{"id":685815,"date":"2026-01-18T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/685815\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T05:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T05:00:20","slug":"nfl-fans-are-picking-the-rams-to-beat-the-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/685815\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL fans are picking the Rams to beat the Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We didn\u2019t have a Chicago Bears-specific Reacts survey question here at Windy City Gridiron this week, but the national set of survey questions that SB Nation emailed out \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsurvey.co.uk\/s\/EFIUQ7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sign up here<\/a> to participate \u2014 asked fans to pick the winners in this weekend\u2019s games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I\u2019m not surprised by the results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Los Angeles Rams had more wins in the regular season, finishing at (12-5) and second place in the tough NFC West, and they were number two overall in DVOA for the regular season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Even though the game is in Chicago, the Rams have been favored all week by the oddsmakers. They have the number one offense in terms of points and yards, and, defensively, their 47 sacks are tied for seventh-most in the NFL, and they are fifth in defensive takeaways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Since Sean McVay took over as head coach nine years ago, the Rams have been in the postseason seven times, with two Super Bowl appearances and one Lombardi Trophy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So, again, not surprisd at all by the public going with the more known entity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On paper, the Rams should win, but on Soldier Field, and on any given Sunday, it\u2019s anyone\u2019s game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We didn\u2019t have a Chicago Bears-specific Reacts survey question here at Windy City Gridiron this week, but the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,692,391,7766,2493,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-685815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-bears","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-bears","11":"tag-chicago-bears-game-information","12":"tag-chicagobears","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115914344198116092","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}