LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler and offensive coordinator Dowell Loggains have taken a no-nonsense approach to their relationship.

“There’s definitely some honesty there,” Cutler said on Tuesday. “He’s not afraid to tell me when I’m completely wrong and rightfully so. I like to tell him whenever I think we’re not doing things right or we need to change things.”

Cutler is used to turnover at the coordinator spot. Loggains is the sixth playcaller employed by the Bears since Cutler arrived in 2009, but the difference here is that Cutler and Loggains -- Chicago’s quarterbacks coach in 2015 -- have known each other for years.

"He's not afraid to tell me when I'm completely wrong and rightfully so," Jay Cutler said of Dowell Loggains. "I like to tell him whenever I think we're not doing things right or we need to change things." Kamil Krzaczynski/USA TODAY Sports

Cutler says his preexisting friendship with Loggains allows them to expedite the process of correcting problems on offense.

“I think at the core of that we kind of cut through some stuff and we get things done a little bit quicker,” Cutler said. “Instead of taking a few days and seeing if things work, we cut right to the chase and say, ‘Hey, this needs to change -- this needs to change. This is well. Let’s move on here.' No one’s really sensitive. We just try to get it done.”

The good news for Cutler is the Bears plan to use essentially the same offensive scheme in 2016, with a few minor tweaks. Last year, Cutler flourished in Adam Gase’s system, when he posted a career-high 92.3 passer rating. Cutler also reduced his interception total from 18 to 11.

“Most of the time when you have turnover like that, it’s going to be learning a whole new language, you’re back at square one,” Cutler said. “With Dowell, we didn’t want to do that. The coaches didn’t want to do that. They didn’t want to do that to the players. And I certainly didn’t want to do that. So we took the normal course of action from Year 1 to Year 2 that you would do if he had the same coordinator -- that is, go back and look at what you did well and look at what you didn’t do and kind of tweak some things. The majority of the offensive backbone of what we do is staying the same.”

But Chicago’s offense has to improve. The Bears, who finished 6-10 last season, scored 30-plus points in only two games -- and that was prior to former Pro Bowlers Matt Forte and Martellus Bennett leaving in the offseason.

“We’ve got to be better than last year, that’s for sure,” Cutler said. “We’ve got to be better than last year, and that’s what we tell the guys. Even though we are in Year 2 and we’ve got some new pieces out here. And Kevin White [hasn’t played yet] and Alshon Jeffery has been gone [for much of the offseason]. That’s not an excuse for us. We didn’t turn this offense over. We have the same terminology. The same stuff. We’ve got to improve in the direction we want to go.”