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NFL Week 16 Betting Previews- Chicago Bears vs. Green Bay Packers Point spread: Green Bay -13 Total line: 44

The battered Chicago Bears invade Mile High Stadium this Sunday afternoon to take-on Tim Tebow and the high-flying Denver Broncos in a crucial inter-conference clash for both team’s playoff hopes. Game time is set for 4:05 p.m. (ET) and it will be broadcast regionally on FOX.

The Chicago Bears tangle with the undefeated Detroit Lions under the prime time lights of Monday Night Football this week in a classic black and blue battle of division rivals. The game is scheduled to get underway from Ford Field at 8:30 p.m. (ET) and it will be broadcast nationally on ESPN.

Carolina picked up its first win of the season last week with a 16-10 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars as 3.5-point home favorites. Ironically enough, the Panthers were out-gained in a contest for the first time during the 2011 season in the win.

Green Bay will be facing Chicago for the third time in the past nine months, as the team clinched a playoff berth with a 10-3 win in the season finale in Lambeau Field, while also coming away with a 21-14 win in the NFC Championship Game inside Sunday’s venue.

Lines for Week 3 in the NFL

Chicago heads out on the road after picking up a convincing 30-12 victory over the Atlanta Falcons as one-point home underdogs. The Bears also received great news with the return of linebacker Brian Urlacher.

NFL Lines for week 2

The Atlanta Falcons hope that being favored on the road in a season opener turns out better than last year’s 15-9 loss in Pittsburgh last year. If you were Falcons betting

Early bettors continue to push this line in favor of the Atlanta Falcons, who finished the 2010 season with the best record in the NFC, but was eliminated by eventual Super Bowl champion Green Bay

Florida Atlantic travels to The Swamp in Gainesville and will begin the final season under head coach Howard Schnellenberger, who began the program 13 years ago, taking it from obscurity into the major college football ranks

LSU is a dominating 20-4 all-time against current members of the Pac-12 Conference, which includes a 3-0 mark under Miles. Playing inside of a dome will likely factor little in the Tigers ability to come out with a victory, entering with a 22-7 all-time mark when indoors. LSU has won

Cleveland has dropped consecutive games SU and ATS since winning its preseason opener against the Green Bay Packers (27-17). The Browns have been out-gained by 176 combined yards in losses to the

Bettors are enjoying a unique opportunity to start playing around with the NFL Week 1 lines this year, even with many roster spots in doubt due to free agency starting this week. Professional bettors will continue moving these numbers around until the season kicks off with a premiere matchup

The Chicago Bears were a step away from reaching the Super Bowl last year, but an injury to starting quarterback Jay Cutler was too much to overcome in a 21-14 home loss to the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship. Cutler’s personality is under scrutiny again heading into the 2011 season, as his summer marriage to Hollywood starlet Kristin Cavallari

The ongoing negotiations between the NFL owners and the Players Association to arrive at a new CBA (collective bargaining agreement) continue to point towards a resolution that could potentially end a four-month owner imposed lockout of the players and reopen the league for business as early as the end of this week

The 2011 Pro Bowl returns to Hawaii after being held in Miami, Florida last year. The annual contest of the AFC's and NFC's best will take place Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011, at 7 p.m. ET. This is only the second time in history that the Pro Bowl will be held the week

Can you believe these 4 lame teams are playing for the SuperBowl? Personally I can name at least 5 teams that are better, that are playing golf right now. That being said

Seattle was a slam dunk pick last week. You knew they were going to play hard at home last Sunday after playing so well against the Rams the week before. Chicago is laughing

Chicago sure looked like they were back on track against Minnesota on Monday night, then again everybody looks like Super Bowl champs playing Minnesota this year. The Jets always

This game will most likely be play outdoors at the University of Minnesota. Back in the old days, do you remember the great games being played outdoors in the frigid cold in Minnesota. The Bears

The Bears are starting to make people feel that they are for real. The Lions really played well on Thanksgiving until the second half. I never would have guessed that Chicago would

The Eagles got so lucky last week. They should have lost that game against the Giants, but a few lucky plays and calls cost New York. Chicago played much better than we thought they would in Miami

After a mediocre week our record still stands at 54-39 -3 for the year. We picked both of these teams in mild upsets last week, and we were right both times. The Dolphins

The Vikings still want to save their season while Chicago is in good shape to be a division winner as long as they play good football. It is still very early in the year

Another fantastic week going 7-2 and raising our record to 44-29 -2, a whopping 60% rate. We feel pretty bad for the Bills who have given their all 2 weeks

