2022 CHICAGO BEARS
Over/Under Win Total: 6.5
For the city of Chicago, the Bears have gotten steadily worse the last three years. They have gone 8-8 in 2019 & 2020 and 6-11 in 2021. Since the end of 2012, they have had one winning season and that was 2018 with a 12-4 record. The Monsters of the midway haven’t scared anyone except, maybe their own fans. In fact, the RUSH DEF for CHI has gone from #1 in 2018 to #22 in 2021. On top of this, the CHI DEF had 8 INTS in total all of 2021.
But that’s only half the story. Three CHI QBs combined to get sacked 58x. This led the NFL in 2021. Rookie QB Justin Fields led the way, getting sacked 36x in 12 games. A shaky O-LINE for CHI & Fields may be again running for his life. Fields also needs to make better choices as he rushed for over 400 yards in 2021 but also fumbled 12x . He needs to hold on tighter if he is going to take off.
New HC Matt Eberflus is the fourth HC for CHI in the last ten years and was the Colts DC in 2021. So look for an improvement in the overall scheme of things on that side of the ball.
There is a lot of inexperience on this team but with a new HC & some new Assistant coaches this team should be able to get to seven wins.
THE BET: BEARS OVER 6.5 WINS (-120)
2022 CHICAGO BEARS SCHEDULE
- Week 1 – vs. San Francisco (FOX, 1:00 p.m.)
- Week 2 – at Green Bay (NBC, 8:20 p.m.)
- Week 3 – vs. Houston (CBS, 1:00 p.m.)
- Week 4 – at N.Y. Giants (FOX, 1:00 p.m.)
- Week 5 – at Minnesota (FOX, 1:00 p.m.)
- Week 6 – vs. Washington (Prime Video, 8:15 p.m.)
- Week 7 – at New England (ESPN, 8:15 p.m.)
- Week 8 – at Dallas (FOX, 1:00 p.m.)
- Week 9 – vs. Miami (CBS, 1:00 p.m.)
- Week 10 – vs. Detroit (FOX, 1:00 p.m.)
- Week 11 – at Atlanta (FOX, 1:00 p.m.)
- Week 12 – at N.Y. Jets (FOX, 1:00 p.m.)
- Week 13 – vs. Green Bay (FOX, 1:00 p.m.)
- Week 14 – BYE
- Week 15 – vs. Philadelphia (FOX, 1:00 p.m.)
- Week 16 – vs. Buffalo (CBS, 1:00 p.m.)
- Week 17 – at Detroit (FOX, 1:00 p.m.)
- Week 18 – vs. Minnesota (TBD)