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Texans vs Browns: Nobody Wins Big in Cleveland
WEEK 10 · SUN NOV 15 · 1:00 PM ET · FOX
Browns +5Spread · −110
−110Bet at Fanatics →02 · OUR PICK
Under 39.5Total · −105
−105BESTBet at FanDuel →Our edge: The Browns are 3-0 at home and live in one-score games, and Houston can't run the ball. I'm taking the five. Our score: Texans 21, Browns 17.
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Browns +5
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Browns +5 −110›Our estimate. Not a guarantee.Cleveland doesn't do blowouts at home
The Browns are 3-0 at home, and they beat Pittsburgh and Baltimore by three points apiece. They’ve won five of their seven one-score games. Point differential says minus-35? Sure. Both blowouts came on the road, at Jacksonville and at Pittsburgh. In this building, every game has been a coin flip that Cleveland won.
Deshaun Watson is back. ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler reported Monday that the Browns plan to start him, and before last week Watson had Cleveland at 5-3 with an NFL-high five winning drives. Ugly? Absolutely. It works.
Texans29
Browns38Houston plays close games too
The Texans have outscored people by 17 and they’re still 3-5. Four of their five losses came by six points or fewer: 36-31 to Buffalo, 19-17 at Indianapolis, 34-30 to Dallas and 27-21 to the Giants. This team doesn’t separate from anybody. When both teams live in one-score games, five points is a lot of cushion.
No run game, no blowout
Houston runs for 87.1 yards a game at 3.6 a carry, and Woody Marks leads the team with 341 rushing yards. C.J. Stroud has been great, with 16 touchdowns and two interceptions, but a one-dimensional offense on the road against a Browns defense with 26 sacks and 12 takeaways is how a favorite gets stuck at 20 points. The forecast won’t help either: a high near 46 with a northwest wind around 10 mph, per the National Weather Service.
We have Houston winning by four, so take the five points, not the upset.
Stroud gets a clean pocket. He just threw for 384 yards and five touchdowns against the Chargers. If Cleveland's pass rush doesn't get home, five points and the under both disappear by the third quarter.
+5−110Parlays
Browns +5Spread−110Under 40 ALT LINETotal points−110Browns moneylineMoneyline+190Browns Defense anytime TDPlayer prop+550The book sets the final price. Same-game legs are linked, so it is usually lower than these estimates.
Under 39.5 total points
@ JAXWk 6OVER
vs NYGWk 7OVER
@ LACWk 9OVER
@ TENWk 7OVER
@ PITWk 8✓ UNDER
@ NOWk 9OVER›Watson hasn’t thrown a touchdown pass in his last three starts. Cleveland scores 17.9 points a game, and Watson entered last week 28th of 30 qualifying quarterbacks in QBR. Our numbers land on Texans 21, Browns 17. That’s 38. Under 39.5.
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Does Stroud carve up Cleveland, or do the Browns drag him into a rock fight?
Tell me I'm wrong.
Here we go, Brownies. Woof woof.