{"id":2943,"date":"2008-12-07T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/jaguars-bears-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-07T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T14:40:00","slug":"jaguars-bears-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/jaguars-bears-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars-Bears Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The fans at Soldier Field will be treated to a game between the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Chicago Bears when they take their seats on Sunday. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Bears listed as 7-point favorites versus the Jaguars, while the game’s total is sitting at 40\u00bd. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
David Garrard went 25-of-35 for 287 yards with a touchdown and a pick for Jacksonville<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> in its 30-17 loss to Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> on Monday night. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> won as 3.5-point home favorites as the teams played under the 49-point total posted by oddsmakers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Bears lost to Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> 34-13 as a 3.5-point underdog last week. The combined score went OVER the posted over\/under total (42). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Kyle Orton threw for 153 yards with two touchdowns and three interceptions for Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> and Matt Forte rushed for 96 yards on 22 carries. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Jacksonville<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Jacksonville<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 4-8 SU, 3-9 ATS
Chicago: 6-6 SU, 5-6-1<\/st1:date> ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jacksonville most recently:
When playing in December are 4-6
When playing on grass are 3-7
After outgaining opponent are 5-5
When playing outside the division are 4-6<\/p>\n

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

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 16 of Jacksonville’s last 24 games
Jacksonville is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games
Jacksonville is 1-5 ATS in its last 6 games
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Chicago’s last 7 games at home
Chicago is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games at home
Chicago is 6-12 ATS in its last 18 games at home
Chicago is 1-4 ATS in its last 5 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Jacksonville<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Green Bay, Sunday, December 14
Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to New Orleans<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Thursday, December 11<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The fans at Soldier Field will be treated to a game between the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Chicago Bears when they take their seats on Sunday. Oddsmakers currently have the Bears listed as 7-point favorites versus the Jaguars, while the game’s total is sitting at 40\u00bd. David Garrard went 25-of-35 for 287 yards with a … Continue reading Jaguars-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-2943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943","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=2943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}