After their dismal performances last season, the Jacksonville Jaguars and Houston Texans are looking to rebound in 2011-2012, and they will get together each other on the field in Week 8 of the NFL season. Both teams were simply awful on defense a year ago, with the Texans 29th in points allowed and the Jaguars 27th. Both teams, again, are making a large amount of progress on the defensive end from the first 7 weeks of this season.

The Jaguars, though, have numerous problems on offense this year. They may be dead last in the league in total yards, rushing TDs, first downs, and passing yards. The crew is also closing in on last place in several other areas, notably passing TDs and points scored. Their performance to date this season has been disappointing, understandably, and there is really no reason at all one can anticipate them to do any better this week versus the Texans.

Does the Houston defense even need to do anything to stop the Jags’ offense? Whilst the Jaguars do a great job of failing at every offensive play, the Houstons still want to stop Jones-Drew and force them into long plays on 2nd and 3rd downs. And on the offensive end, the Texans need to keep their game dynamic, throwing different types of plays at the Jags defense. Fortunately for Jacksonville, their defense continues to be improved enough to give the Texans some trouble.

Both teams have had a tricky early schedule so far, but do not count the Jaguars out just yet. Although the Texans are the slightly better team in this match-up, the Jags can hang around and keep games close. Jacksonville only has been completely blown away from one game so far this season – a 32-3 loss to the Jets – but have struggled to pull out more than a couple of wins. The Texans must show up strong and build up a lead if they hope to keep the Jaguars out of the game for good
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The Texans are the -9 ½ point favorites with the over-under at 40 ½ points.


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