Week Fifteen, Thursday Night
I’m definitely not gonna finish up the week before kickoff tonight, so here’s what you shouldn’t expect from New Orleans-Chicago. I’ll follow up with the rest of my hopelessly off-base predictions for this week later tonight or tomorrow.
New Orleans (+3) at Chicago
On paper, both of these 7-6 teams are still in the playoff hunt. In reality, only the Bears, who can still win the NFC North title, have a legitimate shot of extending their season into January. They need to win this game to keep their hopes alive, however. Plus, they’re at home. And they come in with a giveaway/takeaway differential of +6 as compared to the Saints’ -4 (and, notably, the gap is largely result of the Bears’ DBs picking off a lot of balls and Drew Brees throwing his fair share of picks — not an unreasonable number of them, but enough). So I suppose I’ll take the home team and look for them to win it by four.
