Chicago Bears 2022 Regular Season Wins Total Preview and Prediction

Chicago Bears Regular Season Wins Total Under 6.5 -120 (BET365)

Chicago Bears 2022 Betting Odds

The Bears were 6-11 straight up, and 6-11 against the spread last season. The bookmakers are not expecting any significant improvement here in 2022. The offensive line was a disaster last season, and they come into 2022 with one of the lowest offensive line rankings in the league. In fact only Seattle is projected to be worse on the offensive line than the Bad News Bears. Normally a team coming off a losing season looks to improve through the draft, but the Bears didn’t even have a first round pick this year due to the trade with the Giants that allowed them to move up and draft Justin Fields.

30th Ranked Passing Offense

The Bears couldn’t get anything going on offense last year, and things look bleak when you look at who their quarterbacks are. Justin Fields is expected to start, with Trevor Siemian and Nathan Peterman backing him up. To say that Fields struggled last season would be an understatement.

He threw for 1,870 yards with 7 TDs and 10 INTs while completing just 58 percent of his passes. He was sacked 36 times despite playing in just 12 games. The Bears were 3-9 with Fields at quarterback, and they were 3-3 when Andy Dalton or Nick Foles started at quarterback. You would have to think that their quarterback depth looks a little shaky for a team that doesn’t have an established starter.

Soft Schedule?

Bears fans looking for reasons to be optimistic might point to what is projected to be one of the league’s softest schedules. While it’s true that the Bears will face a lot of teams that struggled in 2021, many of those teams have made improvements via trade or the draft. The Bears on the other hand don’t look any better on paper than they did a year ago.

Two of Chicago’s wins last season came against the Detroit Lions, but the Lions should be a lot better this season. When you look up and down the schedule, there isn’t a lot of spots where you would expect Chicago to be a favorite. Aside from a Week 3 home game against the Texans, there don’t appear to be any other other games that you can pencil in as a “W”.

New Coach

Matt Eberflus was hired to replace Matt Nagy in the off-season. Nagy and GM Ryan Pace were fired following a disappointing 2021 season. Eberflus comes over from the Colts, where he was the defensive coordinator for the last four seasons. Under Eberflus, Indianapolis was the only NFL team to be ranked in the top-10 in scoring defense, run defense and takeaways each of the past two seasons.

He’s likely to be an upgrade after the clown show that Nagy put on last year, but there are still more questions than answers. Can Justin Fields be a bonafide star at the NFL level? Can anyone be asked to succeed behind this offensive line? What happens if Fields gets hurt and you have to turn the offense over to Siemian and Peterman?

Projected record: 5-12 Overall

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