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When DJ Moore Expects to See Bears Offense Start Clicking

When the Bears have all their receivers together and begin working with Caleb Williams more, DJ Moore expects it to work better but when is the real question.

Gene Chamberlain

The Bears offense goes through warmups Thursday under the watchful eye of Matt Eberflus.
The Bears offense goes through warmups Thursday under the watchful eye of Matt Eberflus. / Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports
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The Bears have been working at their offense for only a short time, so DJ Moore has low expectations for now.

Ultimately, he expects positive results from coordinator Shane Waldron's attack but it could take a while.

"I love it," Moore said after Thursday's OTA practice. "Everybody can touch the ball.

"It's complex, but you know there's going to be detail in what you got to do, so you really got to study."

It will help when the Bears have their full receiver complement. Rome Odunze is nearly over a hamstring injury and ready to join practices.

The end result will be Moore, Keenan Allen and Odunze helping each other learn the attack.

"I know I'm going to learn from Keenan because he's been top-top for a while now," Moore said. "Rome has been asking a lot of questions and stuff like that.

"So, I think we're all just going to bounce ideas off each other, different routes off each other and just complement each other."

When they have it together, Moore really does believe it could be a race to 1,000 yards between the three receivers, as he and Odunze had said in the past.

 "Shoot, I went from I don't know who was here (at receiver), now you got Keenan, Rome, you got Velus (Jones), you got Tyler (Scott)," Moore said. "You got endless playmakers in there.

"Like I said, it's probably going to be a race to 1,000 now. I don't know who's going to get there first, but it's going to be a race."

He's confident enought to project how long it will take to get the offense down to the point where everyone is comfortable in it.

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"Next week?" he said, causing media laughter. "To be honest, I don't know. It's a long time you got now. You got training camp. You got preseason.

"So I say by the first week, we need to (be) clicking on all cylinders. That's enough time. We have like 50-some days to camp."

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Gene Chamberlain
GENE CHAMBERLAIN

BearDigest.com publisher Gene Chamberlain has covered the Chicago Bears full time as a beat writer since 1994 and prior to this on a part-time basis for 10 years. He covered the Bears as a beat writer for Suburban Chicago Newspapers, the Daily Southtown, Copley News Service and has been a contributor for the Daily Herald, the Associated Press, Bear Report, CBS Sports.com and The Sporting News. He also has worked a prep sports writer for Tribune Newspapers and Sun-Times newspapers.