**(2) Holding NFL leading rusher Bijan Robinson to his lowest output of the season was a group effort.**
The Falcons star running back entered Week 6 with 580 yards on the ground — more than 18 NFL teams had compiled by that point. This season, Robinson has had outings of 194 yards against the Packers and 145 yards versus the Saints, but was limited to 61 yards on nine carries by the Bears.
"We had a plan to try to be able to do that," Allen said. "That's easier said than done. There's a couple plays in the game where we didn't play it the way we needed to play it or execute it, and he hurt us. It really went down to just the guys that we had in the game, for the most part, executing the plan and doing it the right way. Guys flew around to the football. We knew it was going to take all 11 to be able to stop that guy.
"We also knew it was going to be a team game with the fact that we were able to get out to a lead; it didn't allow them to just continuously try to run the football. It's a lot easier to stop him when he only touches the ball nine times in the run game. All those things played a factor."
The offense did its part by scoring touchdowns on its first two drives to give the Bears an early 14-0 lead and possessing the ball for 40:08.
"It was critical that we built an early lead," said offensive coordinator Press Taylor. "Building a 14-0 lead, kind of being able to control the pace of the game and the way it was flowing, not letting Bijan get 35 carries, we felt like as an offense we were part of the game plan there to limit their offense."
**(3) Taylor marveled at Caleb Williams delivering one of his best performances as a pro after missing the previous three games with a hamstring injury.**
The third-year pro set career highs with 12 straight completions and an 83.3 completion percentage while throwing for 305 yards and 1 TD with a 111.2 passer rating.
"The most impressive thing was that he hasn't played since Week 2," Taylor said. "To come back and to be on point, to be on rhythm, to be as accurate as he was in his first outing in a while, credit to him, credit to the skill guys to be able to get open, be available, be on time, and really be where they're supposed to be when they are supposed to be there for him.
"The thing you're most concerned about going into that game was just he hadn't played in almost a month. So, is there going to be some rust to it? I think our training staff did a great job of getting him ramped up for that. He threw on Wednesday well before we had a walk-through just to stay fresh because we knew we needed to walk through for the guys that had been playing. But him staying fresh in terms of the pass game and being on time and on rhythm, that was a big deal for us."
Williams spread the ball around, completing at least two passes to eight teammates.
"When a guy is in rhythm, you just kind of let him go," Taylor said. "It didn't feel like he was forcing things. It didn't feel like he was going off script too often. So, you're able to work through the call sheet, you're able to spread the ball all around, everybody's involved. That's good for guys getting catches early in the first half; it's going to help them in the third quarter, in the fourth quarter, whenever that may be. Because they have been involved in the flow of the game, all of that is big; all of that allows for you to get a number of plays in, spread the wealth and really eat up the clock a bit the way it was going as well."