As the Bears continued preparation for their second exhibition game Thursday against the Bengals in Cincinnati, the offensive assistant coaches shared their thoughts on their players’ progress through nearly three weeks of training camp.

Here are some highlights from those Monday conversations.

Wide receivers coach Mike Furrey

On the areas rookie wide receiver Anthony Miller needs to polish: The first thing I tell him is that whatever you’ve done out here for three weeks and how everybody is saying you’re having a great camp is not true. You’re still young. You’re still a rookie. You still have to develop into a professional. And that takes time. And that’s not going to happen overnight. As passionate as you are, we’ve got to slow down at times. And be more patient. You’ve got to understand the big picture of the play and not just, OK, get open.

I think early, he wanted to come out here and kind of playground a little bit. And he was making some plays and everybody was excited. And then we were like, “No, no, no, come here. That was awful. I know you caught the ball. But you’re supposed to be way over there. And that’s his ball.” So that was kind of a new thing for him. And so the first two or three weeks, and still, really just into the preseason game last week, he’s still learning that.

So now with the culmination of all of the plays that he has had to learn and the concepts, things are starting to slow down. He’s starting to understand, “OK, I might not get it here. But I’m going to open it up for somebody behind me.” Now he’s mad about that because he wants the football, which is a good habit, a good thing to have. But he’s doing a better job with that and that’s allowed him to progress here over the last couple days.

On whether top wide receiver Allen Robinson is introverted: I thought he was an introvert early, very quiet. What I think now is that he’s a professional. He loves what he does. He wants to be great at what he does. He’s very, very smart. So he studies all the time. So he knows what he’s doing. And that’s a lot of stuff. When you have all that, there’s not a lot of stuff on the outside that he has time for. This is what he wants. That’s a pro.

So I don’t think he’s as much an introvert as he’s just a professional who wants to be great. And he is rubbing that off on our young guys. And he’s starting to talk a little more with our young guys. “Listen, this is what you have to do. This is what you have to work on.” And in return, they’re kind of teaching him some stuff. Because they can do some things that he can learn from. We’re in a good situation.

On wide receiver Kevin White being his own worst critic: Right now the biggest thing is to get rid of that, and we’re working on that. He didn’t need to be a critic to himself. I’ll do that, and I’ll do it in a positive way. You just go do what we’re asking you to do full speed and expect the football and make plays. He’s done a better job of that over the last couple weeks. You can be hard on yourself to the point where it starts to (cripple) you. You can’t do that. You can’t come out here and play with fear. You can’t come out here and judge yourself. … Right now let’s just go play ball and relax. And I think he’s done that.

Quarterbacks coach Dave Ragone

On Mitch Trubisky’s progress: The last two days in particular, you can tell. Obviously the installs have been in, and now we’re going. And you can see there are some periods out there where Coach Nags is calling it and it’s not scripted, and he’s going out there and performing at a high level and he’s getting to the right checks. He’s seeing things. But more importantly, his information coming back to us, what he is seeing or why he did something, that to us is really the litmus test of what he knows and what he doesn’t. If he’s giving us the right response back on why he did it or why it did not work, then you feel good about it. If he doesn’t know, you obviously think to yourself, “OK, we have to go back over that.” But he’s giving back the right answers. He’s executing plays that aren’t just the 101 level but the next level. Obviously not everything is down, but he’s making steady improvements. Every day is a new day for him in being able to take it to the next step. And challenging himself. He’s done well with that.

On Trubisky’s strides in leadership: He’s a completely different person. Obviously in Year 2 as an NFL player, now especially being the starting quarterback unequivocally of the Chicago Bears, he takes that very serious. His mental approach in terms of the understanding of what a leader is and (how) he needs to be himself as a leader has been leaps and bounds different. And the players around him, you can see it. There’s a calm confidence with him and the players around him. Mitchell’s authentic, which is important when you’re a leader, and his teammates around him understand that. And he’s pushing himself. I give him a tremendous amount of credit. This offseason, it was a big project for him to go out there and make sure he understood that this was his team and he’s done that, and he’s done it from OTAs to minicamp to training camp so far. Again, he’s going to continue to grow in that position, but it’s been really good.

Tight ends coach Kevin Gilbride

On what he has seen from Trey Burton so far: I see a very bright football player, who understands how to get open. There are certain guys who can get open and understand how to sit in zones and things like that, but they can’t create for themselves. He can do both, and he understands the soft spots in zones, which tends to be a smart player. He understands the techniques that allow him to create separation from a man defender, so that’s special in that regard. What I also have seen is his willingness and his toughness in the run game. That’s exciting. That was something that was a question mark because you didn’t see a ton of that on film, but he’s got that in him. Not like we want to put him, a heavy dose of front side of an outside zone play, or anything like that, but he can hold up if you put him in those situations.