Chicago has to start blocking some people or Jay Cutler is going to get killed. Washington has been playing very well all year, including last week, against Indy

Chicago looked pretty bad last week but it was the Giants that made them look bad. Carolina is actually playing pretty good for a team

Another great week. We went 7-3 and hit on our big teaser bet. That makes it year to date, 27-14-1 and 3-1 on Teaser betting. We will start the week

Last week we told you to bet the team that was down at the half in the second half of the Bears game and we were right, but we also placed a personal bet on the under at the last minute, which also worked. That was the good news

The Packers look like the best team in football so far. The Bears have been surprising good. As long as Jay Cutler doesn’t force the ball into double coverage

After a surprising Week 3 performance in which Wisconsin barely squeaked out a 20-19 win over Arizona State and needed a blocked extra point to do it, the Badgers get

We told you Dallas wasn’t that good, plus they have major problems with their Offensive line now. Chicago got lucky last week, against Detroit. That being said

Since Matt Millen left, the Lions have done some good things. The defense is better and Stafford will be a good quarterback

With emotions running high on both sides of the ball, one team (Florida) will benefit greatly. The other will suffer an embarrassing loss on New Year’s Day. Cincinnati is playing without former head coach Brian Kelly, who led the Bearcats to significant success in recent years

We hate to say I told you so, but I told you that the Vikings were overrated all year, and I think after a second embarrassing loss on national TV, I proved my point. Favre is done, was done 4 years ago, and as far as fighting with the coach about coming out of the game, that’s B.S

The Packers looked really good on Monday night in beating the Ravens while the Bears finally won a game against the Rams. We wish we knew what the line is here, but since the Packers played Monday night and I write my column on Tuesday morning there was no line available at the time

The Bears let us down last week. They looked like they were going to win that game against the Eagles, but a late touchdown cost them the game, and probably their season. Jay Cutler looks like a defeated man. He came into town as the saviour

Virginia coach Al Groh has beaten the Cavaliers’ arch rival Hokies just one time in his nine years at UVA. He and the Cavaliers look to make that number two and possibly avoid his firing this Saturday in Charlottesville. The Hokies are in a down year at 8-3 and will not contend for the ACC Championship,

Not quite the same allure as the Red River Rivalry between Texas and Oklahoma, but this week’s Bedlam Rivalry game is Oklahoma State’s Super Bowl. The Cowboys have had a tremendous season so far and Oklahoma is sitting at 6-5, ensured of its worst season since 1999

Boise State doesn’t play too many home games where they are only 14 point favorites, but that is exactly what they are this week when Nevada comes to play on the blue turf. Boise State needs a win this week, and badly. Though the Broncos are 11-0, their only hope for a BCS appearance

Despite an 11-0 record up to this point, Alabama still realistically needs to win its next two games to get into the National Championship. With Florida a perfect 11-0 as well, the Crimson Tide will need to beat Auburn this week and Florida in the SEC Championship

At first glance you might think that it was quite a shocker that Oakland beat Cincinnati last week, but at we said the Bengals were coming off their biggest win in years and might be flat. We also felt that Jamarcus Russell was hindering the Raider offense and the switch to anybody but he was the correct move

Both of these teams have problems. Miami really can’t play offense at the N.F.L. level. They look like a college or high school team at times, with their “Wildcat” offense and their quarterback who throws the ball like a shot put. Another quarterback, who has a funky delivery is Phillip Rivers

The next 2 games that we are picking, we are going a little bit out on a limb. There are 2 home dogs that both played very well last week as huge underdogs. Both teams had opportunities to win outright but didn’t.

The Bears showed what they are made of last week, by beating the Steelers as we said they must. Seattle is in big trouble with the possible loss of Matt Hasselbeck with cracked ribs.

There were some tough losses last weeks for teams, but none tougher for bettors than the people that had Chicago +5. Chicago was up by 2 points with Green Bay driving for a possible winning field goal.

Despite a 7-9 record last year (7-9 AGAINST THE SPREAD), the Buffalo Bills actually have reason to be optimistic heading into the 2009 season

Stop thinking about rain by itself as a bad weather indicator. Look at the mix of wind, turf quality, and precipitation. It's the mix that matters, not one third of the mix.

Bettors no longer have to look at mere sides and/or game totals to strike it rich as mostly all the online sports books (and many Las Vegas) outlets provide first and second half wagering lines along with quarter by quarter prices too on football betting.