You could hear the disdain for this football game in Al Michaels' voice a week ago. Each time he was ordered to read a promo for Bears vs. Commanders, his heart sunk just a little bit.
If the NFL had assigned all of the analytics gurus employed by its teams to attempt to find a game with the potential to be less aesthetically pleasing than last week's Thursday night debacle between the Colts and Broncos, their supercomputers may well have settled on this contest in Chicago. If you have zero expectations for entertainment value, my friends, then you can't be let down. Please keep that in mind while we brace ourselves for this inevitable football slog. And, above all else, let's find a way to prosper despite it.
I cannot tell a lie. This is far from one of my favorite plays in Week 6. Not close. Do I hate it? No. Do I love it? Hell no. I do believe there are some margins we can take advantage of, and we have been on a nice prime time roll lately, so let's try to make the best of a bad situation here and make some judicious plays.
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Spread: Bears (PK)
I suppose I will flip a coin and play the home team in this pick 'em. The Bears have been decent at home, albeit in just two games. And while Carson Wentz has been Mr. Thursday Night – 6-0 in his career- the fact that his head coach threw him under the bus this week, than ran him over a time or two mo re for good measure, gives me some pause. The Bears defense is getting better each week, Ron Rivera's defense has yielded the most rushing yards in the NFL to quarterbacks since he took over in Washington, and Justin Fields can obviously take off at any time. There is some bad juju around the Commanders right now. They've lost four in a row against the spread and I think they are getting a little sick of their coach's ramblings, to say nothing of their coordinators' deficiencies.