Bears try to regroup from back-to-back losses when they host Patriots

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Bears try to regroup from back-to-back losses when they host Patriots

2024-11-08 05:59 Last Updated At：06:01

New England (2-7) at Chicago (4-4)

Sunday, 1 p.m. EST, FOX

BetMGM NFL odds: Bears by 6 1/2.

Against the spread: Patriots 3-5-1; Bears 4-3-1

Series record: Patriots lead 10-5.

Last meeting: Bears beat Patriots 33-14 in Foxborough, Mass., on Oct. 24, 2022.

Last week: Patriots lost 20-17 in overtime at Tennessee; Bears lost 29-9 at Arizona.

Patriots offense: overall (32), rush (24), pass (32), scoring (30).

Patriots defense: overall (25-T), rush (26), pass (22), scoring (21).

Bears offense: overall (28), rush (23), pass (29), scoring (19).

Bears defense: overall (12), rush (20), pass (8), scoring (5-T).

Turnover differential: Patriots minus-3; Bears plus-7.

QB Drake Maye. The No. 3 overall pick in this year's draft dazzled and showed he remains a work in progress last week. Maye threw for 206 yards and a dazzling touchdown at the end of regulation, dodging defenders for nearly 12 seconds before finding Rhamondre Stevenson in the end zone as he was hit to force overtime. The former North Carolina star ran for 95 yards. But he also threw two interceptions, including one in OT.

QB Caleb Williams. The No. 1 overall draft pick has cooled off following a hot stretch, with a 65.4 passer rating and 49.2% completion rate (32 of 65) the past two games. In the four games prior to that, he threw for nine touchdowns and three interceptions.

Williams vs. Maye. Williams finds himself going against another top quarterback from this year's draft class for the second time in three games, after Jayden Daniels led Washington to a win on a Hail Mary pass two weeks ago. While Daniels, the No. 2 overall pick, is leading a resurgence in Washington, the transition to the NFL has not been as smooth for Williams and Maye.

Patriots S Marte Mapu (neck) and DT Jaquelin Roy (neck) were hurt against Tennessee. ... Bears DT Andrew Billings was scheduled for surgery this week for a torn pectoral muscle. He left in the second half of last weekend’s game. ... The Bears expect S Jaquan Brisker (concussion) to miss his fourth straight game. ... CB Kyler Gordon (hamstring) has missed the past two games. ... DE Montez Sweat (shin) and LT Braxton Jones (knee) missed the Arizona game. ... RT Darnell Wright (knee) was hurt against the Cardinals.

The Bears had lost five straight and eight of nine to the Patriots since a Super Bowl 20 victory, prior to the win in Week 7 two years ago. Justin Fields threw for a touchdown and ran for a score, helping Chicago stop a three-game losing streak. The Bears then lost their final 10 games to finish a league-worst 3-14 in their first season under general manager Ryan Poles and coach Matt Eberflus, trading DE Robert Quinn two days after that win and LB Roquan Smith the following week.

New England is tied with six teams for the NFL's worst record at 2-7. ... Maye's 95 yards rushing last week were third most for a QB in team history, but outside of their quarterback, the Patriots totaled 15 yards on 12 carries. ... CB Marcus Jones has been making an impact on special teams, returning a punt 44 yards last week after running one back 62 yards the previous game against the New York Jets. ... Chicago's wins are against teams with a combined 10-24 record — Tennessee (2-6), the Los Angeles Rams (4-4), Carolina (2-7) and Jacksonville (2-7). ... The Bears are 4-0 in home games, counting a win over Jacksonville in London. ... Chicago is tied for fourth in the NFL with 15 takeaways. ... The Bears gave up 213 yards rushing last week, the most they've allowed since Detroit ran for 265 on Jan. 1, 2023. ... Rookie WR Rome Odunze caught five passes for 104 yards — his second 100-yard game. The No. 9 pick had 112 yards in a Week 3 loss at Indianapolis. ... TE Cole Kmet wasn't targeted last week and had just one pass thrown his way — a 14-yard reception — in the previous game at Washington. The veteran has 303 yards and three touchdowns. ... K Cairo Santos is tied for third in the NFL with six field goals of 50 yards or more. ... Rookie Tory Taylor has a 49.1-yard gross punting average — the highest single-season mark in franchise history.

