{"id":35983,"date":"2014-10-26T09:15:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T14:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35983"},"modified":"2014-10-26T09:22:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T14:22:16","slug":"nfl-week-8-picks-chicago-bears-vs-new-england-patriots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-week-8-picks-chicago-bears-vs-new-england-patriots-35983\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 8 Picks: Chicago Bears vs. New England Patriots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago Bears vs. New England Patriots
\nSunday, 10\/26\/14, 1:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 New England -6.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 New England -5.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 49
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 51
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker
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The Chicago Bears have a major weapon with RB Matt Forte<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chicago has dropped three of its last four games, including a 27-14 defeat to the Miami Dolphins as three-point home favorites Sunday, while going UNDER the betting total for a second consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Bears will need to get running back Matt Forte involved in the offense, as he\u2019s the league\u2019s fifth leading rusher with 448 yards on the ground, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your Week 8 NFL betting picks.\u00a0 He\u2019s also a threat in the passing game in grabbing 52 balls for 436 yards.\u00a0 Chicago is 1-2 SUATS as road underdogs of 3.5 to 7 points the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 2-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Bears were out-gained by a significant 393-224 margin in their last setback, which is important to consider when looking over the NFL betting lines, but they\u2019ve managed to win three of their four games away from Soldier Field in 2014.\u00a0 Chicago will need quarterback Jay Cutler to take care of the football, as he\u2019s thrown seven picks in the franchise\u2019s four losses, while also committing two fumbles in those contests.<\/p>\n

New England has won three games in a row, including a 27-25 victory over the New York Jets as 9.5-point home favorites on Oct. 16, while going OVER the betting total for a fourth consecutive affair.\u00a0 The Patriots are going to attract a majority of the betting action in this matchup, as they\u2019ve won 12 straight games at Gillette Stadium, while also proving victorious in all three all-time meetings in this particular series when playing at home.\u00a0 New England is 6-1 SUATS as home favorites of 3.5 to 7 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Patriots are certainly deserving to be favorites against the Bears, as signal-caller Tom Brady has thrown for 964 yards and six touchdowns with three interceptions in winning all three of his career starts in the series.\u00a0 New England is a banged up football team, as it expects to be without the services of sack leader Chandler Jones, while also continuing on for the rest of the 2014 campaign without linebacker Jerod Mayo and running back Stevan Ridley.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Bears due to the Patriots being 7-11 ATS after two or more consecutive wins.<\/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. New England Patriots Sunday, 10\/26\/14, 1:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 New England -6.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 New England -5.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 49 Current Total:\u00a0 51 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Chicago has dropped three of its last four games, including a 27-14 defeat to the Miami Dolphins as three-point home favorites Sunday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":34962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[359,5649,763,425,125,31,398],"class_list":["post-35983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-chicago-bears","tag-gillette-stadium","tag-jay-cutler","tag-matt-forte","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-tom-brady"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35983","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=35983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35984,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35983\/revisions\/35984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}