{"id":19154,"date":"2011-11-07T09:43:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T14:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=19154"},"modified":"2011-11-07T09:43:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T14:43:28","slug":"nfl-week-9-predictions-chicago-bears-vs-philadelphia-eagles-monday-night-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-week-9-predictions-chicago-bears-vs-philadelphia-eagles-monday-night-football-19154\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 9 Predictions: Chicago Bears vs. Philadelphia Eagles, Monday Night Football"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago Bears at Philadelphia Eagles
\nMonday, 11\/7\/11, 8:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Philadelphia -7
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Philadelphia -8
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 47
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 47
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Philadelphia Eagles have covered four consecutive games when playing on Monday Night Football<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chicago is fighting for a Wild Card spot at this point with the Green Bay Packers being the only undefeated team in the league with an 8-0 record.\u00a0 The Bears will be coming off their bye week and picked up victories in their last two games, including a 24-18 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as 1.5-point neutral-site favorites in London.\u00a0 After dropping the statistical battle in four consecutive games, Chicago has out-gained its last two opponents.\u00a0 Much of the preparation this week has been focused on stopping Philadelphia quarterback Michael Vick, a player the team has beaten in all three games he has started against them.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve sort of contained him,\u201d commented Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher.\u00a0 Chicago is 3-1 ATS on Monday Night Football, but dropped a 24-13 decision against the Detroit Lions earlier this year during the prime-time event.<\/p>\n

The Bears are certainly led offensively by running back Matt Forte, coming in with an NFL-high 1,091 yards from scrimmage, including a 145-yard performance against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.\u00a0 Chicago will definitely come in with confidence knowing it has won three of the last four meetings, but each of those were decided by five points or less.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia also comes in with a two-game win streak that includes a dominating 34-7 win over the Dallas Cowboys as three-point home favorites on NBC\u2019s Sunday Night Football.\u00a0 The Eagles moved their record to 13-0 under Andy Reid when coming off a bye and didn\u2019t turn the ball over for the first time in 2011.\u00a0 \u201cWe still have a lot of work to do,\u201d commented Vick this week in practice.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve got game two next week.\u00a0 The start of our new season.\u201d\u00a0 Philadelphia is 1-5 ATS versus NFC North opponents, while the \u2018under\u2019 is 4-2 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Eagles possess one of the stronger running games in the league, as LeSean McCoy is coming off a career-high performance.\u00a0 The former Pittsburgh Panthers\u2019 star gained 185 yards and two touchdowns when carrying the ball 30 times against the Cowboys.\u00a0 Philadelphia knows it must block Chicago defensive end Julius Peppers to have success on the offensive end tonight, especially considering that Dallas pass rusher DeMarcus Ware finished with four sacks last week.\u00a0 Offensive tackle Jason Peters will need to rise to the occasion.\u00a0 On the defensive end, the new-look secondary will be aiming for a better showing against Bears signal-caller Jay Cutler, who threw for four touchdowns and a 146.2 passer rating in last year\u2019s 31-26 win as three-point home underdogs.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Eagles due to their 4-0 ATS mark on Monday Night Football, while the Bears are 7-20 ATS as an underdog of 3.5 to 10 points.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the NFL handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chicago Bears at Philadelphia Eagles Monday, 11\/7\/11, 8:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Philadelphia -7 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Philadelphia -8 Opening Total:\u00a0 47 Current Total:\u00a0 47 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Chicago is fighting for a Wild Card spot at this point with the Green Bay Packers being the only undefeated team in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[359,763,5425,425,685,441,344],"class_list":["post-19154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-chicago-bears","tag-jay-cutler","tag-lesean-mccoy","tag-matt-forte","tag-michael-vick","tag-monday-night-football","tag-philadelphia-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19154","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=19154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19155,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19154\/revisions\/19155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}