Williams might be due for a bounce-back performance against a shaky defense. The 2022 Heisman Trophy winner is 3-0 with three touchdowns, zero interceptions and a 95.4 QB rating at Soldier Field. Williams threw for 304 yards and two scores against Carolina in Week 5 — the Bears' most recent game in Chicago.

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Spain's catastrophic floods by the numbers: At least 219 dead, 93 missing and billions in damage

2024-11-08 05:56 Last Updated At：06:01

MADRID (AP) — The catastrophic torrential rains that overflowed rivers and normally dry canals in eastern Spain last week triggered flash floods that submerged entire communities and killed scores of people.

The deluge left behind a landscape of devastation, especially in Valencia, the hardest-hit region. The search for the dead and missing continues, more than a week since the Oct. 29 floods hit — as well as a gargantuan cleanup and recovery effort.

Here’s a look at Spain’s deadliest natural disaster of the century, by the numbers:

The historic floods caused 219 deaths, 211 of them in the Valencia region alone. Another seven people died in neighboring Castilla La Mancha and one more in southern Andalusia.

Ninety-three people have been officially declared missing, but authorities admit that the real number could be higher. Another 54 bodies remain unidentified. In total, 36,605 people have been rescued, according to authorities.

The full extent of the damage is unknown, but Spain’s Consortium for Insurance Compensation, a public-private entity that pays insurance claims for extreme risks like floods, estimates that it will spend at least 3.5 billion euros ($3.8 billion) in compensation.

The consortium has received 116,000 insurance claims for flood damage, with 60% of the claims for cars and 31% for homes. Spain’s Association of Insurance Companies anticipates the flooding will break a historic record for payouts.

The Transport Ministry has so far repaired 232 kilometers (144 miles) of road and rail tracks but the highspeed train line between Valencia and Madrid is still demolished.

The central government has approved a 10.6 billion-euro ($11.6-billion) relief package for families, business and townhalls. The Valencia regional government is asking Madrid for 31 billion euros ($33 billion) in aid as well.

The drought that has hit the country for the past two years and record hot temperatures helped magnify the floods, scientists say.

Spain's meteorological agency says that 30.4 inches fell in one hour in the Valencian town of Turis, an all-time national record for rainfall set on Oct. 29. The devastated village of Chiva also received more rain in eight hours than the town had experienced in the preceding 20 months.

The storms honed in on the Magro and Turia Rivers and the Poyo canal, turning them into swift currents that swept away everything in their path. To the human eye, it looked as if a tsunami-like wave of water and mud cut a swath through the southern outskirts of the city of Valencia.

The European Space Agency said that, according to satellite images captured on Oct. 31, water covered an area of 15,633 hectares (38,600 acres). About 190,000 people were directly affected, the agency said.

In all, 78 municipalities had at least one resident perish in the floods.

The emergency operation mobilized by central authorities has grown to more than 17,000 troops and police officers.

The operation includes 8,000 soldiers — 2,100 of them belonging to military emergency units specialized in disaster response — along with 9,200 additional police officers from other parts of Spain.

Thousands of ordinary citizens volunteered, with no definite estimate as to exactly how many, have helped from day one with the cleanup effort.

The government said that in the first week after the floods, authorities restored electricity to 147,000 homes and distributed some 178,000 bottles of water to places that were still without drinking water.

Spanish authorities have yet to say how many calls about missing people they received, give an estimate of the property damage, or release a calculation of how much land was devastated.

And at this point, no one can guess when the recovery effort will be concluded.