FanDuel Sportsbooks<\/a> has the 49ers as 3-point favorites, with the total set at 52.5. That\u2019s the highest total the 49ers have had since I can remember, and three points higher than Week 10 against the Los Angeles Rams. This game could very well be played in the 60s.<\/p>\nThe matchup is not a good one for the 49ers\u2019 defense. What many thought Jonathan Taylor and the Colts\u2019 rushing attack would do last week is what the Bears\u2019 offense will do this week. The Niners\u2019 defense ranks in the bottom 2 in rushing success rate, while Chicago ranks second in the same statistic.<\/p>\n
The Bears\u2019 ground game should open up 1-on-1 opportunities, screens, and play-action shots for Caleb Williams to take advantage of. Williams can also scramble, which is something Robert Saleh hasn\u2019t had to deal with in a couple of months.<\/p>\n
If it\u2019s not a favorable matchup for the 49ers, it\u2019s an awful one for a Bears defense that was on the field for 39 minutes against Malik Willis and the Green Bay Packers last week. On the surface, EPA per-play would indicate the Bears have the 12th-best defense in the NFL.<\/p>\n
This team has had the ball bounce their way more times than any in the league. The Bears are first in interceptions per game and second in fumbles per game. Filtering out turnovers, Chicago drops to a bottom-five defense in EPA per play.<\/p>\n
Since Brock Purdy returned from injury, the Niners are second in EPA per play. On the season, they\u2019ve allowed the fewest sacks, while Chicago is 26th. The Bears are a defense that struggles to stop the run, which is a big no-no against a Kyle Shanahan offense.<\/p>\n
The Bears could certainly luckbox their way into another victory. It seems like they\u2019ve defied the odds and done so all year, but I\u2019d expect the team that needed an onside kick and a quarterback injury to win last week against their heated rival to have a bit of a letdown on the road after clinching a playoff berth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The betting market has no idea what to do with the San Francisco 49ers this season. Last week,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,51924,53546,30054,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-108864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-49ers-analysis","tag-san-francisco-49ers-odds","tag-san-francisco-49ers-schedule","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}