(3) Avoid negative plays on offense.

Last Sunday night in Houston, the Bears lost yardage on six penalties, seven sacks, three running plays and two pass completions.

Asked this week where he’d most like strides to be made, Waldron said: “We want to avoid negative plays. We want to be an efficient offense, and we want to be able to run the ball. A great starting point is getting in and out of the huddle, me with the play calls and getting up to the line of scrimmage. No delay of games, no pre-snap false starts, none of those mechanics.”

Many of the negative plays in the first two games were caused by the Titans and Texans blitzing Williams, a strategy the Bears are expecting the Colts and other future opponents to employ against the rookie quarterback.

“We’ve just got to be on it,” said receiver DJ Moore. “Know our calls, know our protection, know when we’re ‘hot’ just to help Caleb out. I know we’ve got to nip that in the [bud] because it’s a copycat league and other teams are going to try to bring the house at him.”

The Bears are working to improve handling stunts by opposing defensive lines.

“A lot of times when it’s a five-man [rush], which we got some last week, it’s more about just games, twists and pick games going on inside there,” said coach Matt Eberflus. “We’ve got to work on passing those off. That’s what they did last week.”

This week in practice, the Bears focused on correcting the pass protection mistakes they made against the Texans.

“It’s not scheme,” Eberflus said. “It’s not this or that. It all comes down to basics and fundamentals and we’ve got to keep working on that as we go.”