NFL Playoffs: Bengals vs Texans Wild Card Betting

The Houston Texans would love to forget about their last month and focus on the task in hand, and that’s beating the Cincinnati Bengals to advance to the divisional playoffs.  Bengals and Texans meet on Saturday at 4:30 PM ET at Reliant stadium.
Last year the Bengals’ season ended here with a 31-10 loss to Houston, but TJ Yates was the one leading the Texans’ offense. Andy Dalton threw 3 interceptions in the defeat.

“Personally, I’m a lot more confident,” said Dalton. “I’ve experienced it. I know the atmosphere I’m going in to. This team as a whole has gotten better from the experience we have now.”

“That was last year, and this is this year,” he said. “I have things to focus on this year. It was a great play, a huge moment in my life, but I’m looking forward to making bigger moments this year.”

The Texans have lost three of the last four losing the possibility to clinch the number one seed in the AFC; they know they need to bounce back.

“We didn’t handle the end of the season the way we wanted to handle it, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t handle these playoffs the way we want to handle it,” coach Gary Kubiak said. “We understand how we have to play.”.

The Texans are 7-0 this season when Arian Foster runs over 100 yards. That might be the key of this game. “It really starts with the Texans run game,” Cincinnati defensive back Leon Hall said. “That opens up their playbook. It sets up a lot of the play-action passes that they have.”

The Texans are 4.5 favorites in the NFL Odds.