{"id":2527,"date":"2008-11-02T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/lions-bears-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-11-02T08:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T13:02:00","slug":"lions-bears-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/lions-bears-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions-Bears Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Detroit Lions and the Chicago Bears will meet on the gridiron at Soldier Field on Sunday in a battle of division rivals. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Bears listed as 13-point favorites versus the Lions, while the game’s total is sitting at 43\u00bd. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Lions lost to Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> 25-17 as a 7-point underdog in Week 8. The combined score caused this game to be a PUSH on the posted over\/under total (42). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Dan Orlovsky threw for 223 yards with a touchdown for Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> and Rudi Johnson rushed for 21 yards on eight carries with a touchdown. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kyle Orton passed for 283 yards and two TDs in Week 7 as the Bears topped the Vikings by a score of 48-41. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Bears managed to cover the 3-point spread at home in that contest, while the combined score went well OVER the day’s posted total (37.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 7 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 0-7 SU, 2-5 ATS
Chicago: 4-3 SU, 4-2-1<\/st1:date> ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Detroit most recently:
When playing in November are 2-8
When playing on grass are 2-8
After being outgained are 1-9
When playing within the division are 3-7<\/p>\n

Chicago most recently:
When playing in November are 7-3
When playing on grass are 6-4
After being outgained are 7-3
When playing within the division are 5-5<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Detroit’s last 8 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 10 of Detroit’s last 15 games when playing Chicago
Detroit is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games when playing Chicago
Detroit is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games when playing on the road against Chicago
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Chicago’s last 5 games at home
Chicago is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games at home
Chicago is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games at home
Chicago is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games when playing Detroit<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Jacksonville<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, November 9
Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Tennessee<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Sunday, November 9<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Detroit Lions and the Chicago Bears will meet on the gridiron at Soldier Field on Sunday in a battle of division rivals. Oddsmakers currently have the Bears listed as 13-point favorites versus the Lions, while the game’s total is sitting at 43\u00bd. The Lions lost to Washington 25-17 as a 7-point underdog in Week … Continue reading Lions-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-2527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527","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=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}