How the Bears have addressed last week's biggest offensive issue

"And that's not the intent. All those guys, they want to catch the football when it comes their way. We acknowledge the fact that there's a few of those that we could haul in. We need to do that. Turn the page, let's keep it moving. So we're going to be just fine.”

The potential disaster was Sunday when those drops began. It was easily a situation where quarterback Caleb Williams could have gone ballistic on drops by Olamide Zaccheaus, the two running backs, even Rome Odunze. They had six drops by most counts. 

Instead, Williams said after the game that he couldn't call anyone out on mistakes like that during the game itself, and his reaction was to encourage receivers and be positive they'd make catches going forward. Eventually, they did.

Coaches loved Williams' level-headed approach.

"I’m upstairs, so I’m not with him down there," offensive coordinator Decland Doyle said. "However, just communicating through the headset to all of our coaches, it seemed that everybody is ... there was no flinch.

"We kept believing. We really felt like, 'hey, we can get this going here.' I think that he was a great example of that down there on the field just being able to communicate with our guys and keep them in it."

They kept their heads in it and eventually their hands worked better in the fourth quarter during their rally.

"Obviously we didn't maximize some of the opportunities that came our way in the first and second, third quarter, but we were able to make some plays down the stretch and get us some field position and get a field goal and have Caleb score at the end," wide receiver Rome Odunze said.

After the game, Johnson had called it an anomaly. That’s basically how they’ve treated it.

Now, the goal going forward is to have their heads and hands in it at the beginning.

They'll be indoors this week, so no weather excuses on Sunday against Minnesota.

A repeat performance can’t be treated as an anomaly.