Houston vs. Minnesota Matchup Preview: Odds and Insights

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00:00I mean, how about this one? Houston going to Minnesota this week. If I, if I asked you

00:08what the look ahead line was probably back in June, you would say, Oh, Minnesota's probably

00:12probably getting six, seven points in this game. No Houston minus two and a half on the

00:17road total 45 and a half. And, and I think we're probably down the same road here again.

00:23A lot of people, Oh my gosh, how is Houston only a two and a half point favorite? Well,

00:26there's a, there's a good possibility, Matt, that Minnesota wins the game this week. Uh,

00:31but I mean, you can go ahead and flip the coin. I mean, who do you, what do you like

00:34in this game? You like anything? Yeah, I mean, it's funny because it felt like Sunday night

00:39Houston was really dominating that game and it was a one position game at the very end.

00:45And you know, Minnesota, obviously no one expected them to win last week or not. Many

00:49did. They were at home, but nonetheless, even without Christian McCaffrey, I think people

00:53thought the 49ers would handle them. And, uh, you know, the, you look at it, Minnesota

00:58should won by a lot more. They had some turnovers in their own red zone that cost them points.

01:03So yeah. What do you do with this game? I mean, I like Houston. I'm sort of that. Okay.

01:09We're going to start to see the cream rise and things are going to start evening out.

01:12And I just don't, I mean, Sam Darnold has a body of work, right? That's what I always

01:17go back to. At the end of the day, I'm looking at quarterbacks and the body of work. And

01:21I understand, Hey, no, he's in a great system and he's got Justin Jefferson and this, this

01:26and that, but I just have a hard time believing his sustained level of play is, is going to

01:30stay as high as it has. So I think I like Houston there, but yeah, it's dangerous. I'm

01:36rolling the dice. I don't know. Houston's coming off a primetime game. It's not necessarily

01:40a short week, but nonetheless, I think teams always get up more for a primetime game and

01:46now they're rolling into a place like Minnesota. And I think it's going to be a tough one.