{"id":35359,"date":"2014-09-14T14:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T19:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35359"},"modified":"2014-09-14T21:21:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T02:21:38","slug":"nfl-week-2-predictions-chicago-bears-vs-san-francisco-49ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-week-2-predictions-chicago-bears-vs-san-francisco-49ers-35359\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 2 Predictions: Chicago Bears vs. San Francisco 49ers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago Bears vs. San Francisco 49ers
\nSunday, 9\/14\/14, 8:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 San Francisco -7
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 San Francisco -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 48
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 47.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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San Francisco 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick should have a big game offensively versus the Chicago Bears<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chicago dropped a 23-20 overtime decision to the Buffalo Bills as seven-point home favorites last week, as it won the statistical battle by 67 yards, while going UNDER the betting total of 47.\u00a0 Bears quarterback Jay Cutler threw for 349 yards and two touchdowns in the opener, but he was also picked off twice in the loss.\u00a0 The team is hoping to avoid its first 0-2 start since 2003.\u00a0 Chicago is 3-9 SUATS as underdogs the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 7-5 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Bears have lost their last seven road games against the 49ers, as they\u2019ve been outscored by an average of 27.6 points.\u00a0 Cutler has some big-time weapons to target in the passing game, with Alshon Jeffery and Brandon Marshall combining for 13 catches and 142 yards last week before Jeffery spent most of the second half on the sideline with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n

San Francisco is ready to play its first regular season game at the $1.2 billion Levi\u2019s Stadium on NBC\u2019s Sunday Night Football, as it looks to build off a 28-17 victory over the Dallas Cowboys as 3.5-point road favorites in Week 1.\u00a0 The 49ers will look to play a physical brand of football in this affair, especially since Frank Gore and Carlos Hyde combined for 116 rushing yards at AT&T Stadium, which is important to consider when making your NFL predictions.\u00a0 San Francisco is 4-2 SUATS as home favorites of 3.5 to 7 points over the last two-plus seasons, with no clear edge in terms of the betting total (3-3 Over\/Under).<\/p>\n

The 49ers should be able to move the football throughout this contest, considering the Bears have allowed the most yards on the zone read in the NFL dating back to the start of the 2013 campaign.\u00a0 San Francisco signal-caller Colin Kaepernick paces the league with six rushing touchdowns on zone-read plays since 2012.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the 49ers due to the home team covering the number in six of the last seven meetings in this series.<\/p>\n

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Chicago Bears vs. San Francisco 49ers Sunday, 9\/14\/14, 8:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 San Francisco -7 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 San Francisco -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 48 Current Total:\u00a0 47.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Chicago dropped a 23-20 overtime decision to the Buffalo Bills as seven-point home favorites last week, as it won the statistical battle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[359,3034,763,8431,299],"class_list":["post-35359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-chicago-bears","tag-colin-kaepernick","tag-jay-cutler","tag-levis-stadium","tag-san-francisco-49ers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35359","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=35359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35360,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35359\/revisions\/35360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}