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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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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 – Drew Brees All Day

 New Orleans at Minnesota

Spread: Pick Em

When New Orleans Has The Ball:

The Vikings defense hasn’t played up to their very high expectations and their usual standards this year and is currently dealing with a lot of injuries on this side of the ball. Linval Joseph, Everson Griffin, Anthony Barr, Xavier Rhodes and Andrew Sendejo could miss this contest and Mike Hughes is on injured reserve. The Saints have the best set of offensive tackles in the league and one of the top offensive lines without question, but they are dealing with injuries on the interior. This unit did an exceptional job of keep Drew Brees very clean against an excellent Ravens pass-rush in Baltimore last week. They used a lot of no huddle in that road contest and could do the same in Minnesota.

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Where Does Adam Thielen Rank Among  NFL’s Best WRs

As of this writing, Julio Jones hadn’t played yet in Week 7. Jones is second in the NFL in receiving yards, but still 114 yards behind the leader in this category, Adam Thielen. The Vikings have yet to have their bye, but Thielen has been targeted 89 times, seven more than Jarvis Landry, who is second in this category. Thielen has 26 more catches than Landry and 333 more yards on just seven additional targets to Landry. More remarkable, Thielen has a minimum of six catches and 102 yards in all seven of Minnesota’s games this season with those two low water marks coming back in Week 1. Needless to say, Thielen has been remarkably productive and consistent in 2018.

Of course Thielen was an excellent player in 2017 as well, but he only eclipsed the century mark for receiving yards on four occasions out of 19 games, including his three playoff games. To his credit, Thielen did also post three games with 96 or more receiving yards, but nonetheless, it is safe to say that he has taken his game to another level this year and is working extremely well with his new quarterback, Kirk Cousins.

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