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Sunday night to Thursday morning....I really doubt the steamroll anyone. Might be the first really ugly game the Bears have all year.
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Lions stink... it was all Golladay today. Shut him down and Bears are good to go.
Offense was good and will be on short rest IMO.
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If Codey Parkey leaves 8 points on the board the Bears will lose this game.
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This is the game which will let us know if team is ready to truly contend. Gotta beat your top division rival at home with the bright lights shining.
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Except for the fact the Bears ARE at home, thus making it a 3 point game.
A pick'em game is when neither team gets points. That is not the case here.
If it were at a neutral site, then it would be a pick'em game. But it is not.
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Our top division rival will always be the packers. But other than that I agree it will be a huge test for us. Luckily we have won 3 straight and feel really good about ourselves.
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My thinking was with Lions and Minny, Bears have to take 3 of 4. The real games that will tell us if they're ready to contend happens when they play Rams and Packers back to back.
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Nah. Minny is right behind us. Don't care about history. This season we gotta beat Minny to take division. They are a more complete team than Pack.
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I'm a little surprised Bears are 3 pt favs over the Vikings. Bears are moving up, eh? Some of the real unbiased experts are the odds makers, right?
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According to Omelet it is because a lot of people in Chicago bet on the Bears...so Vegas has to account for that by artificially inflating the point spread....
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Well of course the Vikings are more complete than the packers. They’re a one man show. And he has been shaky all year. But we could still win the division losing on Sunday but I don’t think we will lose anyways. They still have tough games with the Patriots and Seahawks. I think they lose in New England so we still have a chance.
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Is it on a neutral field?
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If booking companies are charging a service fee for every Bears game that gets bet on, then they can make some money on volume. But absent that there's no financial benefit to inflate the point spread.
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This game is huge.
I’d love to be pleasantly surprised, but I’m all but counting the Thanksgiving Lions game as a loss. Sunday noon to Thursday night is tough enough. Sunday night to Thursday morning is unbearable. The Bears won’t win that game. It’ll be like an NBA back-to-back, which teams overwhelmingly don’t win. But I’d love to be proven wrong.
That’s why this Vikings game is so huge. You win that one, you’re probably only one division game win away from playoffs.
I’d love to be pleasantly surprised, but I’m all but counting the Thanksgiving Lions game as a loss. Sunday noon to Thursday night is tough enough. Sunday night to Thursday morning is unbearable. The Bears won’t win that game. It’ll be like an NBA back-to-back, which teams overwhelmingly don’t win. But I’d love to be proven wrong.
That’s why this Vikings game is so huge. You win that one, you’re probably only one division game win away from playoffs.
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That's possible but it will still be adjusted in accordance to how the betting goes throughout the week so doesn't really matter where it starts. I also think people who haven't actually seen the Vikes play this year are overrating them. They haven't really beaten anyone and have looked bad at times. I definitely don't see them as being superior to the Bears. It's the type game you would just expect the home team to be favored.
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I agree. It would take a lot for an intra-division away team to be favored AT the first place team’s field.
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I think people take the 3 points for home thing too literally
You really think every team has the same home field advantage? You think a team like Dallas who appears to have hardly any home field advantage is the same as somewhere like Foxborough?
I mean it’s a decent tool but too many people take it in stone. Just because Chicago is a 3 point favorite doesn’t necessarily mean Vegas thinks it’s a pick em on a neutral field. There’s a lot of variables.
You really think every team has the same home field advantage? You think a team like Dallas who appears to have hardly any home field advantage is the same as somewhere like Foxborough?
I mean it’s a decent tool but too many people take it in stone. Just because Chicago is a 3 point favorite doesn’t necessarily mean Vegas thinks it’s a pick em on a neutral field. There’s a lot of variables.
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Not saying this happens with the Bears, but it does happen. Vegas is trying to just profit off the juice.
Maybe with teams like Dallas or New England the line may move because of that. Don’t really think that’s the case with the Bears though.
And besides that it’s not about which team has more bets going it’s way. It’s about the sharps putting big money on one team. If ten people put a dollar on the Bears and one guy puts $20 on the Vikings the lines gonna move based off the $20 bet not the 10 $1 bets
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Cousins has played out of his ass vs the Bears. I hope we don't have a letdown defensively.