Texans vs. Jets Point Spread: TNF Week 9 Odds, Prediction
The Jets are priced as 1-point underdogs on the NFL odds.
Thursday Night Football Point Spread and Betting
An NFL game with Aaron Rodgers and the Jets in primetime? What a surprise. I would say this is New York’s entire season in terms of getting to the postseason for the first time since 2010. A victory gets the Jets to 3-6 with two very winnable games up next – at Arizona and vs. Indianapolis – before a Week 12 bye. It’s probably already too late and a rebuild could be coming next season with Rodgers set to turn 41 in December.
Houston is going to the playoffs for the second year in a row after winning the 2023 AFC South title barring rising superstar quarterback CJ Stroud getting hurt. Put him on the Jets, and they are Super Bowl contenders like the Texans. That AFC South is quite weak overall and we expect Houston to win it again, and it is a massive -2000 favorite. This does start a very tough three-game stretch, though, with Detroit visiting Houston next Sunday in a possible Super Bowl preview and then the Texans going to Dallas in Week 11.
Just 10 meetings between these franchises, all in the regular season, with the Jets leading 7-3 and having won the past two. In Week 10 last year in New Jersey, the Jets were 4-point underdogs but won 30-6 behind a rare strong NFL game from former New York QB Zach Wilson, who threw for 301 yards and two scores. Wilson vastly outplayed Stroud, who threw for only 91 yards and left late with a possible concussion.
New York is 7-1-2 ATS in the past 10 meetings.
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Houston Texans
Houston all but clinched repeating in the AFC South on Sunday with a 23-20 home win over second-place Indianapolis to sweep the season series, meaning the Texans’ lead is really three games not two. Barring QB CJ Stroud getting injured, they will win the South again. Stroud threw for 285 yards and a score Sunday, while Joe Mixon ran for 102 yards and a touchdown. He became the first player in NFL history to have at least 100 yards rushing and a TD run in four of his first five games with a team. Stroud improved to 11-4 in his career in games decided by a single possession and has won seven of his past eight in such. Stroud was again without top wideout Nico Collins, who injured his hamstring in Week 5 and is on IR. He will not return for this one. Fellow Pro Bowl WR Stefon Diggs left with a non-contact knee injury in the third quarter and didn’t return, so that needs to be monitored. The under is 6-1 in Houston’s past seven games.
New York Jets
The Jets every week seem to do something to capitulate to Aaron Rodgers, and it doesn’t matter at all. Rock bottom for this team arrived Sunday in its fifth straight loss, 25-22 at a bad New England team. Rhamondre Stevenson punched it in on fourth-and-goal with 22 seconds left for the winning score. The Jets became the first team since 2012 to lose with zero giveaways and less than 250 yards allowed. It didn’t help matters that New York’s Greg Zuerlein missed two kicks. He has done that all season, so I’d be surprised if he’s still on the roster Thursday. Rodgers was OK on Sunday, throwing for 233 yards and two scores. His five-start losing streak ties a career high. New York has now lost two games as at least a 7-point favourite this season, as many as they did in the previous 20 seasons combined. The Jets are 2-6 despite being favored by an average of 2.6 points in their games.
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