Monday Night Football: Bears (5-2) at Seahawks (4-3) Closes Week 8 Tonight in Seattle, 8:15 p.m. Eastern on ESPN

One game is left in Week 8, and it is a good one. The Chicago Bears (5-2) visit the Seattle Seahawks (4-3) on Monday Night Football tonight at Lumen Field in Seattle, with kickoff at 8:15 p.m. Eastern on ESPN - the schedule as listed by the NFL and carried in the listings opened and read directly by the desk this run.

Seattle defends its home field as the defending Super Bowl champion, and its defense faces its toughest test of the season tonight, according to the day's sports schedule coverage read by the desk: Chicago's rushing attack arrives at Lumen Field as the matchup the game turns on. The Seahawks recently handed the previously unbeaten Kansas City Chiefs their first loss of the season, a result that reset expectations for this team a week before Denver took over the AFC West lead on Sunday night (the desk's SQ-20261102-002).

For Chicago, a win keeps the Bears level with the league's best records through eight weeks and gives them a road win over the defending champions; for Seattle, a win pulls the Seahawks even with Chicago at 5-3 and keeps pace in the NFC West. The Bears' ground game against Seattle's defense is the contest the schedule coverage singles out - Seattle's defense is expected to dictate the pace if the Seahawks are to win at home.

Jacksonville's own Week 8 is already in the books - Sunday's 42-7 rout of Indianapolis (SQ-20261101-052) - and the Jaguars' week now runs through Baltimore on Thursday night. Tonight's game is the league's last word before Election Day, and the desk will carry its final in the next production cycle if it lands inside the game-night window.