Properly, properly, properly. Take a look at what we now have right here. The Chicago Bears are tied for the NFC North lead with the Minnesota Vikings at 1-0 whereas the reigning division champion Inexperienced Bay Packers and four-time MVP Aaron Rodgers are trying up from their 0-1 gap.
Immediately, a prime-time Week 2 matchup between the Bears and Packers has an added degree of intrigue. Within the lead-up to Sunday’s sport at Lambeau Subject, listed below are a handful of eye-catching details and figures.
23-7
The rating of the Packers’ Week 1 street loss to the Vikings, a sport through which their offense dedicated two turnovers, allowed 4 sacks, went 3-for-9 on third down and scored solely as soon as on three journeys to the pink zone. It was a uneven effort that left coach Matt LaFleur feeling like his crew seemed unprepared.
38-3
The rating of the Packers’ season-opening loss to the New Orleans Saints final season in a sport moved to a impartial website in Jacksonville, Fla., after Hurricane Ida hit New Orleans. Rodgers and the Packers rebounded the subsequent week, nonetheless, with a 35-17 prime-time victory over the Detroit Lions at Lambeau. In that bounce-back win, the Packers scored touchdowns on 5 of their first seven possessions.
4-0
Packers file in Week 2 video games with Rodgers as their starter after dropping their opener. The common margin of victory in these video games was 14 factors. Rodgers’ common stat line: 26-for-36, 325 yards, three touchdowns and a 125 passer ranking. He additionally threw just one interception in these 4 video games.
16-3
Rodgers’ file in begins towards the Bears over the past 10 seasons, together with an lively six-game profitable streak. Rodgers has a well-documented 23-5 file towards the Bears since changing into the Packers beginning quarterback in 2008. That features a 21-14 victory within the NFC championship sport in January 2011. Bears coach Matt Eberflus will get his first crack at toppling Rodgers on Sunday night time. His three predecessors — Matt Nagy, John Fox and Marc Trestman — all managed to beat Rodgers and the Packers of their first seasons in Chicago. Nagy, although, was 1-7 total towards Rodgers. Fox was 1-4. Trestman was 1-3. Lovie Smith went 2-9.
120
Receiving yards by the Packers receiving corps in Sunday’s loss to the Vikings. That manufacturing got here on 16 targets and 12 receptions. The Packers have been with out No. 1 receiver Allen Lazard, who missed the sport with an ankle harm and remained restricted throughout observe Wednesday. The crew is also adjusting to the absence of Davante Adams, who was traded to the Las Vegas Raiders in March. In Week 1, rookie Romeo Doubs led all Packers receivers with 37 yards.
141
Receiving yards by Adams in his debut with the Raiders in a 24-19 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers. That manufacturing got here on 17 targets and 10 catches, together with a 3-yard landing reception from Derek Carr within the fourth quarter. It’s a small pattern dimension, nevertheless it left many across the league questioning if will probably be far simpler for Adams to transition to life with out Rodgers than will probably be for Rodgers to regulate to life with out Adams.
2
Landing passes thrown by Bears quarterback Justin Fields in Sunday’s 19-10 upset of the San Francisco 49ers, marking simply the second time in 11 profession begins that Fields has thrown a number of TDs in a sport. The one different time he had carried out so was in Week 13 of final season in a 45-30 Bears loss to the Packers.
0
Landing passes thrown by Rodgers within the Packers’ Week 1 loss. It was simply the twelfth time in Rodgers’ final 100 regular-season begins he didn’t have a TD move. Rodgers was additionally held under 200 passing yards. Notably, he additionally went with no landing move within the Packers’ 13-10 postseason loss to the 49ers in January. So he has gone 21 consecutive drives and 63 passes, together with the playoffs, since his final TD toss, which was a 29-yarder to Lazard within the first half of the 2021 regular-season finale.
204
Whole yardage by the Bears in Week 1, the bottom complete of any crew in its season opener this season and 39 yards behind the defending Tremendous Bowl champion Rams, who sputtered of their 31-10 loss to the Buffalo Payments and ranked thirty first in Week 1. The Packers, in the meantime, rank nineteenth in complete offense after posting 338 yards towards the Vikings. The Colts lead the league in after amassing 517 yards of their comeback to tie the Houston Texans.
6-3-1
Report in Week 1 of groups with a brand new head coach in 2022. The Bears have been one of many six victors, pulling an upset in Matt Eberflus’ debut at Soldier Subject. The opposite winners have been Kevin O’Connell of the Vikings, Brian Daboll of the New York Giants, Mike McDaniel of the Miami Dolphins, Dennis Allen of the Saints and Todd Bowles of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Jacksonville Jaguars’ Doug Pederson, Las Vegas Raiders’ Josh McDaniels and Denver Broncos’ Nathaniel Hackett all misplaced their openers whereas former Bears coach Lovie Smith helped his Texans to a 20-20 tie with the Colts.
10-4
The Bears’ file in September for the reason that begin of 2018, together with the win over the 49ers. Quick begins are nothing new to the Bears, who've been at .500 or above after eight video games 11 occasions within the final 21 seasons. The crew, nonetheless, has had a dropping file in its closing eight contests 12 occasions in that span.
34-20
Common rating of the final 5 Bears-Packers video games performed in prime time at Lambeau Subject, all Bears losses. The Bears additionally misplaced the kickoff sport of the NFL’s a hundredth season in prime time at Soldier Subject in Week 1 of 2019 by a rating of 10-3. They haven’t crushed the Packers in a street night time sport since a 17-13 triumph on Thanksgiving in 2015.
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