As one of the better matchups of the primetime games this season, the undefeated Philadelphia Eagles take on the AFC South’s Houston Texans, as the Eagles are the biggest betting favorite in Thursday night history at -14. Yesterday I previewed this matchup and what each team‘s biggest X factor will be to winning this game. Let’s go through the game to finish it off with how close my prediction was.
In the first half Philadelphia’s first two scores were run plays with running backs, Miles Sanders and Kenneth Gainwell, but the Texans showed poise, throwing for a touchdown in the first quarter, and looking really good throughout the first half as a whole. With the Eagles turning the ball over with a crucial Jalen Hurts fumble. It gave Houston away back into this game and gave them a shot to score again in the second quarter. With this explosive Eagles offense this Philadelphia team is getting the majority of their yards on chunk plays throwing to receivers.
Going into the second half with a tie ball game at 14-14 the Philadelphia eagles out scored the Houston Texans 15-3 in the second half and won the game 29-17, with one of the biggest questions going into this game was if the Eagles can close in the second half they sure look like they could last night, the Eagles have been one of the most struggling teams in the second half of games this season and last night proved that they can close out a game.
With quarterback play being the biggest differences last night, Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen hurts had a nice game with two touchdown passes and a good sprinkle of rushing yards {23}, for the Texans quarterback Davis Mills had a rough game with two second half interceptions that really cost them the game, Davis Mills started out the first half on fire throwing for two touchdowns but the second half, credit to the Eagles as they made some great adjustments and forced Davis Mills into some bad throws.
Overall my prediction was close to the reasoning of I thought Houston had to keep it a low scoring game and run the ball effectively as they did with Damien Pierce, but the Eagles had too much fire power on both sides of the ball for the Texans to overcome that. Eagles improve to 8-0 as the Texans fall to 1-7-1.
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