Mel Tucker, defensive coordinator for the Chicago Bears, doesn’t have to go back far to find a “How-To” guide on frazzling Tom Brady and the Patriots offense.

In Week 4 during a Monday night game in Kansas City, the three-time Super Bowl champion quarterback looked as ordinary as he ever has, a bit jumpy behind a reshuffled line and never in rhythm throughout the game. Brady and the Patriots not only lost to the Chiefs, they were blown out 41-14, with the offense going scoreless on its first seven possessions (five punts and two turnovers).

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It’s a stretch to say that the Chicago Bears will easily faze New England’s Tom Brady, who’s been on a roll since an uncharacterisic poor game against the Chiefs last month. Reuters photo by Mark L. Baer/USA Today

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WHO: Broncos (6-1) at Patriots (5-2) WHEN: 4:25 p.m., Nov. 2

TELEVISION: CBS

FOUR THINGS TO WATCH

1. Both Coach Bill Belichick and cornerback Darrelle Revis will test the patience of Bears quarterback Jay Cutler. The Bears have struggled to unlock their vertical passing game, and Belichick has had extra time to prepare for Cutler and the Bears’ offense after the Patriots’ won a Thursday night contest against the Jets. Revis isn’t the same dominant force at cornerback that he once was, but he’s still plenty capable of limiting the Bears’ big-play receivers.

2. Can Tom Brady continue his revival? After a 41-14 beating by the Chiefs in Week 4, the Patriots have won three straight, with Brady completing 64 percent of his passes (914 yards and nine TDs). Now, he’ll face a Bears defense that Miami’s Ryan Tannehill picked apart last week.

3. The Bears should establish their ground game. The Patriots rank 24th against the run (average of 126.3 yards per game, 4.4 per carry), and through his seven games, Matt Forte led the NFL with 52 receptions and 448 yards rushing. The Bears admit they didn’t get running back Matt Forte the ball enough in the running game early against Miami, so there will be a concerted effort to change that. Running with the ball or catching it, Forte is the Bears’ most productive offensive player.

4. There could be a defensive disparity up front. Bears defensive end Willie Young is tied for the NFC lead with seven sacks. Patriots defensive end Chandler Jones leads his team with 4 1/2 sacks but will miss about a month because of a hip injury. The Patriots also are without leading tackler Jerod Mayo, who has a season-ending knee injury.

– From wire service reports

Brady’s third-quarter fumble? That came with left tackle Nate Solder getting beat badly off the snap. Chiefs outside linebacker Tamba Hali hit Brady from behind just before he threw, and out came the ball.

On the next series, with no pressure, Brady had a disconnect with wide receiver Julian Edelman and lobbed an interception.

And two possessions after that, Chiefs safety Husain Abdullah undercut a Brady pass to Danny Amendola and returned it 39 yards for a touchdown.

Still, if Tucker offers that up as evidence that Brady can be shaken, he will want a footnote of what Brady has done in the three games since, a near-perfect October in which he has thrown for 914 yards and nine touchdowns without a turnover in victories over the Bengals, Bills and Jets.

With his line improving and his confidence spiking, Brady also will be at home Sunday when the Bears arrive, playing at Gillette Stadium – where he hasn’t lost since the AFC championship game in January 2013.

Tucker lauded the tempo with which Brady runs his offense and called the quarterback the Patriots’ “No. 1 competitor.”

“He does everything right all the time,” Tucker said. “He’s very precise in everything he does.”

Chicago (3-4) have been at its best on the road (its 3-1 record is second to Dallas at 3-0), and horrible at home (0-3), but that should not be considered a factor against the Patriots.

Chicago’s bid to claw back to .500 seems like a steep climb, one that will require the Bears to fluster a future Hall of Famer whose slumps are few and far between. A big component of Brady’s brilliance, the Bears understand, is his ability to take a defense apart piece by piece.

He gets the ball away quickly and uses his offense’s short and intermediate routes to put stress on the defense.

“He is going to throw the ball on time, accurately, to the right person,” defensive end Jared Allen said. “I don’t want to say they are high-percentage throws. He makes them high percentage. He’s obviously one of the best quarterbacks ever to play for a reason.”

Brady’s top two receivers offer up their own challenges. Tight end Rob Gronkowski is a monstrous 6-foot-6, 265 pounds with a huge catch radius. He’s a tough cover for linebackers or safeties.

The 5-10 Edelman, meanwhile, can be a flea in the passing game, is eighth in the NFL with his 44 receptions, and is also used creatively on the ground.

“For a player of his size, he is very good both inside and outside,” Bears Coach Marc Trestman said.

Added Gronkowski: “The guy’s our energizer. He’s always down to run a sweep, a reverse, make a catch down the field, catch a short pass.”

Complicating the challenge for the Bears is the injury status of rookie cornerback Kyle Fuller, who missed practice Wednesday because of hand and hip injuries. If Fuller can’t play, the Bears will have Tim Jennings, Sherrick McManis and Demontre Hurst as their top three corners.

Hurst has played three NFL games. McManis would be eyeing his first NFL start.

That could make for an eye-opening orientation, especially, Allen said, if the Bears can’t stop the run well enough to keep Brady out of second-and-short situations.

“(That’s when) you allow them to give you run looks and throw the ball down the field,” Allen said. “That creates problems up front where you now have to play the run and convert to pass and (Brady) has time to be in rhythm.”

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