Coach Lovie Smith was asked again about his team's 27th-ranked ground game, which got just 38 yards on 18 carries from running backs last week.

"Whenever you come off a game where you didn't have as much production as you would like, you go back to work and you try to fix it," he said. "If you asked me that question a week before (when the Bears had 151 rushing yards against the Lions), I was in a little bit different position as far as answering that. But we're committed to the run. We won't get as many yards as we would like each game, but we'll keep running the football and get production from it."

Offensive coordinator Ron Turner preached patience.

"We're not going to overreact on it," Turner said. "Obviously, it's not where we want it to be, but it's going to get there. We've got a lot of confidence in our offensive line and our running backs and what we're doing. We just have to keep doing it, and it'll get there."

The offensive line has come in for almost weekly criticism. While it's doing a decent job of keeping the pass rush off quarterback Jay Cutler, it doesn't appear to be winning many battles at the line of scrimmage on running downs.

There has been speculation that personnel changes might be made, especially at left guard, where newcomer Frank Omiyale has struggled in his conversion from backup tackle, where he spent the past two years in Carolina.

"Team-wise, we're a 3-2 team that's made some mistakes in all areas," Smith said. "But we like the group that we're putting on the field, and we'll go from there."