After a Week 6 loss to the Washington Commanders, the Chicago Bears shall be again in entrance of a nationwide viewers after they play the New England Patriots on “Monday Night Football.”
Barring an unexpected flex recreation, this would be the Bears’ closing prime-time recreation of the season and one other probability to point out progress. In the lead-up to Monday evening’s recreation, listed below are a dozen eye-catching details and figures.
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Bears-Patriots. Jan. 26, 1986. You know what it’s.
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Career teaching victories for Bill 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 report — common season plus playoffs — with 347. Halas nonetheless holds the excellence of successful essentially the most regular-season video games with one franchise with 318. Belichick has gained 257 regular-season video games with the Patriots.
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Games began by Justin Fields — 10 as a rookie in 2021 and 6 this season. Fields’ profession numbers (which embody a cameo towards the Los Angeles Rams and a aid look towards the Cincinnati Bengals final season): 57.7% completion fee, 2,739 passing yards, 11 landing passes, 15 interceptions, 59 sacks and a 73.1 passer score. Fields additionally has 702 speeding yards and three landing runs and has fumbled 19 instances, shedding 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 fee, 3,540 passing yards, 21 landing passes, 12 interceptions, 26 sacks and a 92.5 passer score. He additionally had 125 speeding yards and fumbled six instances, shedding 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 trip with rookie Bailey Zappe, a fourth-round select of Western Kentucky who has been spectacular in three appearances.
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Average factors scored by the Bears in Fields’ 16 profession begins. The Bears have topped 23 factors solely 3 times and have been held beneath 10 4 instances, together with final week’s 12-7 residence loss to the Commanders.
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Completions per possession by the Bears offense by six video games. We promised a recurring replace on this statistic — no less than till the Bears may push the quantity north of 1.0. Over the final two video games, with 29 completions in 18 possessions, the Bears have made progress on this division. But the struggles within the passing recreation persist. The Bears’ 122.8 web passing yards per recreation ranks final within the NFL. Their 4 landing passes by six video games is tied for final with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Carolina Panthers.
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Starting 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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Length of Khalil Herbert’s second-quarter run final week, the longest of his profession and the longest play of the Bears season to this point. Herbert has 5 runs this season of no less than 15 yards. His 6.4 yards per carry ranks first within the NFL amongst operating 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 towards the Commanders and recorded a first-half sack of Carson Wentz. Smith has 15½ profession sacks.
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The Bears’ report of their final 25 appearances on “Monday Night Football,” courting to December 2007. That does, nonetheless, embody an lively four-game skid. The Bears misplaced twice on Monday evening final season, falling 29-27 in Pittsburgh in Week 9 and 17-9 at residence to the Minnesota Vikings six weeks later.
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Year of the Bears’ final victory over the Patriots, a 24-17 win at Soldier Field. Running again James Allen scored two second-half touchdowns and the Bears protection held Bledsoe and the Patriots to 245 whole yards. The Patriots have gained the final 5 conferences by a mean rating of 35-21.
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Points 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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