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The Bears have dealt with several injuries at wide receiver since offseason workouts, which would seem to be a negative for quarterback Jay Cutler.

The team doesn’t think things have worked out that way, however. Playing without Alshon Jeffery and Eddie Royal for extended stretches and first-round pick Kevin White for the entire season has forced the team to ask for more from their quarterback and quarterbacks coach Dowell Loggains thinks that Cutler has responded well.

“It probably was a blessing in disguise,” Loggains said, via CSNChicago.com. “It’s made Jay step up, be a bigger part, bigger voice. He’s run meetings, been very vocal on what he expects from each individual and I think guys have responded well to him.”

The Bears rank only 24th in passing yards this season, but Cutler is averaging more yards per attempt than he did in 2014 and is on track for the second-lowest interception and sack rates of his career. While there’s a lot of time left in the season for that to change and Cutler’s history makes it hard to assume things will remain that way through Week 17, there’s been bigger problems in Chicago than the quarterback this season.