{"id":31916,"date":"2013-12-20T13:57:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T18:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31916"},"modified":"2013-12-20T13:57:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T18:57:03","slug":"sunday-night-nfl-betting-preview-chicago-bears-vs-philadelphia-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/sunday-night-nfl-betting-preview-chicago-bears-vs-philadelphia-eagles-31916\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Night NFL Betting Preview: Chicago Bears vs. Philadelphia Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago Bears vs. Philadelphia Eagles
\nSunday, 12\/22\/13, 8:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Philadelphia -4
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Philadelphia -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 54.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 55.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Chicago Bears QB Jay Cutler has put up some good career numbers against the Philadelphia Eagles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chicago has won and covered the number in back-to-back games, including a 38-31 victory over the Cleveland Browns as one-point road underdogs in Week 15, while going OVER the betting total for the fourth time in five contests.\u00a0 Bears signal-caller Jay Cutler returned to action last week, while he\u2019s completed 56 of 96 passes for 626 yards with seven touchdowns and a single interception in three career starts versus the Eagles.\u00a0 Chicago is 1-3 SUATS as road underdogs of three or fewer points this season, with the OVER going 3-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Bears will win the NFC North division crown with a win Sunday if second-place Green Bay loses to Pittsburgh and Detroit drops a contest against the New York Giants, which is important to consider when looking over the NFL betting lines.\u00a0 Cutler has a chance to put up massive numbers due to Minnesota throwing for 382 yards last week against Philadelphia.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is averaging an NFC-high 29.0 points with Cutler throwing to Brandon Marshall and Alshon Jeffery, while also having the option of handing the ball off to running back Matt Forte.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia will return to primetime for the first time since Week 3, as it returns to Lincoln Financial Field after having its five-game winning streak snapped in dropping a 48-30 decision to the Minnesota Vikings Sunday.\u00a0 The Eagles have won six of the last 10 meetings in this series, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NFL betting predictions.\u00a0 Offensively, running back LeSean McCoy needs to be the centerpiece to any game plan, considering he\u2019s ran for 1,343 yards on the season.\u00a0 Philadelphia is 5-3 SU and 3-4-1 ATS as home favorites of three or fewer points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Eagles can become just the fourth team in NFL history to record 12 games of 400-plus yards of offense in a single season\u2014joining the 2007 New England Patriots, 2011 New Orleans Saints and this year\u2019s Denver Broncos.\u00a0 Philadelphia has also improved in a big way defensively, as it allowed 27.5 points per game through its first four contests, but just 19.9 over the last 10 affairs.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the Eagles, as the Bears are 2-5 ATS in their last seven games versus teams with a winning record.<\/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 vs. Philadelphia Eagles Sunday, 12\/22\/13, 8:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Philadelphia -4 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Philadelphia -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 54.5 Current Total:\u00a0 55.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Chicago has won and covered the number in back-to-back games, including a 38-31 victory over the Cleveland Browns as one-point road underdogs in Week 15, […]<\/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":[359,763,5425,3870,31,344],"class_list":["post-31916","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-lincoln-financial-field","tag-nfl","tag-philadelphia-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31916","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=31916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31917,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31916\/revisions\/31917"}],"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=31916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}