Chicago Bears

Game of Week Bears-Vikings Stack Up Well

Minnesota at Chicago

Spread: Bears -3

When Minnesota Has The Ball:

A huge key for Minnesota to winning this road contest is protecting the football against a Bears team that leads the NFL in turnover differential. When asked to do too much, Kirk Cousins has become sloppy with the ball. This is especially true early in his career, but remains a part of his makeup nonetheless now as well. Obviously, the best way to take control of what should be a very close game and lighten Cousins’ load is to run the football with a-healthy Dalvin Cook

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Clear Schedule Trends Stand Out for Stretch Run

The NFL has always tried to be the league of parity.

Teams with the worst records get the best draft choices. The salary cap forces the best teams to struggle to keep all of their players. It’s not that the league wants 32 8-8 teams, but it does want close competition and the hope that teams in playoff contention as late in December as possible.

That’s not going to be the case this year. Only 13 teams have winning records. Eleven teams are three wins or fewer. You have the haves and the have not, which makes teams’ schedules all that much important.

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Bad WR Deal Led Dez Bryant to New Orleans Saints

The New Orleans Saints placed wide receiver Cameron Meredith on the injured reserve list today after finding out he’s going to need arthroscopic surgery.

That explains the signing of Dez Bryant, who will be paid $600,000 for the remainder of the season. Meredith, who suffered an ACL injury last season when he was with the Chicago Bears, signed a two-year, $9.5 million deal with the Saints as a restricted free agent. The Bears didn’t match and went out and signed wide receivers Allen Robinson and Taylor Gabriel.

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Fantasy Saturday – Stay away from Allen Robinson

Week 9 Fantasy Injury Impact

Pittsburgh at Baltimore

Baltimore’s Offensive Line

The Ravens were without two starting offensive linemen last week and were dominated up front by Carolina. Ronnie Stanley, one of their best linemen, was then injured in that contest and will not play against Pittsburgh. This unit is really beat up needless to say and both offensive tackles have been ruled out. They face a physical Steelers defensive line as well as a capable pair of edge rushers in TJ Watt and Bud Dupree. Pittsburgh did a great job of confusing the Browns protection schemes a week ago and could do the same vs. the Ravens, especially with cohesion being a possible problem. The Steelers have been quietly excellent against the run and Alex Collins (who is also questionable) hasn’t inspired confidence of late with his running as well as fumbling issues. Overall, this is a game to avoid for fantasy reasons overall. Don’t expect much production on either side of the ball.

Chicago at Buffalo

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Injuries may be Difference in Tight NFC North

The injury report is a must study in the NFC North each Friday.

November is going to be a brutal month for NFC North teams and none of the four teams can afford overloaded injury reports. There’s a game-and-a-half gap between the Chicago Bears and the Detroit Lions with Minnesota and Green Bay in between them. The upstart Bears are 4-3, the Vikings are 4-3-1, the Packers are 3-3-1 and the Lions are 3-4. See, it’s a tight race.

The way the month is shaping up the NFC North teams the all four teams can do serious damage to playoff hopes or playoff seedings. NFC North teams face each other five times this month. Unless one team gets hot, there is a good chance the NFC North leader could come out of the month one game over .500 or just .500.

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Game of Week — Brady and Gronkowski are Big Fantasy Plays

New England at Chicago

Spread: Patriots -4

When New England Has The Ball:

We can’t do this, but when analyzing the Bears defense, we should really throw their disastrous game last week out the window. Why you ask? Of course it counts like every other game and you can’t make excuses in the NFL, but there were many things at play working against the Bears. First off, they prepared all week for Ryan Tannehill, not Brock Osweiler who was named the starter right before kickoff.

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You’re Damn Right the Bears Are for Real, Even If Mitchell Trubisky Is a Work in Progress

The Chicago Bears sit alone atop the NFC North at 3-1 after dismantling Tampa Bay by 38 points in Week 4. Only the Ravens and Rams currently have a better overall point differential than Chicago and only the Browns have a better turnover differential. We all saw this coming, right? Is it for real?

Well, after a very active offseason, many were picking Chicago to be a surprise team. Many, in fact, took it a step farther by saying that this team is the 2018 version of last year’s Rams.

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