Bills vs. Bears Point Spread: NFL Preseason Week 2 Odds, Prediction
It’s not clear if Bills star quarterback Josh Allen will take the field for Buffalo’s Week 2 pre-season game at the Chicago Bears on Saturday afternoon. The Bears are 4.5-point favourites on the NFL odds with a total of 38.5.
NFL Point Spread and Betting Analysis
This is Chicago’s final home game (it visits Tennessee in the final week of the pre-season) until Week 2 of the regular season against Cincinnati – we expect the Bears to be 0-1 entering that one as they are 7-point underdogs for Week 1 at the LA Rams. Buffalo has yet to play a home game.
These franchises have split their past six pre-season games both straight up and against the spread and haven’t played since a 28-27 Bills win in Chicago in 2018. Their last regular-season matchup was also in 2018 but in Buffalo and the Bears slaughtered the Bills 41-9. Buffalo is a lot better now and, frankly, the Bears worse.
Chicago is 4-6 all-time in the pre-season under Coach Matt Nagy, while Buffalo is 8-5 under Sean McDermott.
Buffalo Bills
Superstar quarterback Josh Allen was told well ahead of pre-season Week 1 that he (and several other starters) would not be playing, and as of this writing Coach Sean McDermott hasn’t revealed his plan for Week 2. That the Bills are such sizable underdogs, at least for an exhibition game, hints that oddsmakers don’t believe Allen will play. We know that Pro Bowl receiver Stefon Diggs won’t as he’s dealing with an injury. Buffalo did win without those two in Week 1, 16-15 at Detroit.
Backup QB Mitchell Trubisky, the former No. 2 overall pick and bust by the Bears, barely played himself. We think he will get more action in this one for obvious reasons. Third-string QB Jake Fromm led an 11-play, 55-yard drive which resulted in a 44-yard Tyler Bass field goal with 1:23 remaining to beat Detroit. That was the first-ever action for the former Georgia QB, a 2020 fifth-round pick.
Chicago Bears
Bears fans already want Coach Matt Nagy to name rookie No. 11 overall pick Justin Fields as the regular-season starter, but Nagy continues to say it’s veteran Andy Dalton. Chicago’s first-team offence did nothing in Week 1 of the pre-season vs. Miami, a 20-13 win, and Dalton was just 2-for-4 for 18 yards in two series. Fields, meanwhile, was 14-for-20 for 142 yards and a TD and rushed for a score. Yet, Nagy says Dalton will start again and actually wants him to play a bit more – yet also get Fields more time with the first-team offence vs. the opponents’ first-team defence. Thus, they could rotate a bit.
Chicago is really thin on the offensive line with injuries to Teven Jenkins (2021 second-round pick), Germain Ifedi and James Daniels – all projected starters.
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