Seattle Seahawks at Chicago Bears betting tips and NFL predictions: Seahawks can keep playoff hopes alive

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Seattle Seahawks at Chicago Bears best bet

Seattle Seahawks -3.5
2pts 10-11 general

Seattle Seahawks at Chicago Bears predictions

Back-to-back defeats against the Packers and Vikings have dropped the Seattle Seahawks to the back of the queue to make the NFC playoffs as a wildcard team, but they can keep hope alive with a victory in Chicago on Thursday night.

Despite falling to 8-7 with those results, the Seahawks have been playing pretty well. They went down by only two points against the 13-2 Vikings on Sunday in a game that went down to the wire and they had won four successive games before that. The Bears defence struggle against the run, giving up 134.1 yards per game and 4.7 yards per attempt, so a fit-again Kenneth Walker III and Zach Charbonnet could be in for plenty of success.

The Bears won four of their first six games this season but very little has gone right since and after firing head coach Matt Eberflus they are now on a nine-game losing streak and their season is over at 4-11. Their last three losses have been by 25, 18 and 17 points and offensive line injuries have given rookie quarterback Caleb Williams little chance of turning things around.

Veteran wide receiver Keenan Allen had his best game for Chicago in the 34-17 home defeat by the Lions last week with nine receptions for 141 yards, but they don't have much else going for them on offence. 

The Bears defend the pass well enough, but they will have to be on their game against the visitors' talented WR trio of DK Metcalf, Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Tyler Lockett and Mike Macdonald's Seahawks should keep themselves in the playoff picture with a relatively comfortable away win.

The lowdown

Venue Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois
Surface Grass
Weather Rain, 5C
Vegas line Bears +3.5
Points line 43.5

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