(Audacy) Bears top receiver DJ Moore isn’t expecting any changes to the team's play-calling arrangement on offense.
Chicago’s retooled offense has done a lot of starting and stopping this season. After drafting quarterback Caleb Williams and receiver Rome Odunze and adding running back D’Andre Swift and receiver Keenan Allen to the offense, it took a few weeks for the unit to really get off the ground. The Bears began to hit their stride around Week 5, but their two losses since the Week 7 bye have seen the offense stagnate again.
Offensive coordinator Shane Waldron has come under fire throughout the season, and the Bears putting up just nine points against the Cardinals on Sunday has ramped up calls to turn offensive play-calling over to somebody else.
Moore doesn’t foresee such a change, he told the Mully & Haugh Show on Monday, though he knows adjustments are needed in other ways.
"I don't think that will happen,” Moore said. “We've just got to go back to the drawing board and start putting people in different positions to be able to move the ball and stay on the same page and stick together.”
Moore’s comments came after he sidestepped an earlier question about whether head coach Matt Eberflus has lost the team.
We’ve seen the Bears offense put all the pieces together at different points this season with Waldron as the play-caller. Given his apparent willingness to listen to player feedback, sticking together and going back to the drawing board, as Moore suggested, could help get the unit back on track.
Time will tell, but the Bears at least have a get-right game against the woeful Patriots lined up for next Sunday.