Seattle Seahawks vs Chicago Bears Free Monday Night Football Pick, 9–17–2018

Free NFL Pick by Richard Hartline of Precision Picks

Seattle Seahawks vs Chicago Bears

Line: Bears -4.5, 43
Game Time: Monday, September 17th, 8:15 PM

The Chicago Bears and the Seattle Seahawks each dropped their 2018 season openers, but they both had chances to win their games. The winner of Monday night’s game will climb even at 1–1, while the loser limps to 0–2 and has their postseason odds plummet. In the last nine years, teams that started 0–2 only made the playoffs 5.6% of the time (6-of-108).

Seattle took a tough 27–24 opening week defeat against the Denver Broncos on Sunday, but perhaps more concerning for this team was the loss of star wide receiver Doug Baldwin. The Seahawks already lack offensive weapons so the loss of Baldwin will remove a 1000 yard receiver from the field.

The Bears built a 20 point lead over the Green Bay Packers in their season opener and Khalil Mack was a dominant force in the first half of the game. However, Aaron Rodgers came back in the second half and outscored the Bears 24–6 in the second half en route to a narrow 24–23 defeat. Even with the loss, Chicago showed they should take a big step forward this season to compete in the NFC North and second-year QB Mitchell Trubisky is beginning to look like an NFL quarterback.

Seattle is 8–3–1 ATS in their last 12 Monday games but 1–3–1 ATS in their last 5 games overall. The Bears are 6–2 ATS in their last 8 Monday games and 9–3–1 ATS in their last 13 home games. Head to head, the Over is 6–0 in the last 6 meetings in Chicago and 8–1 in the last 9 meetings.

I think the play in this Monday Night Football game is the Over 43. Both teams are 1–0 on the O/U on the season and they have gone Over the Total in eight of the last nine meetings. I think tonight’s Total is a little low and I recommend taking the Over 43.

Seattle Seahawks vs Chicago Bears Pick: OVER 43