NFL Picks Week 9: Forecasting Most Pivotal Inter-Divisional Matchups

November 2, 2013   ·   Joseph Zucker   ·   Jump to comments

Now's the time the division battles in the NFL become interesting.
Early in the first half of the season, you don't want to read too much into the results, because there's still a lot of time for things to change. Closer toward the end of the season, most of the divisions could already be wrapped up, leaving the wild-card places up for grabs.
Now, though, teams are in between those stages. They've had enough games to get the narrative of the season started, but there's also the entire second half of the season to catch up to the division leaders.
These three games could either distance the division leaders from the competition or make the races more interesting.
 
Houston Texas vs. Indianapolis Colts
The Houston Texans offense will be much better off with Case Keenum under center, as crazy as that sounds. Matt Schaub is the human interception, and you're not getting much more with T.J. Yates.
It still won't be enough to get past the Indianapolis ...

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