After a Week 6 loss to the Washington Commanders, the Chicago Bears might be again in entrance of a nationwide viewers after they play the New England Patriots on “Monday Night time Soccer.”
Barring an unexpected flex sport, this would be the Bears’ closing prime-time sport of the season and one other probability to indicate progress. Within the lead-up to Monday night time’s sport, listed here are a dozen eye-catching info and figures.
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Bears-Patriots. Jan. 26, 1986. You understand what it's.
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Profession teaching victories for Invoice Belichick, together with the postseason, throughout his 23 seasons with the Patriots and 6 with the Cleveland Browns. The Patriots’ 38-15 victory over the Browns on Sunday moved Belichick right into a tie for second on the NFL’s all-time wins checklist with Bears legend George Halas. Don Shula holds the all-time victories file — common season plus playoffs — with 347. Halas nonetheless holds the excellence of successful probably the most regular-season video games with one franchise with 318. Belichick has received 257 regular-season video games with the Patriots.
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Video games began by Justin Fields — 10 as a rookie in 2021 and 6 this season. Fields’ profession numbers (which embody a cameo in opposition to the Los Angeles Rams and a aid look in opposition to the Cincinnati Bengals final season): 57.7% completion charge, 2,739 passing yards, 11 landing passes, 15 interceptions, 59 sacks and a 73.1 passer ranking. Fields additionally has 702 speeding yards and three landing runs and has fumbled 19 occasions, dropping six.
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Passing yards by Patriots quarterback Mac Jones in his first 16 begins, all as a rookie final season. Jones was the No. 15 choice in 2021, taken 4 picks after the Bears traded up for Fields. His numbers over his first 16 begins: 67.7% completion charge, 3,540 passing yards, 21 landing passes, 12 interceptions, 26 sacks and a 92.5 passer ranking. He additionally had 125 speeding yards and fumbled six occasions, dropping two. (Jones made 17 begins final season and has made three this season.) It stays to be seen whether or not Jones will return to his beginning function this week after recovering from a excessive ankle sprain or whether or not the Patriots will proceed to experience with rookie Bailey Zappe, a fourth-round select of Western Kentucky who has been spectacular in three appearances.
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Common factors scored by the Bears in Fields’ 16 profession begins. The Bears have topped 23 factors solely thrice and have been held under 10 4 occasions, together with final week’s 12-7 house loss to the Commanders.
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Completions per possession by the Bears offense via six video games. We promised a recurring replace on this statistic — no less than till the Bears might push the quantity north of 1.0. During the last two video games, with 29 completions in 18 possessions, the Bears have made progress on this division. However the struggles within the passing sport persist. The Bears’ 122.8 web passing yards per sport ranks final within the NFL. Their 4 landing passes via six video games is tied for final with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Carolina Panthers.
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Beginning quarterbacks utilized by the Patriots within the first six video games. Jones began the primary three, Brian Hoyer jumped in to start out Week 4 and Zappe has began the final two weeks. For comparability, throughout Tom Brady’s 20 seasons in New England, the Patriots used 5 beginning quarterbacks whole: Brady (283 video games), Drew Bledsoe (18), Matt Cassel (15), Jimmy Garoppolo (two) and Jacoby Brissett (two).
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Size of Khalil Herbert’s second-quarter run final week, the longest of his profession and the longest play of the Bears season so far. Herbert has 5 runs this season of no less than 15 yards. His 6.4 yards per carry ranks first within the NFL amongst working backs with no less than 40 speeding makes an attempt.
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Tackles this season by Bears linebacker Roquan Smith, which is tied for the NFL lead with Indianapolis Colts linebacker Zaire Franklin. Smith was credited with a game-high 12 tackles in opposition to the Commanders and recorded a first-half sack of Carson Wentz. Smith has 15½ profession sacks.
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The Bears’ file of their final 25 appearances on “Monday Night time Soccer,” relationship to December 2007. That does, nevertheless, embody an lively four-game skid. The Bears misplaced twice on Monday night time final season, falling 29-27 in Pittsburgh in Week 9 and 17-9 at house to the Minnesota Vikings six weeks later.
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Yr of the Bears’ final victory over the Patriots, a 24-17 win at Soldier Area. Working again James Allen scored two second-half touchdowns and the Bears protection held Bledsoe and the Patriots to 245 whole yards. The Patriots have received the final 5 conferences by a median rating of 35-21.
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Factors scored by the Patriots throughout a 57-second stretch of the groups’ final regular-season assembly at Gillette Stadium. That was a part of a 51-23 blowout in Week 8 of 2014. After Brady hit Rob Gronkowski for a 2-yard landing cross with 1:52 remaining earlier than halftime, the Bears went three-and-out, then gave up a 42-yard punt return to Julian Edelman. Brady threw one other landing cross — 9 yards to Brandon LaFell — on the primary snap of the following possession. And after a touchback on the following kickoff, Jay Cutler was sacked and stripped on the following snap, with Rob Ninkovich returning Cutler’s fumble 15 yards for an additional landing.
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