{"id":2101,"date":"2012-12-28T13:26:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T18:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2012-12-28T13:26:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T18:26:31","slug":"chicago-bears-versus-detroit-lions-points-spread-line-and-betting-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2012\/12\/28\/chicago-bears-versus-detroit-lions-points-spread-line-and-betting-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bears versus Detroit Lions points spread, line and betting odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2102\" alt=\"lions\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/lions.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/lions.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/lions-300x219.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/lions-50x36.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Bears will play against the Detroit Lions at Ford Field in Detroit, MI. The game will air on FOX at 1 pm EST.<\/p>\n<p>Week ago few could have predicted that the Chicago Bears would need a win and some help in Week 17 in order to make the playoffs. The Bears need a win and a Vikings loss in order to move onto post season play.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the points spread in the Bears and Lions game?<\/strong> The Bears are 3 point favorites against the Lions. The over\/under for the game is 44.5 total points.<\/p>\n<table align=\"right\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th><\/th>\n<th nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n<div>CHI<\/div>\n<\/th>\n<th nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n<div>DET<\/div>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>W-L<\/td>\n<td>9-6<\/td>\n<td>4-11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Avg Points<\/td>\n<td>23.3<\/td>\n<td>23.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Avg Points Allowed<\/td>\n<td>16.9<\/td>\n<td>27.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Home Record<\/td>\n<td>5-3<\/td>\n<td>2-5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Road Record<\/td>\n<td>4-3<\/td>\n<td>2-6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The Bears were considered one of the best teams in the NFL when they were 7-1. Jay Cutler missed some time and suddenly the Bears are trying to find a way to make the playoffs. The biggest problem for the Bears offense is their offensive line. It has not helped that the Bears have one quality receiver in Brandon Marshall.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit wide out Calvin Johnson recently broke Jerry Rice&#8217;s single season mark for receiving yards in a season. The Lions have been in free fall since last season. The Lions have lost their last seven games their longest slide since going 0-16 during 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Bears will play against the Detroit Lions at Ford Field in Detroit, MI. The game will air on FOX at 1 pm EST. Week ago few could have predicted that the Chicago Bears would need a win and some help in Week 17 in order to make the playoffs. The Bears need a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-2101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}