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INDIANAPOLIS (2-3) at HOUSTON (3-2)Sunday, 8:30 p.m. EDT, NBCOPENING LINE -- Texans by 3RECORD VS. SPREAD -- Indianapolis 2-3, Houston 3-2SERIES RECORD -- Colts lead 23-5LAST MEETING -- Texans beat Colts 16-10, Dec. 20, 2015LAST WEEK -- Colts beat Bears 29-23; Texans lost to Vikings 31-13AP PRO32 RANKING -- Colts No. 22, Texans No. 15COLTS OFFENSE -- OVERALL (14), RUSH (22), PASS (9).COLTS DEFENSE -- OVERALL (30), RUSH (18), PASS (28).TEXANS OFFENSE -- OVERALL (27), RUSH (15), PASS (29).TEXANS DEFENSE -- OVERALL (5), RUSH (25), PASS (1).STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES -- Indianapolis QB Andrew Luck has won 14 of past 15 starts vs. AFC South. Luck threw for 370 yards and three TDs in last game against Houston. ... RB Frank Gore had 98 yards rushing and TD in last game against Houston. He is ninth on all-time list with 12,368 career yards rushing. ... WR T.Y. Hilton had career-high 223 yards receiving against Houston on Oct. 9, 2014. Hilton had 10 catches for 171 yards and TD last week. ... LB Erik Walden has three sacks and has forced two fumbles combined in last three games. ... LB Robert Mathis ranks fourth among active players with 118 career sacks. He doesnt have any this season. ... S Mike Adams has two interceptions, one forced fumble and fumble recovery combined in past two games against Texans. ... Houston QB Brock Osweiler has thrown six touchdowns with seven interceptions this season. He is 3-0 at home. ... WR DeAndre Hopkins has 19 catches for 263 yards in last two games combined vs. Indianapolis. ... WR Jaelen Strong has three TDs in two career games vs. Colts. ... LB Whitney Mercilus has seven sacks in past six games. ... LB Benardrick McKinney leads team with 48 tackles. ... DE Jadeveon Clowney had career-high four tackles for losses last week and leads team with eight tackles for losses. ... Fantasy Tip: Houston WR Will Fuller leads all rookies with 327 yards receiving and could be good pickup after tough game last week when he was held to season-low one reception for 4 yards.(Eds: Corrects Tennessee to Indianapolis)---AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and http://twitter.com/AP-NFL Rafael Camacho Jersey . Thats about all he can do right now, so hes trying not to think about when he might be able to play again for the Los Angeles Lakers. Curtis Jones Jersey .2 billion agreement with Rogers Communications for the leagues broadcast and multimedia rights. http://www.footballliverpoolstore.com/Women-Mohamed-Salah-Liverpool-Jersey/ . The players spoke Jan. 13 during a Major League Baseball Players Association conference call after Rodriguez sued the union and Major League Baseball to overturn an arbitrators decision suspending him for the 2014 season and post-season. Naby Keita Jersey . Perhaps Carroll was so prepared for a break because he believes there is very little the Seattle Seahawks need heading into the off-season. "I dont see anything that we need to add. We just have to get better," Carroll said. Nathaniel Clyne Jersey . Wall made the comment in a speech to a Regina business crowd that included Lesnar. The U.S. wrestler and retired mixed martial artist says he was visiting his brothers farm in Saskatchewan and decided he wanted to hear what the premier had to say. He ate grass, for heavens sake. He ate grass, and we laughed.We came to love his idiosyncrasies, from that toddler clap to his play-calling guts to -- thanks, George and Ira Gershwin -- the way he wore his hat.No, they cant take that away from us. We loved it all because Les Miles could wink at us and keep winning. He came into LSU and produced a level of success never achieved by any of his 29 predecessors in Baton Rouge, and somehow, thats not enough.It is not something that Walter Camp decreed when he came up with the line of scrimmage and the center snap. It is not written in the 216 pages of the 2016 and 2017 NCAA Football Rules and Interpretations. Only in the state of Louisiana is it carved into stone tablets and handed down from on high that LSU must win 10 games a season.No, check that. Miles won 114 games in 11? seasons and hes down at the Baton Rouge U-Haul buying boxes.On the very weekend that Miami, under new head coach Mark Richt, rose to No. 14 as Georgia, which fired