The clock was operating down within the second quarter and the pocket was collapsing round Justin Fields, with one defender coming at him from the precise, one other circling round on his left, and a 3rd coming straight at him.
A fast pump pretend froze one of many rushers. Fields drifted left, barely eluding the outstretched arm of one other, after which stutter-stepped to the precise to squeeze via a gap that hardly existed. After which it was a race to the sideline, choosing up 20 yards on a third-and-14 and shifting Chicago into subject objective vary.
Fields threw for 179 yards and a landing and ran for 82 yards and one other rating on Monday evening, changing 5 third downs together with his legs and 5 extra together with his arm to guide Chicago to a 33-14 victory over the New England Patriots.
“He saved the drives going,” Patriots linebacker Matthew Judon mentioned. “We'd get them in third and lengthy, and it appeared like he would simply discover a operating lane and decide it up together with his toes, or making a throw. He would simply preserve the chains shifting. We had no reply for him.”
Fields ran for a 3-yard rating within the first quarter to present the Bears (3-4) a 10-0 lead. After Bailey Zappe got here off the bench to exchange Mac Jones and led New England to back-to-back touchdowns and a 14-10 lead, Fields hit Khalil Herbert for a 25-yard landing go to start out a string of 23 unanswered factors.
“I’m nonetheless rising, nonetheless getting higher,” Fields mentioned. “The sky’s the restrict for certain.”
In a matchup of quarterbacks from the 2020 Faculty Soccer Playoff Nationwide Championship sport, Fields outperformed Jones, who led Alabama to victory over Fields’ Ohio State. And Fields additionally outplayed Zappe, who got here on after Jones was managed simply two three-and-outs and an interception in his return after lacking three video games with a excessive ankle sprain.
With the damp Gillette Stadium crowd chanting “Zappe! Zappe!” the fourth-round draft decide from Western Kentucky led the Patriots to back-to-back touchdowns and a 14-10 lead. However the Bears scored the subsequent 23 factors.
“Only a poor displaying, throughout the board, from starting all the best way to the top,” New England security Devin McCourty mentioned. “If we hand over 33 factors, I don’t care who performs quarterback. We’re going to have a tricky time profitable the sport.”
Zappe was 5 of 6 for 109 yards and a landing within the first half. However within the second, he was 9 of 16 for 76 yards and two interceptions. Jones accomplished 3 of 6 passes for 13 yards, with one interception. Rhamondre Stevenson caught eight passes for 59 yards and ran 11 occasions for 39 for the Patriots (3-4).
Patriots coach Invoice Belichick mentioned the plan all alongside was to play each quarterbacks, and that Jones was not benched for his efficiency. He declined to say who would begin subsequent week in opposition to the Jets.
“He would have gone again in (however) the rating acquired out of hand,” he mentioned. “I didn’t assume that was the precise factor to do.”
David Montgomery ran for 62 yards and Herbert did the identical for Chicago, which had misplaced three straight video games and 4 out of 5. The Bears had additionally misplaced 5 straight to the Patriots and eight out of 9 since beating New England within the 1986 Tremendous Bowl 46-10.
Bears kicker Cairo Santos was 4 for 4, together with a 50-yarder late within the third quarter that made it 26-14. After Zappe went three-and-out, Dante Pettis returned a punt 27 yards to the Patriots’ 39-yard line; Herbert and Montgomery took it the final 26 yards to present Chicago a 33-14 lead.
Bears rookies Kyler Gordon and Jaquan Brisker had their first profession interceptions.
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