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Thursday Night Football: For the new season, Chicago had a quick start with 3-0 straight up. Nevertheless, after a bang in NFL Week 4 against New York Giants, most of the bettors were prepared to write this team off.
CHICAGO BEARS (6-3) AT DOLPHINS MIAMI (5-4)
Line: Dolphins -1.5
Over/Under: 40
Chicago Bears are back and ranked top in the NFL North with 3-0 record seven weeks later. It still sounds that most of the people are not sold on this group and despite having longest injury report in the league, sportsbook who have posted the Dolphins as favorite.
As Chad Pennington has gone for the year and Chad Henne has been sidelined by a left injury, QB is the blazing concern for the Miami's.
In the fourth quarter, Tyler Thigpen entered last week's game against the Titans is about to start and has already taken the reps with the first team in practice. He finished 4-of-6 for 64 yards along with a touchdown. As a starter, 1-10 SU record sounds well. In the NFL, the Chiefs were the poor defense other than the Lions who were winless in 2008.
Chicago Bears
The football tradition for Chicago is built up on defense. It's ranked second with a unit against the rush. For the recent opponents, the sustaining drives were not easy.
Chicago could record only three sacks in their past four games. But, Miami could withstand without Pro Bowl LT Jake Long.
This game seems to be low scoring with defensive battle. We incline towards "Under" but the danger of a special teams or defensive score seems to be very high.
