{"id":20362,"date":"2011-12-18T10:30:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T15:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=20362"},"modified":"2011-12-18T10:30:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T15:30:21","slug":"nfl-picks-week-15-seattle-seahawks-vs-chicago-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-picks-week-15-seattle-seahawks-vs-chicago-bears-20362\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Picks Week 15: Seattle Seahawks vs. Chicago Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seattle Seahawks at Chicago Bears
\nSunday, 12\/18\/11, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FOX
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Chicago -4
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Chicago -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 35.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 35
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Falcons<\/a>
The Chicago Bears are still in the playoff race despite dropping three games in a row<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Seattle has been playing great football in winning four of five games and comes off a 30-13 win over the St. Louis Rams as nine-point home favorites.\u00a0 The Seahawks have also gone \u2018over\u2019 the total in three consecutive contests.\u00a0 \u201cWe have some young talent,\u201d commented Seahawks quarterback Tarvaris Jackson.\u00a0 \u201cWe have guys that are buying into what our coaches are telling us.\u201d\u00a0 He will be under center after being a full participant in practice on Thursday and Friday.\u00a0 Seattle is 8-4 ATS this year and 2-4 ATS against NFC North opponents the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Seahawks and Bears are playing for the third consecutive season and seventh time in the past six years.\u00a0 Seattle will be looking to gain revenge in getting knocked out of the playoffs last year by Chicago.\u00a0 Running back Marshawn Lynch has gained a league-high 706 rushing yards over the past six games.\u00a0 The former California Golden Bears star needs just 31 yards from his third 1,000-yard season.\u00a0 On the other side of the ball, Seattle ranks 11th in the league in allowing just 104.3 rushing yards per game.<\/p>\n

Chicago has lost three straight games at the absolute worst time and many experts around the league believe the team\u2019s chances of making the playoffs has vanished.\u00a0 The Bears are coming off a heartbreaking 13-10 overtime loss to the Denver Broncos, which could be hard to get over Sunday.\u00a0 \u201cDefinitely one of the toughest ones I\u2019ve had to deal with, we\u2019ve had to deal with,\u201d commented Bears head coach Lovie Smith.\u00a0 He will look to rally the locker room being one-game back of the Detroit Lions for the second and final NFC wild card berth.\u00a0 Chicago is 3-6 ATS in December the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Bears will be piloted by backup quarterback Caleb Hanie, who will be making his fourth straight start in place of the injured Jay Cutler.\u00a0 Chicago will also be handing the ball off to Marion Barber due to star player Matt Forte still being out with a knee injury.\u00a0 The offense will be facing a defense that ranks 13th in the league in total yards allowed.\u00a0 On the other side of the ball, the unit has allowed just one touchdown in each of the last three games.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Bears due to their 4-1 ATS mark as a favorite, while the Seahawks are 8-20-1 ATS as a road underdog.<\/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":"

Seattle Seahawks at Chicago Bears Sunday, 12\/18\/11, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FOX Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Chicago -4 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Chicago -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 35.5 Current Total:\u00a0 35 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Seattle has been playing great football in winning four of five games and comes off a 30-13 win over the St. Louis Rams […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[5826,359,6172,3403,2589,417,446],"class_list":["post-20362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-caleb-hanie","tag-chicago-bears","tag-marion-barber","tag-marshawn-lynch","tag-nfc-north","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-tarvaris-jackson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20362","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=20362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20363,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20362\/revisions\/20363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}