Yahoo Sports fantasy analyst Matt Harmon and NFL analyst Nate Tice preview Halloween night’s thrillfest between Houston and New York that might put plenty of scare into fantasy managers. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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We got Thursday night football, we got Halloween, Thursday night football, Texans at Jets.
Jets are 1.5 point favorites and, uh they got a 42 point total on this game.
But let’s talk Texans side of things here coming off a game where CJ Stroud got harassed by a Colts defense that I’m not that high on this Jets defense is not played up to the Bill this year.
But is this a get right spot potentially for New York’s defense or can the, the Texans find some matchups here to get going on this Jets defense?
Oh, man, TBD.
It’s not like, uh the Texans have shown me stuff where I’m like, yeah.
Yeah, man, they’re gonna do some cool stuff here against this.
Really?
What has been historically decent against the Jets is because it’s a legion of Boom Disciple way down the tree is a running backs and tight ends receiving, uh because of just how they play stuff that can happen over the middle.
So like, really like Dalton Schultz is the guy I’m looking, the problem is, is his overruns at 43.5.
So that’s kind of you know, I was hoping to maybe in the mid thirties or somewhere around that.
What about catches though?
4/4 and a half catches plus 130.
I like that more than I would like yards.
So that would be my first one I would start with is Dalton Schultz for the Texans that I’m looking at and I’m going with an old, a favorite, going with a guy that never scrambles unless he has to.
But I’m going against his defense that I think is gonna make him have to scramble and I think that’s what he’s gonna be ticked off and being more aggressive with his legs.
CJ.
Stroud over 8.5 rushing yards.
Let’s do it one go to rush for a first down.
That’s all we need to hit this one.
I think he’s gonna have to scramble once or twice more than he wants to because of just necessity.
So I think this is the type of situation where he might use his legs.
Let’s talk jet side of things here.
God almighty.
I’m going sicko running back over receiving.
All right.
This is a Bruce Hall catch one.
It’s, uh, shoot the under 4.5 is minus 160.
I was going to go over on a 4.5, catches one if they have to that like I can just see Rogers, you know, get space when they zone on 1st and 2nd down.
And so I could see them getting, using Breece Hall’s like, receiving ability to kind of create some space early downs and late downs.
Really?
Yeah.
Breece Hall 4.5 catches the over is plus 125.
So that’s, if you’re feeling sick on it.
I know if that was 3.5, I’d feel even better obviously.
But, uh, you know, so, like those are what I’m looking at.
The other one is like Braylan Allen over 20 a half rushing yards.
So the backup running back for the Jets who has a lot of talent, they like getting him touches, could see him getting those 6 to 8 touches, 6 to 8 carries.
You know, if they’re going to be a little bit more run heavy, that’s a way you can get after this Texans team, but this one is just a weird slate with injuries short week teams figuring out their identities.
The, the best unit is the Texans defense, which has injuries.
So it’s, uh, you know, that, but of the four units, that’s the best unit, but then it’s not like an offense I can set my clock to and go, well, they’re going to do this because they’re both offenses are trying to figure out what they are.