**(2) Johnson felt that the Bears' potent running game was a group effort.**
The offense delivered a historic performance, especially on the ground, rushing for 291 yards and six touchdowns. The 291 yards were the most by the Bears since Sept. 9, 1984, when they ran for 302 yards in a 27-0 win over the Broncos, and the six TDs tied for the most in franchise history.
D'Andre Swift (124 yards) and Kyle Monangai (100) both rushed for at least 100 yards for the second time in the last seven games dating back to last season's Black Friday win in Philadelphia — a feat that previously had not been accomplished by two Bears rushers since Hall of Famer Walter Payton and Matt Suhey in 1985.
"It starts with the O-line, always," Johnson said. "But the tight ends and those receivers were a big part of the explosive runs as well. It's a credit to all those guys. Swift ran really hard. The intent of the play, he understood. Same thing with Kyle. It was good to see him break out a 60-yarder and run really hard, just like that. But I think it's a really good start. It's further along right now than where we started a year ago in terms of that running game. I knew it was going to take a minute. To see our starting point this year and what we can build off of, it's really encouraging."
Williams also did damage on the ground, rushing for 65 yards — the second most in a game in his career — highlighted by TD scrambles of nine and 29 yards.
"In terms of Caleb, hopefully we can bring this dynamic each and every week," Johnson said. "He and I, as we went over the tape, there's a couple times when we don't have the best call on for the defensive coverage, and this is the marriage between the play you call and our quarterback, is, he's able to make this thing right for us. I believe it's the first rushing touchdown that he had — really, both rushing touchdowns that he had — they did a pretty good job covering everybody, and he was able to find a little space and he took off. He was decisive. He was really fast. I don't know if he gets enough credit for how fast he truly is.
"And so it's one of those things that we may or may not lean into by the play call. It might just be organically that it happens like that. We trust him to know when those times are. But we think it's really, really dangerous for our offense."