Richt after he averaged a 10-3 record for 15 seasons, got humiliated at Ole Miss and fell out of the polls, LSU fired Miles so that it could hire someone more successful.Miles had a record of 114-34 (.770) with the Tigers. If youre looking for context of how good that is, consider that a career record of .600 makes a coach eligible for the College Football Hall of Fame. Consider that its better than the record of his predecessor, Nick Saban (48-16, .750). Or just consider this: Miles began this season as one of five active head coaches who had won a national championship.And then there were four, which include Saban, Urban Meyer of Ohio State and Jimbo Fisher of Florida State. Bob Stoops of 1-2 Oklahoma? Youre on the clock.On the very weekend that Tennessee extracted itself from the eight-year sinkhole it fell into after firing Phillip Fulmer, LSU decided that five losses in nine games is untenable. Think about that for just a minute, Tigers fans.Fulmer went 5-7 in 2008, one year after his ninth 10-win season in Knoxville, and Tennessee fired him. In 91 games since Tennessee fired Fulmer, the Vols are 48-43. That includes being 4-0 as we speak, after those 38 consecutive points against Florida that exorcised every ghost of the Derek Dooley era and the Lane Kiffin year.There is no guarantee that firing someone as successful as Miles will result in a better program. Its just as possible that LSU wont be able to hire a coach as successful as Miles. Theres a long list of schools that got rid of someone who was winning and got worse.Nebraska has gone 19 years since its national championship. More to this point, it has gone 17 years without a conference championship.Michigan, whichh has won more football games than any program anywhere, hasnt won the Big Ten championship in 12 years.ddddddddddddSyracuse fired Paul Pasqualoni in 2004 after he had one losing record in 14 seasons. The Orange have had nine losing seasons since.That could neevvvvver happen at LSU. Ask head coaches about the best jobs in America, and the head-coaching job at LSU is second only to the guy who signs the Powerball checks. LSU is the only Power 5 school in a talent-rich state. Miles built upon Sabans strategy of laying a foundation at home. For more than a decade, it has taken a court order and a crowbar to convince a five-star Louisiana recruit to cross state lines. The state has served Miles well. Its the vice versa that LSU doesnt remember.When did the state of Louisiana fall in love with Saban? Not when he won the national championship in 2003. No, it was two years earlier, when Saban brought home the SEC title, the Tigers first since 1988. Trust me, no one is making documentaries about LSU football in the 1990s.If you dig at the root of this issue, thats who you will find: Saban, the man who broke Tiger hearts when he landed at Alabama only two years after leaving LSU. Miles has matched the one national championship and two SEC championships that Saban won in Baton Rouge. But since Saban arrived in Tuscaloosa, he has won four national championships and four SEC championships.No matter how much Miles won in Death Valley, LSU fans still looked over their shoulder at Saban. Wherever Miles took the Tigers, he would have to go through Saban once a year to get there. And through the 2011 regular season, Miles gave as good as he got. When LSU won that 9-6 overtime fistfight that season, Miles held a 3-2 edge on Saban.But Alabama embarrassed LSU 21-0 in the BCS National Championship rematch two months later, and something seemed to shift. Sabans teams beat Miles teams the next four seasons, twice by double figures, twice by late-game scores. You decide which hurt the most.The LSU offense is stuck these days, and Miles has been too slow to fix it. Anyone who can read game scores can understand that. Miles had the chance to kick offensive coordinator Cam Cameron to the curb after last season and he didnt do it. When the offense continued to sputter this season, Cameron got kicked to the curb, all right. Where he landed on Miles.My guess is Miles would have fixed it by the end of this season, if not before. No one at LSU wanted to wait. Instead, dont be surprised if Tigers fans wait a long time to return to where Miles had taken them. ' ' ' |
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