Happy holidays, Chicago! Now bundle up.
Saturday’s Christmas Eve recreation between the Chicago Bears and Buffalo Bills at Soldier Field guarantees to be chilly and blustery. The wintry circumstances will take a look at the 3-11 Bears and their Super Bowl-contending guests from upstate New York.
Here are a dozen eye-catching information and figures earlier than kickoff (midday, CBS-2).
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Projected day-time temperature in levels for Saturday afternoon, based on the National Weather Service. Winds of 25 mph 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 that the coldest recreation he may keep in mind being a part of got here in December 2013 when he was the Dallas Cowboys linebackers coach. Facing the Bears. At Soldier Field. The Bears gained 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 report in video games performed on Christmas Eve. In 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 late 4-yard scoring run.
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Rushing yards wanted by Bears quarterback Justin Fields to interrupt Lamar Jackson’s single-season quarterback dashing report. Jackson had 1,206 yards throughout his MVP season in 2019. Fields would wish to common 69 dashing yards over the ultimate three video games to interrupt the report.
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Average dashing yards per recreation by Fields since Week 5. His 95 dashing yards in Sunday’s loss to the Philadelphia Eagles included a exceptional 39-yard scramble. Fields additionally has three landing runs this season of at the very least 50 yards, setting an NFL profession report for quarterbacks.
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Rushing yards wanted by the Bears over the ultimate three video games to succeed in 3,000 for the season. No Bears workforce has rushed for that mark. Only 4 groups within the Super Bowl period have, together with the 2019 Baltimore Ravens, who set the league-record with 3,296. The Bears, who common 186.9 dashing yards per recreation, would wish to common 128 dashing yards over the ultimate three contests to succeed in 3,000 — and 226.7 per recreation to set an NFL report.
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Total touchdowns accounted for by Bills quarterback 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 1983-87. Allen has 133 landing passes, 37 TD rushes and a 12-yard TD catch (in opposition to the Arizona Cardinals in 2020).
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Point differential posted by the Bills by 14 video games, tops within the AFC and trailing solely the Eagles (143). The Bills have 5 double-digit victories this season, together with a 41-7 pounding of the Tennessee Titans in Week 2, their most decisive of the 12 months.
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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. Only Justin Jefferson (111 and 1,623) and Tyreek Hill (109 and 1,529) have extra catches and yards. Only Travis Kelce and Davante Adams have extra receiving touchdowns with 12 every.
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Bills gamers chosen to the AFC Pro Bowl roster. In addition to Allen and Diggs, the workforce’s different honorees are security Jordan Poyer and heart Mitch Morse. The Bears, against this, had been shut out from the Pro 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 Pro Bowl picks. Besides the Bears, the one different workforce shut out was the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Starting offensive line combos utilized by the Bears this season. That quantity will develop to eight Saturday with guards Cody Whitehair and Teven Jenkins unlikely to play due to knee and neck accidents, respectively. Whitehair, a workforce captain, has began 105 video games throughout his seven-year profession. He has missed solely six begins — two in 2020 due to a calf problem 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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Games missed by Jenkins throughout his first two seasons. Jenkins will doubtless add to that complete Saturday after struggling a neck harm on the primary possession of Sunday’s loss to the Eagles. He was taken off the sphere on a backboard and transported to a hospital for additional analysis. Jenkins didn’t observe Wednesday.
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Games throughout Jenkins’ profession wherein he has performed at the very least 60% of the offensive snaps. That consists of 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 due to a hip problem.
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