{"id":156280,"date":"2025-09-14T13:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T13:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/156280\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T13:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T13:51:08","slug":"chicago-bears-at-detroit-lions-predictions-expert-picks-for-nfl-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/156280\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Bears at Detroit Lions predictions: Expert picks for NFL Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Detroit Lions head back to Ford Field for their home opener against the Chicago Bears on Sunday afternoon. Both teams are coming off losses to NFC North rivals and are looking to avoid starting the season 0-2 and digging themselves into a hole. The Lions aren\u2019t just playing the Bears, but former offensive coordinator, now Bears head coach, Ben Johnson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cBen\u2019s my friend. He\u2019s always going to be my friend. Nothing about that\u2019s going to change,\u201d said Lions head coach Dan Campbell. \u201cWe\u2019re going in, getting ready to play Chicago. We\u2019re going to win this game. We have to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here\u2019s a look at our Pride of Detroit staff picks for the Lions in Week 2:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now, it\u2019s your turn to have your voice heard. Share what you think the game score will be in the comment section at the bottom of the page and vote in the poll directly below. Do you think the Lions can rebound to get their first win of the year, or will the Bears and Johnson take the joy out of Detroit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Lions head back to Ford Field for their home opener against the Chicago Bears on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[83641,5192,83642,99],"class_list":["post-156280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-detroit-lions-gambling-odds","tag-detroit-lions-opinion","tag-nfl-picks","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}