{"id":17213,"date":"2011-08-21T19:56:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T00:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=17213"},"modified":"2011-08-21T19:56:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T00:56:17","slug":"pro-football-betting-chicago-bears-at-new-york-giants-monday-night-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/pro-football-betting-chicago-bears-at-new-york-giants-monday-night-football-17213\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Football Betting: Chicago Bears at New York Giants Monday Night Football"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago Bears at New York Giants
\nMonday, 8\/22\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 New York -4.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 New York -4.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 35
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 35.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Chicago Bears QB Jay Cutler was running for his life against the New York Giants a year ago<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chicago picked up a less-than-enthusiastic 10-3 home win over the Buffalo Bills last week as 2.5-point favorites to open up the preseason.\u00a0 Bears head coach Lovie Smith was not happy with the effort, especially from an offensive line that allowed nine sacks collectively, as four of those were surrendered by four members of the first unit.\u00a0 \u201cAgain, you get to the first game, you see where you are and you start making adjustments,\u201d Smith commented.\u00a0 Luckily for his sake, quarterback Jay Cutler was on the field for just a single series last week, but is likely to play two quarters under the bright lights of Monday Night Football.\u00a0 Chicago is 1-8 ATS when playing NFC opponents in the preseason under Smith.<\/p>\n

The Bears are also looking to build on a ground game that now includes former Dallas running back Marion Barber, as the free-agent acquisition rushed for 37 yards on six carries versus the Bills.\u00a0 Taken in the fourth-round of the 2005 NFL Draft out of Minnesota, Barber ran for 4,358 yards while in the Lone Star State.\u00a0 On the other side of the ball, Chicago is likely to play without two key players, as linebacker Lance Briggs has been ruled out and Brian Urlacher is a game-time decision.<\/p>\n

New York was handed a 20-10 road loss to the Carolina Panthers in its preseason opener as 2.5-point underdogs, being out-gained by 44 yards in the contest.\u00a0 The Giants failed to score in starting quarterback Eli Manning\u2019s five series, as he finished 4-of-9 for 36 yards.\u00a0 \u201cWe never got into a great rhythm,\u201d Manning commented.\u00a0 \u201cWe missed some opportunities in the passing game, and never really got anything down the field.\u201d\u00a0 Giants backup Sage Rosenfels had better success in connecting on 13-of-19 passes for 129 yards.\u00a0 New York is 17-25 ATS as preseason favorites.<\/p>\n

The Giants sacked Cutler nine times in their 17-3 home win during last year\u2019s regular season.\u00a0 Three of those sacks were credited to defensive end Osi Umenyiora, who is expected to miss at least 3-4 weeks after undergoing arthroscopic on his right knee.\u00a0 It\u2019s been a tumultuous offseason for Umenyiora – just weeks after holding out of camp during contract issues.\u00a0 Offensively, the offensive line has been receiving a lot of attention in practice, as a revamped unit is aiming to provide running back Ahmad Bradshaw enough room to allow him to gain over 1,000 yards for a second-straight year.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Giants due to their overwhelming edge in the trenches with their defensive line going against the Bears offensive unit.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a huge season and let the NFL handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Get in the game today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chicago Bears at New York Giants Monday, 8\/22\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 New York -4.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 New York -4.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 35 Current Total:\u00a0 35.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Chicago picked up a less-than-enthusiastic 10-3 home win over the Buffalo Bills last week as 2.5-point favorites to open up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[5341,359,598,763,5340,401,710],"class_list":["post-17213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-brian-urlacher","tag-chicago-bears","tag-eli-manning","tag-jay-cutler","tag-lance-briggs","tag-new-york-giants","tag-sage-rosenfels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17214,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17213\/revisions\/17214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}