The Buffalo Bills climbed back to the .500 mark with a 17-12 home win over the Minnesota Vikings last week. To surpass that mark this weekend, they’ll have to do what no other team has been able to do this season to beat the Chicago Bears.

The Bears trampled the Seattle Seahawks in Sunday night’s game last week getting two touchdown passes from Rex Grossman and two touchdown runs from Thomas Jones in a 37-6 win. Chicago easily covered the gap at home to Seattle and is now 3-1 against ATS gap on the season.

Buffalo is also 3-1 ATS in 2006 thanks to its win over Minnesota last week. Bills quarterback JP Losman completed 23 of 32 passes for 222 yards against the Vikings with one touchdown and no interceptions. Willis McGahee ran in to score for Buffalo and Peerless Price had the teams catch TDs.

To improve on that ATS mark today, the Bills need to keep scoring close. Bettors at Pinnacle Sports have the undefeated Bears rated as big 11.5 points +106 betting $100 to win the $106 local favorites for the 1:00 pm ET contest against Buffalo. The Bears are 2-0 ATS at home this season and 3-1 ATS as favorites. The Bills are 2-0 ATS on the road in 2006 and 2-0 ATS as underdogs.

The total for Sunday’s game currently stands at 34 points. The combined score from last week’s Bills/Vikings game fell UNDER the posted total and Buffalo is 1-3 OVER/UNDER on the season. Chicago is 2-1-1 OU in 2006 and the Bears almost single-handedly cashed in the OVER against the Seahawks.

The last time Buffalo and Chicago met in September 2002, the Bills posted a 33-27 home win as 3-point favorites. The combined score from that contest exceeded the total days posted. The Bears haven’t beaten the Bills since December 1997 when they posted a 20-3 home win as 1-point underdogs. And then there were three

You expect this perfect disco material from Indianapolis. It seems Peyton Manning and his Colts ride off to a 5-0 or 10-0 start every season and make headlines every time.

But the bears? Or the Ravens?

Only three teams that went into Week 4 undefeated survived the weekend. Two Super Bowl contenders were humiliated last week when the defending NFC champion Seahawks were routed 37-6 in Chicago while the Bengals were beaten 3-0 at home by the Patriots.

If you listen carefully, you can hear the first whispers of a Chicago-Indy Super Bowl. And of the three undefeated teams that survive, they appear to be the best bets to stay that way through Week 5, while the surprising Ravens who finished the Chargers 2-0 at home have a tough job in Denver.

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Offering up to 60% higher odds on NFL teams than other bookies, the bookies at Pinnacle Sports list Indianapolis as an unbelievable 18.5 point +102 favorite at home to winless Tennessee. , while the Bears quickly went from -8 to -11.5 +106 favorites at Pinnacle Sports to handle the bills.

Meanwhile, the Ravens opened as 3.5 points -101 bet $101 to win a $100 underdog against the 2-1 Broncos coming off a bye week. Denver is 5-1 ATS in its last six at home with the extra week off.

While the teams at the top of the NFL food chain are changing, the same old teams provide a steady diet of wins at the bottom.

Tennessee Oakland and Detroit join Tampa Bay as the only winless teams, while the 49ers and Cardinals both 1-3 have done little to shake their reputation as perennial underdogs.

The Cardinals are 0-4 ATS punishing fans and punters who bought into the initial hype that this year would be different in the desert. It looks exactly the same in Arizona, except for one significant change: The Matt Leinart Era begins much earlier than expected.

A 1-3 start and some lousy play from starter Kurt Warner has forced a trade under center. The Cardinals host Kansas City, which beat San Francisco 41-0 last week, and look to make it two in a row. Bettors at Pinnacle Sports opened the Chiefs as 2.5-point favorites in the desert, but it moved to -3 -123 after KC invested a lot of money early on.

At the Meadowlands, a fierce division rivalry between the suddenly explosive Redskins and the rested Giants is renewed with New York coming off a bye week where they are 14-5 ATS in the last 19 games after bye. Washington hopes the rejuvenated tandem of Mark Brunell and Santana Moss will do more damage after hitting three runs in last Sunday’s win over the Jags.

The Giants are 1-2 but deserve to be 0-3. To be fair, they’ve played three top-tier teams in Philadelphia, Seattle and Indy, but they can’t afford to lose division games. Realizing this, bettors jumped all the way down the line to -3, quickly taking it to Giants -4 -109.

In Miami, the presumed Super Bowl contending Dolphins join Carolina as the only other teams to go 0-4 ATS. The Dolphins might be headed for a 1-4 start, but they get ten points from Pinnacle Sports bettors who believe if they can’t beat Houston, they can’t beat New England either. The Patriots are listed as -10 +103 favorites to cover.

If you subscribe to the Disappointment Theory, the Patriots may be in for one after a complete victory on the road in Cincinnati. You could further the theory by believing the Dolphins bottomed out in Houston and will bounce back against an enemy division.

However, Miami’s offense has been terrible with Daunte Culpepper proving to be the next Jay Fielder instead of the second coming of Dan Marino and Ronnie Brown struggling on the ground.

In Jacksonville, the Jaguars have covered four straight meetings with the Jets. But are these two teams going in opposite directions?

New York has won twice as an underdog on the road this season, while losing tough games at home to New England and Indy. Can they tear the Jaguars apart and send them to a third straight loss? The Jets opened as touchdown dogs and will have to make the most of their time on offense if Jacksonville’s ball-grabbing continues. Jags quarterback Byron Leftwich and the offense have averaged 36 minutes of possession time in two home games, a lead the Jets will need to counter. Pinnacle Sports lists the Jaguars as -7 -104 favorites for the tie at Jacksonville.

The contenders are distancing themselves from the contenders in early 2006.