{"id":30462,"date":"2013-10-04T16:08:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T21:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=30462"},"modified":"2013-10-04T16:08:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T21:08:53","slug":"nfl-week-5-picks-new-orleans-saints-vs-chicago-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-week-5-picks-new-orleans-saints-vs-chicago-bears-30462\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 5 Picks: New Orleans Saints vs. Chicago Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Orleans Saints vs. Chicago Bears
\nSunday, 10\/6\/13, 1:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Chicago PK
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Chicago PK
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 47
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 48.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Bears<\/a>
The Chicago Bears need QB Jay Cutler to take care of the football<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New Orleans is traveling to Chicago a day early this week, as it looks to win its fifth consecutive game to open the 2013 NFL campaign, including a 38-17 blowout victory over the Miami Dolphins as seven-point home favorites in Week 4.\u00a0 The Saints are certainly feeling good about themselves due to the return of head coach Sean Payton, as they were winless at this point of the season in 2012.\u00a0 New Orleans is 4-2 SU and 5-1 ATS against NFC North division opponents the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 4-2 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Saints have one of the more explosive offenses in the league, with wide receiver Marques Colston being one of the main weapons, as he\u2019s caught 21 passes for 298 yards this season.\u00a0 New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees threw for 413 yards and four touchdowns against the Dolphins, while he\u2019s managed to complete 66.9 percent of his passes.\u00a0 Just to put Payton\u2019s return in perspective, Brees connected on just 57.6 percent of his passes in the first four games a year ago.<\/p>\n

Chicago had its season-opening three-game win streak snapped last time out, as it suffered a 40-32 setback to the Detroit Lions as three-point road underdogs last Sunday.\u00a0 The Bears have gone OVER the betting total in all four of their contests, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the pro football odds page.\u00a0 Defensively, the team faces a major challenge in this week\u2019s opponent, as the Saints average 27 points and 419.5 yards per game.\u00a0 Chicago is 4-10 SU and 4-9-1 ATS as an underdog over the last two-plus seasons, with no clear edge in the betting total (7-7 Over\/Under).<\/p>\n

The Bears are 4-0 when facing Brees, which is important to consider when making your NFL betting picks Sunday, as he\u2019s thrown for 955 yards with seven touchdowns and six interceptions.\u00a0 Chicago needs signal-caller Jay Cutler to regain his confidence, as he\u2019s completing a career-high 64.2 percent of his passes, but has also turned the football over eight times.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Bears due to the home team being 4-0-2 ATS in the last six meetings in this series.<\/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":"

New Orleans Saints vs. Chicago Bears Sunday, 10\/6\/13, 1:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Chicago PK Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Chicago PK Opening Total:\u00a0 47 Current Total:\u00a0 48.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker New Orleans is traveling to Chicago a day early this week, as it looks to win its fifth consecutive game to open the 2013 […]<\/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":[359,1034,763,427,31,3570],"class_list":["post-30462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-chicago-bears","tag-drew-brees","tag-jay-cutler","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-nfl","tag-sean-payton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30462","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=30462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30463,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30462\/revisions\/30463"}],"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=30462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}