Hey everyone, I'm JJ Stankovits and welcome in to another edition of the Under Center podcast, brought to you by St. Xavier University.

On this episode, I'm joined by Cam Ellis to look ahead to the Bears game against the Minnesota Vikings on Monday night in which the bears are home underdogs to a team with a worse record than them. We get into that and more. of the

We're on the Undercings on Monday night in which the Bears are home underdogs to a team with a worse record than them. We get into that and more on the Under Center podcast starting right now.

What does it mean to be a Chicago bear? It means rich tradition, black and blue division, defense.

I think it's the one franchise that when you think about them, being a defensive player

myself, I think that's the first thing you go to.

Legends, linebackers, defensive linemen, dominant players.

The history of it. I mean, I'm a big history guy, so understanding this was one of the first

franchise is just kind of blows my mind, honestly.

I was able to be a part of that.

Yeah, what more can you say?

All right, Cam, the bears are two and a half point underdogs to the Minnesota Vikings.

This is from our betting partner Points Bet Sportsbook.

It's been pretty consistent ever since the Bears on Sunday lost to the Titans.

This game opened with the Bears being two and a half point underdogs.

It has stayed that way all week.

There has not been much movement on this line. And on the surface, you look at it, Cam, and you say, well, the Vikings are three and five. The bears are

five and four. Yeah, the bears have lost three in a row. They got to be better than the Vikings,

right? But that's not really the case. If you look at the two directions, these teams are going. The Vikings are

trending up and the bears are, as everyone knows, trending down. And here's the kind of the real

rub cam. Football outsiders, DVOA, it's their efficiency measure that I kind of take as the best way to rank teams by their strength

in a given season.

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