Chargers vs. Texans Wild Card Game Prediction & Insights

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00:00All right.

00:01First game, Saturday, 4.30 p.m. East, a tradition unlike any other.

00:06The Houston Texans playing the first game on Saturday in wild-card weekend, minus two

00:14and a half.

00:15Chargers rode favorites with the 43 and a half total between these two.

00:21The Chargers, of course, there was talk, Joe, they weren't going to play yesterday, but

00:25then when the Steelers lost on Saturday night and they said, we can go to Houston instead

00:30of Baltimore, they decided to play, and Herbert had a really big day.

00:34Will he have a big day in Houston on Saturday, though?

00:38Yeah, no.

00:40I do think that this is going to be Justin, Herbert, and Harbaugh's coming-out party together,

00:50one in which you will watch Harbaugh own the ground and own the time of possession

00:56in this game, and the defense will figure out a way to make sure that C.J. Stroud doesn't

01:04do a heck of a lot right.

01:05I don't trust the offense of Houston.

01:08I do trust, and I don't consider them to be a great team by any stretch, and we've already

01:14seen the Chargers this year hold 13 of their 17 opponents to 20 points or fewer.

01:21If they do that again here, and most of those were not great teams like Houston, I think

01:27they're going to have a hard time scoring, and I think the Chargers and Harbaugh are

01:32going to shorten the game, and they're just going to not give Houston enough opportunities

01:38to do anything crazy on offense and beat them here.

01:42To me, this has got a 2013 feel to it all day long.

01:46I'm all over the under in this one.

01:48I love the under, Joe.

01:51That was the first thing that kind of stuck out to me when I looked at this game was seeing

01:56that number.

01:57Now, look.

01:58I like the Chargers.

01:59I'm with you.

02:00I think it's a game that ... I think the Chargers are better than them, and the Texan offense

02:06is extremely concerning to me against the Charger D. I think that they're going to have ... They've

02:11had a hard time scoring against some bad teams over the last, really, half of the season.

02:17If you want to take it back all year, you can find stretches where the Houston Texan

02:21offense ... I remember, Joe, they had a stretch where they didn't score a touchdown in the

02:25second half for like six or seven weeks.

02:27They have had some real ugly stretches of offensive play, but I don't think the Charger

02:33offense will blow them away either, so I'm with you.

02:36I think we're in the same zone here, 20-13, something like that, 20-16.

02:43I think under that 43.5, that's where I'm living, at least here early in the week on

02:49a Monday.