The Bears are good. The Bills are not. That means a big point spread.
The Chicago Bears are on the road this week as they travel to upstate New York to take on the Buffalo Bills.
The Bears currently sit as a ten-point favorite at most sports books, and that’s something that hasn’t happened in some time.
The Bears haven’t had many good teams lately, so you won’t find many times over the last ten years or so when the team was favored by 10 points, but they do exist. What you won’t find is a game where the Bears were favored by 10 points on the road.
To find a game when the Bears were that heavy of a favorite on the road, you have to rewind the clock all the way to the last season the Chicago Bears reached a Super Bowl.
Chicago Bears are currently a 10-point road favorite against the Buffalo Bills.
— Bill Zimmerman (@ZimmermanSXM) November 1, 2018
The last time the Bears were a double digit road favorite they were -13 against the Arizona Cardinals in October of 2006, the infamous "They are who we thought they were!" game.
What’s remarkable about the fact that the Bears are a 10-point road favorite means that if the game was in Chicago, the Bears would be favored by 16 or 17 points.
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The Buffalo Bills are bad, but it’s their QB situation that makes them this dreadful.
Nathan Peterman is so bad that Buffalo signed Derek Anderson off the street and started him immediately. Anderson doesn’t appear that he’ll be able to play, and therefore Peterman is going to start. The Bills signed former Bear Matt Barkley off the street to back-up Peterman.
The Barkley signing is no coincidence, Buffalo is almost certainly hoping that Barkley will be able to give the team some nuggets about Vic Fangio’s defense from his time in Chicago.
Regardless of any insight that Barkley can provide the Bills’ coaching staff, it doesn’t change the fact that the Bears are heavily favored and should win this game easily.
If the boys in Vegas are right, the Bears should cruise to a 5-3 record as they gear up for an important stretch where they play three divisional games in a stretch of twelve days. If the Bears want to truly set their sights on the division, the Bears need to take care of Buffalo and come out of those games 2-1 and increase their record to 8-4.
If that’s the case, you could even dare to put the Bears in the driver’s seat to win the division.