Glad holidays, Chicago! Now bundle up.
Saturday’s Christmas Eve contest between the Chicago Bears and Buffalo Payments at Soldier Subject guarantees to be chilly and blustery. The wintry situations will take a look at the 3-11 Bears and their Tremendous Bowl-contending guests from upstate New York.
Listed here are a dozen eye-catching information and figures earlier than kickoff (midday, CBS).
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Projected day-time temperature in levels Fahrenheit for Saturday afternoon, in line with The Nationwide Climate Service. Winds of 25 miles per hour with gusts above 30 mph are additionally a part of the forecast, with the windchill dipping beneath minus-10. Bears coach Matt Eberflus famous Tuesday the coldest recreation he might bear in mind being a part of got here in December 2013 when he was the Dallas Cowboys linebackers coach. Dealing with the Bears. At Soldier Subject. The Bears received that Monday evening recreation 45-28 with a kickoff temperature of 8 levels and a minus-9 windchill.
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The Bears’ all-time file in video games performed on Christmas Eve. Of their most up-to-date contest in 2017, the Bears beat the Cleveland Browns 20-3 with working again Jordan Howard scoring two touchdowns and Mitch Trubisky including the exclamation level with a 4-yard TD run late.
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Speeding yards wanted by Bears quarterback Justin Fields to break Lamar Jackson’s single-season quarterback speeding file. Jackson had 1,206 yards throughout his MVP season in 2019. Fields would wish to common 69 speeding yards per contest over the ultimate three video games this season to interrupt it.
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Common speeding yards per recreation by Fields since Week 5. His 95 speeding yards in final week’s loss to the Philadelphia Eagles included a exceptional 39-yard scramble. Fields additionally has three landing runs this season of a minimum of 50 yards, setting a brand new NFL profession file for quarterbacks.
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Speeding yards wanted by the Bears over the ultimate three video games to succeed in 3,000 for the season. No Bears staff has ever rushed for that mark. Solely 4 groups within the Tremendous Bowl period have, together with the 2019 Baltimore Ravens who set the league-record with 3,296. The Bears, who presently common 186.9 speeding yards per recreation, would wish to common 128 speeding yards over the ultimate three contests to succeed in 3,000 — and 226.7 per recreation on common to set a brand new NFL file.
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Whole touchdowns accounted for by Payments QB Josh Allen throughout his NFL profession, tied for essentially the most by any participant in historical past over their first 5 seasons. Dan Marino additionally had 171 touchdowns for the Miami Dolphins from 1983-1987. In his profession, Allen has 133 landing passes, 37 TD rushes and a 12-yard TD catch (towards the Arizona Cardinals in 2020).
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Level differential posted by the Payments by way of 14 video games, tops within the AFC and trailing solely the Eagles (143). The Payments have 5 double-digit victories this season, together with a 41-7 pounding of the Tennessee Titans in Week 2, their most decisive victory to this point.
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Stefon Diggs’ NFL rank this season in catches, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns. Diggs has 99 receptions for 1,299 yards with 10 touchdowns. Solely Justin Jefferson (111 and 1,623) and Tyreek Hill (109 and 1,529) have extra catches and yards. Solely Travis Kelce and Davante Adams have extra receiving TDs with 12 every.
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Payments gamers chosen to the AFC Professional Bowl roster. Along with Allen and Diggs, the staff’s different honorees are security Jordan Poyer and middle Mitch Morse. The Bears, against this, have been shutout from the Professional Bowl, the primary time since 2017 they didn’t have a single participant named to the preliminary roster. The Eagles led all groups with eight Professional Bowl alternatives. Apart from the Bears, the one different staff shut out was the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Beginning offensive line mixtures utilized by the Bears this season. That quantity will develop to eight Saturday with guards Cody Whitehair and Teven Jenkins unlikely to play with knee and neck accidents, respectively. Whitehair, a staff captain, has began 105 video games throughout his seven-year profession for the Bears. He has missed solely six begins — two in 2020 on account of a calf difficulty and a one-week stint on the reserve/COVID-19 record, plus 4 extra this season with a knee harm that landed him on injured reserve in October.
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Video games missed by Jenkins throughout his first two seasons. Jenkins will possible add to that complete after struggling a neck harm on the primary possession of final week’s loss to the Eagles. He was taken off the sector on a backboard and transported to a hospital for additional analysis. Jenkins didn't follow Wednesday.
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Video games throughout Jenkins’ profession by which he has performed a minimum of 60% of the offensive snaps. That features eight video games this season. Jenkins was out for 4 months in 2021 after needing again surgical procedure, was in a guard rotation with Lucas Patrick for the primary 4 video games this season and didn’t play in two video games final month with a hip difficulty.
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