GOAT? No Argument from Bears
It's safe to say most teams will say good riddance concerning Tom Brady now that he is retiring, particularly those who faced him most often.
The Bears definitely don't fit rank among all time door mats for Brady because they faced him only seven times in his 22-year career.
However, on a percentage basis on they were beaten with very good regularity by the former Michigan quarterback.
The Bears were 1-6 against Brady. He had a .857 winning percentage against them, completing 185 of 276 for 2,059 yards at 67% completions with 7.5 yards per pass attempt. Brady averaged 294.1 yards passing against the Bears in games, and had 19 total touchdown passes to four interceptions. In seven games they sacked him only nine times and he had a 105.9 passer rating against them.
Considering all that, they should be thankful he was in the other conference. They did have a few memorable games against him even if they weren't usually successful.
In 2018 Matt Nagy's team fell to 3-3 on the year by dropping a wild shootout 38-31 to the Patriots at Soldier Field, a game when Mitchell Trubisky made a sideline to sideline touchdown scramble, and wide receiver Kevin White came up short of tying on on the final play by hauling in a Hail Mary pass on the 1-yard line before being tackle.
The last game this year will be remembered because Brady, the all-time leader in touchdown passes, hit No. 600 with a 9-yarder to Mike Evans over the middle in a 38-3 Tampa Bay rout of the Bears.
The best Bears game against Brady was probably the first one. In 2002 he came to Memorial Stadium in Champaign when the Bears were rebuilding Soldier Field and took the Patriots on a 56-yard touchdown drive in the final two minutes and hit David Patten for a 20-yard winning TD with 28 seconds remaining in a 33-30 New England win.
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Some Bears will have better memories of the GOAT, especially one in particular.
Nick Foles finished 2-0 lifetime against Brady, including the Super Bowl win with Philadelphia after the 2017 season.
Then Foles led the Bears to a 20-19 win over New England on Thursday Night Football in 2020, a game best remembered because Brady couldn't remember—what down it was. Brady was thinking the final pass to Cameron Brate that DeAndre Houston-Carson broke up was third down.
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Tom Brady vs. the Bears
Patriots 33, Bears 30
Patriots 17, Bears 13
Patriots 36, Bears 7
Patriots 51, Bears 23
Patriots 38, Bears 31
Bears 20, Buccaneers 19
Buccaneers 38, Bears 3
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