How about the Chicago Bears? Entering this week with a 4-8 record, the Bears are a late meltdown against the Bears in Detroit in Week 11 away from winning four straight games after avenging that divisional loss with a dominant win over the Lions on Sunday. And it's the defense that's been the most impressive part of the Bears' recent hot run, as that unit put together another strong effort in Week 14 by holding the Lions to 4.2 yards per play and winning the turnover battle 3-0.

I've been hesitant to move the Bears too far up in my power ratings over the last few weeks, but I rectified that after the impressive win. I now have the Bears as a dead average team at this point of the season, equal to the Rams, who nearly pulled off what would have been an impressive upset win over the Ravens in Baltimore, and the Packers, who have yet to play with their game scheduled for Monday. What that means is that I'd make a game between any of those three teams on a neutral field a pick 'em right now.

I also made plenty of other power ratings adjustments to get an idea of where I would set the spread for each Week 14 game. You can see all of my early projected spreads below, which is designed to help you attack the Week 15 opening lines later today.  We'll run our full look at power ratings and official spread projections on Tuesday here at SportsLine.

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