After an embarrassing loss to the Detroit Lions in Week 2, Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson professed a plan for changes that would be coming to get the offense on a better track. That plan didn't come to full fruition the following week, and the plan still hasn't come to full fruition, but signs of what was to come were there.
In that Week 3 game against the Dallas Cowboys, rookie wide receiver Luther Burden had three catches for 101 yards, highlighted by a 65-yard touchdown on a flea flicker. The follow-up in Week 4 against the Las Vegas Raiders was dismal (two catches for minus-four yards), but the bye week in Week 5 looked like a point where Johnson could get in the lab and find ways to get Burden (and others) more involved.