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CHICAGO -2½ +105 over Minnesota

4:25 PM EST. While we see different prices at different joints, we're going to "sell" some points and take the Bears up to -2½ and take back a little vig. In that regard, one can take back a small price at every place we checked as oppossed to spotting -1, -1½ or -2 and juice.

There might not be two teams we learned less about in Week 3, as the Vikings and Bears both disposed of much lesser opposition with ease. For the Bears, their 31-15 win over the Redskins was seen by millions of people on Monday Night Football and that W has been shrugged off as a laugher. Washington turned the ball over five times and made the night very easy for Chicago, so much so that the Bears slept walked through the second half after taking a 28-0 lead into the break. The NFC North was expected to be a one-horse race with the Bears being the clear favorites, but after three weeks they are an uninspiring 2-1 and have looked average at best in a pair of high profile prime time games to start the season and their lone win was a gift from the officials in Denver. The market has seen plenty of this Bears team and because of that, their warts are far more exposed than the Vikings, who might feature the biggest eyesore of all. 

Kurt Cousins is a decent quarterback. Well, as long as he's playing a team like the Raiders or Falcons with very little on the line. A division game against the Packers? Garbage. A must-win game at home against these Bears in Week 17 when Chicago had already punched its postseason ticket? Dog vomit. Cousins cannot be trusted when there are stakes of any kind, which makes this Week 4 matchup against the rivals Bears one of the tastiest on the slate. The Vikings are 2-1 with a pair of "meh" wins over Atlanta and Oakland respectively. The best game they played was a Week 2 loss in Green Bay and in all honesty, it's one they should have won. What sank the Vikes ship? Three turnovers by their $84-million man (that’s guaranteed money by the way). Asking Cousins to play error-free football in hostile enemy territory is a fools errand and a bet we cannot recommend making. If there's a worse "big game" quarterback in this league, we don't know who it is. The Bears are short-priced and offer up tremendous value here at home. We even see the real Bears today.

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