2005 Record 16-6
2006 Record 17-13
The Bears are playing on the road Monday night laying 10 1/2. Their season so far has been made up of blowing out weak teams at home(except Seattle). I even heard talk this week of how they would go undefeated! Let's not get too excited here. The Bears are good, but we can't expect them to keep up this pace.
The Bears have played 2 away games so far, one they almost dropped to the Vikes and an opening day bashing of lowly Green Bay. The Bears are coming off a huge blowout of Buffalo that no doubt caught the awareness of many squares. Arizona meanwhile dropped a tight one to an improving Chiefs team that mashed SF 2 weeks ago. Arizona playing in their new stadium on Monday night will have the crowd working in their favor. A star will also be born Monday when Matt Leinart steps it up and keeps Arizona in the game. I expect Chicago to underestimate Arizona while they look ahead to their bye in 2 weeks. The public will be all over the Bears in this one and the line will likely climb. A late play on Arizona could get you +13 or + 14. This will be too much for the Bears to cover and they could possibly even lose this game outright.
Arizona +10 1/2(but wait until game time to get a better line)
Chi 20 AZ 19
