them.\u00a0 The Patriots offense will keep the pedal to the metal the entire game, forcing the Texans into a shoot-out.<\/p>\n<p>Patriots\u00a0cruise for a rematch of last years AFC Championship.<\/p>\n<p>NE 38, Houston 17<\/p>\n<p>(Word Count: 210) NAILED IT!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Texans at New England Patriots (-9.5) No reason to get fancy with this analysis; two-hundred words should be more than enough.\u00a0 At its simplest\u00a0form, this game boils down\u00a0Schaub-Kubiak\u00a0versus Brady-Belichick.\u00a0 I know which side of that equation I&#8217;m going to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/?p=515\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Bp3y-8j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}