Chicago Bears vs New Orleans Saints prediction, NFL Playoff NFC Wild Card preview.
Chicago Bears vs New Orleans Saints Broadcast
Date: Sunday, January 10
Game Time: 4:40 ET
Venue: Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans, LA
Network: CBS
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Why The Chicago Bears Will Win The NFC Wild Card
The running game continues to work.
The Bears made changes in who’s handling the offense and how it’s run, and everything changed late in the season after struggling through disastrous losses against Green Bay and Detroit.
The offensive line started playing better, David Montgomery became a force, and Mitchell Trubisky – when not having to deal with graduate level NFL quarterbacking – has been solid.
All of a sudden, the offense exploded with its best run of the year before running into Green Bay. In this, run well, have a chance to pull off the win.
New Orleans has allowed more than 115 rushing yards three times and lost all three games. Chicago has run for more than 115 yards in five of the last six games.
Before all of this, the Bears were able to push New Orleans hard in a Week 8 overtime loss with the defense doing a decent job of holding down the Saint passing attack from going off, and it held the ground attack to just 122 yards.
Yes, everything is supposed to be fine and everyone is expected to be back, but the New Orleans running backs are coming off of a stretch of being out thanks to the COVID protocol. If this game was played on Saturday, Alvin Kamara and others wouldn’t be able to play.
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Why The New Orleans Saints Will Win The NFC Wild Card
Yeah, Chicago was fantastic over the last month of the season as the offense took off and the team ripped through three straight games before dealing with Green Bay.
Yeah, it was fantastic. You would be, too, against Houston, Minnesota and Jacksonville.
The Bears have just one win this season against a playoff team – beating Tampa Bay 20-19 back in Week 5 on a Thursday night – and are 0-7 against the other playoff teams on the slate.
The offense isn’t that amazing.
It’s running well, but the attack is struggling way too much at moving the chains and getting anything going on third downs. When the Saints are working, they’re great on third downs on both sides of the ball, the secondary is forcing takeaways – they lead the NFL in picks – and they’re generating a good offensive balance no matter who their skill guys are.
And now they should have almost all the parts together and ready to roll.
The Saints will get their running backs back after missing in the Carolina game. They should have Michael Thomas back and rolling in the receiving corps, and they should have the ability to score fast, get up quickly, and make the Bears press.
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What’s Going To Happen In The NFC Wild Card
The Saint offense should be able to match the defense.
The narrative all year long about New Orleans has been around an attack that was never quite right. Michael Thomas wasn’t himself after a historic 2019, Drew Brees missed a chunk of time, and Alvin Kamara was out late in the year.
The O will be as good as it’s been all year long – even if the Chicago D keeps this from getting out of hand – but it’s the other side of the ball that will get it done for the Saints.
Expect this to be a sharp overall performance. Again, Chicago won’t be awful and it will have a few moments when it’ll look like it could get back in the game early in the second half, but when the Saints have to step up on both sides of the ball to put this away, they will.
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Chicago Bears vs New Orleans Saints Prediction, Line
New Orleans 34, Chicago 20
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ATS Confidence out of 5: 3
Must See Rating: 3.5
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