{"id":15209,"date":"2009-10-30T22:59:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T03:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=15209"},"modified":"2009-10-30T22:59:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T03:59:42","slug":"wk8-nfl-browns-bears-predictions-301009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/point-spreads\/wk8-nfl-browns-bears-predictions-301009\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 8 Spreads: Cleveland vs. Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

NFL Handicapping: Browns vs Bears<\/h2>\n

Sunday, November 1st \u2013 Soldier Field \u2013 Chicago, IL<\/strong><\/p>\n

NFL Point Spread: Bears -13, O\/U: 40<\/p>\n

This is another game that won\u2019t be found in the Pro Football Hall of Fame\u2019s archives\u2026 unless there\u2019s a Football Follies section. Cleveland Browns brings its dysfunctional team and its particularly horrendous offense into the Windy City to play a bunch of Bears who are not living up to preseason expectations, at least not in the case of Chicago quarterback Jay Cutler. <\/p>\n

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Coach Lovie Smith\u2019s mistake-prone signal caller is plummeting as quickly as Kyle Orton\u2019s stock is rising for the undefeated Denver Broncos. It\u2019s hard to imagine things getting any worse for the Bears than their 45-10 face-plant against Cincinnati on Oct. 25. The Browns seem to embarrass themselves every week; coach Eric Mangini\u2019s club lost, 31-3 to Green Bay, in a typically dreadful outing.<\/p>\n

NFL Handicapping: What The Browns Have To Do To Win <\/strong><\/p>\n

Complete downfield passes or any passes, for that matter. Derek Anderson, part of the quarterbacking merry-go-round that has robbed this team of any continuity in 2009, is playing a woeful brand of ball. Last week\u2019s pitiful performance against the Packers, in which Anderson threw for only 99 yards, marked the third time in five starts this season that Brady Quinn\u2019s competitor failed to reach 100 passing yards in a game. Anderson threw for 92 yards in a loss to Baltimore, and for only 23 yards in the team\u2019s lone win at Buffalo. [soliloquy id=”82219″]The 1-6 Browns are an unhappy lot, torn apart by Mangini\u2019s indecisiveness and suspect day-to-day management of team affairs. If they expect to win, they have to hit big plays; if they are forced to slowly dink and dunk the ball down the field, they won\u2019t have the starch or the stomach to do so.<\/p>\n

NFL Handicapping: What The Bears Have To Do To Win <\/strong><\/p>\n

Threaten Jay Cutler with a benching if he throws more than one interception. Seriously, in light of Cleveland\u2019s utter lack of any offensive potency whatsoever, the only way the Bears can realistically lose this game (which might get Lovie Smith fired, the way things are going) is if Cutler tosses a pick-six and throws in a few other interceptions to boot. The Bears did get crushed at Cincinnati last week, but Bengal quarterback Carson Palmer \u2013 who riddled Chicago\u2019s secondary for 20 completions in just 24 pass attempts \u2013 is an elite NFL passer. Derek Anderson \u2013 or anyone else Mangini might turn to in this upcoming encounter \u2013 won\u2019t do anything to threaten Chicago\u2019s back line of defense. If the Bears don\u2019t slip on the banana peel and hand-deliver points to the Browns, they\u2019ll win. One doesn\u2019t need a degree from M.I.T. or Yale to figure that one out.<\/p>\n

NFL Handicapping: Outlook & Pick <\/strong><\/p>\n

Chicago might not be spectacular in this game, but with even a modestly sound performance, the Bears should run all over Cleveland, which could very well be worse than either the Lions or the Rams. Take the Bears minus the points; the under could get dicey, but it\u2019s more probable than not.<\/p>\n

NFL Point Spread Pick: Bears -13 & Under 40<\/strong>
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Oddsmakers currently have the Bears listed as 13-point favorites versus the Browns, while the game’s total is sitting at 40. We give you our Week 8 NFL Predictions for this Cleveland Browns vs. Chicago Bears matchup…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005],"tags":[41,19468,19469,19470,18746,802,850,878,19353,18744,3311,19471,19081],"class_list":["post-15209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-point-spreads","tag-41","tag-browns-vs-bears","tag-cleveland-browns-vs-chicago-bears","tag-cleveland-vs-chicago","tag-expert-selections","tag-nfl-betting","tag-nfl-point-spreads","tag-nfl-wagering","tag-nfl-week-8-spreads","tag-wagering-preview","tag-week-8","tag-week-8-nfl-predictions","tag-week-8-pointspreads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15211,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15209\/revisions\/15211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}