Chicago @ Las Vegas
Team Totals: Raiders 24.5, Bears 19.5
Overwhelmed Bears coach Matt Nagy relinquished playcalling duties to OC Bill Lazor ahead of Week 4’s meeting with Detroit, and the change in on-field product was colossal. Whereas Nagy’s ball-out-quick Week 3 game plan deleted Justin Fields’ top-two strengths — precision vertical passing and dual-threat playmaking — Lazor highlighted the former with a lofty 13.6-yard aDOT featuring deep drops, play action, and max protections. It wasn’t a useful fantasy performance because Fields still isn’t running enough, and each of Chicago’s three TDs were scored on the ground by running backs, but the step forward was major and promising, and big box-score games are on the way. Finally anointed the Bears’ “QB1” by Nagy on Wednesday, I’m approaching Fields as an entirely boom-bust Week 5 bet. From a matchup standpoint, I’m worried about the line-of-scrimmage advantage the Raiders have in explosive EDGE rushers Maxx Crosby and Yannick Ngakoue against Bears OTs Jason Peters and Germain Ifedi.
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