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2021 NFL Playoff | Chicago Bears vs. New Orleans Saints Predictions & Picks | Wild Card Weekend

WILDCARD WEEKEND! Chicago Bears vs. New Orleans Saints preview + ATS picks. Rachael van Oranje and Jeff Reinebold preview this matchup and give us their ATS + O/U picks and best bets for this NFL matchup! The Saints are 10 point favorites. What do you like in this matchup? Let us know! The official https://www.pickswise.com/ picks: POINT SPREAD PICK The New Orleans Saints will host the Chicago Bears for the penultimate game of wild card weekend. Besides being the first NFL playoff game to be televised on Nickelodeon, it’s interesting for a few reasons. For starters, it has the largest spread of any playoff game, now cracking double digits. I don’t think the Bears will pull off the upset, but I do think this spread is a touch high. The Saints closed their season with two impressive wins, but they came against rapidly unraveling Panthers and Vikings teams. Right before that, they had lost two in a row, including an ugly game to the lowly Eagles. The Bears finished the season playing their best ball, and I don’t have much confidence in Drew Brees against Khalil Mack and company. These teams played earlier this season and the Bears only lost by three in overtime, and that was when Chicago was in the middle of a six-game losing streak. That was also when Nick Foles was still under center, and the offense has looked much better now that Mitchell Trubisky has been re-inserted. It’s also worth noting the Saints are 0-4 against the spread in their last four home playoff games. GAME TOTALS PICK I also like the under in this spot. Brees’ arm is pretty much cooked at this point, and he relies entirely on the cerebral part of his game which I don’t think will be quite as effective in a playoff environment. There’s a lot of uncertainty with this Saints offense with Alvin Kamara set to return from COVID, while Michael Thomas has barely played this season. Both teams are in the top nine in yards per carry allowed, so don’t expect either ground game to have much success. Trubisky’s resurgence came mostly against very weak defenses like the Texans, Vikings, and Jaguars, and needless to say, this is a huge step up in competition for him. New Orleans has arguably the league’s best defense, so I certainly don’t see this one turning into a shootout. Once Trubisky had to play a real team this past week he came crashing down to earth against the Packers, and Chicago produced only 16 points.