{"id":2068,"date":"2008-09-20T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/buccaneers-bears-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-09-20T20:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T01:19:00","slug":"buccaneers-bears-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/buccaneers-bears-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Buccaneers-Bears Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Chicago Bears will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Soldier Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Bears listed as 3-point favorites versus the Buccaneers, while the game’s total is sitting at 35\u00bd. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Buccaneers defeated Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 24-9 as a 7.5-point favorite in Week 2. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (37.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Earnest Graham rumbled for 116 yards and a touchdown on 15 carries for Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>, while Brian Griese passed for 160 yards with a touchdown in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Bears lost to Carolina<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 20-17 as a 3-point underdog in Week 2. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (37.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kyle Orton passed for 149 yards for Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> and Matt Forte rushed for 92 yards on 23 carries in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 1-1 SU, 1-1 ATS
Chicago: 1-1 SU, 1-0-1 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> most recently:
When playing in September are 5-5
When playing on grass are 5-5
After outgaining opponent are 5-5
When playing outside the division are 4-6<\/p>\n

Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:
When playing in September are 5-5
When playing on grass are 5-5
After outgaining opponent are 4-6
When playing outside the division are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Tampa Bay’s last 5 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Tampa Bay’s last 5 games when playing Chicago
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Tampa Bay’s last 5 games when playing on the road against Chicago
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Tampa Bay’s last 8 games
Chicago is 19-4 SU in its last 23 games when playing at home against Tampa Bay
Chicago is 4-0-1 ATS in its last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Chicago’s last 5 games when playing Tampa Bay
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Chicago’s last 5 games when playing at home against Tampa Bay<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Tampa<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> Bay home to Green Bay, Sunday, September 28
Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, September 28<\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Chicago Bears will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Soldier Field. Oddsmakers currently have the Bears listed as 3-point favorites versus the Buccaneers, while the game’s total is sitting at 35\u00bd. The Buccaneers defeated Atlanta 24-9 as a 7.5-point favorite in Week 2. … Continue reading Buccaneers-Bears Preview<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}