{"id":5785,"date":"2009-09-26T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/nfl-football-handicapping-bears-vs-seahawks\/"},"modified":"2009-09-26T19:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T00:34:00","slug":"nfl-football-handicapping-bears-vs-seahawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/nfl-football-handicapping-bears-vs-seahawks\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Football Handicapping: Bears vs Seahawks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Chicago Bears and the Seattle Seahawks will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Qwest Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Bears listed as 3-point favorites versus the Seahawks, while the game’s total is sitting at 37. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Bears defeated Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 17-14 as a 3-point underdog in Week 2. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (38.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Jay Cutler passed for 236 yards with two touchdowns for Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> and Johnny Knox caught six passes for 70 yards and a touchdown. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Seahawks lost to San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 23-10 as a 1-point underdog in Week 2. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (39.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Seneca Wallace threw for 127 yards with a touchdown and an interception in place of the injured Matt Hasselbeck for Seattle<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> and T.J. Houshmandzadeh caught four passes for 62 yards. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 1-1 SU, 1-1 ATS
Seattle: 1-1 SU, 1-1 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:
When playing in September are 4-6
When playing on turf are 5-5
After being outgained are 7-3
When playing outside the division are 5-5<\/p>\n

Seattle<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:
When playing in September are 6-4
When playing on turf are 3-7
After being outgained are 3-7
When playing outside the division are 1-9<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Chicago’s last 10 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Chicago’s last 10 games
Chicago is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games
Chicago is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games when playing Seattle
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Seattle’s last 7 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Seattle’s last 11 games
Seattle is 10-4-1 ATS in its last 15 games at home
Seattle is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Chicago<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, October 4
Seattle<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Indianapolis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, October 4<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Chicago Bears and the Seattle Seahawks will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Qwest Field. Oddsmakers currently have the Bears listed as 3-point favorites versus the Seahawks, while the game’s total is sitting at 37. The Bears defeated Pittsburgh 17-14 as a 3-point underdog in Week 2. The … Continue reading NFL Football Handicapping: Bears vs Seahawks<\/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-5785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785","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=5785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}