LAKE FOREST, Ill. – Frustrated after a mistake-filled performance in last Sunday’s win over the Cleveland Browns, Ron Turner vowed that he would consider scaling back the Bears offense.

But after a thorough and no doubt painful review of the miscues on tape, the veteran offensive coordinator has decided against consolidating his game plan for Sunday’s home contest against the Arizona Cardinals.

Matt Forte accounted for both of the Bears' red-zone touchdowns in Sunday's 30-6 win over the Cleveland Browns with runs of 1 and 10 yards.

“We just have to execute better, that’s it,” Turner said. “We’ve got to come out and take care of our business and execute better. We went through and looked at it. I don’t think we need to pare anything back. We’re fine with what we’re doing. We’ve just got to do it better.”

Turner probably would have streamlined his game plan had the mistakes been made on new wrinkles or concepts. But that wasn’t the case in a contest in which the Bears compiled 369 total yards but scored just two touchdowns on six red-zone possessions (excluding a game-ending kneel down).

“We made some mistakes on things that we shouldn’t make,” Turner said. “It’s not a matter of cutting back, it’s not a matter of not doing it. It’s a matter of focusing better and maybe preparing them better; whatever we have to do. Every mental mistake that we made should not have been made.

“It wasn’t on something that was new, it wasn’t something that was tricky. It was base stuff. Most of it was stuff we put in the first few days of training camp that we’ve run every week and we’ve run over and over and over. So it’s just a matter of focus and zeroing in, and that’ll be there.”

Turner felt that some of his players were thinking too much instead of just reacting.

“I think we had some guys pressing a little bit,” he said. “I think we had some guys over-analyzing things, over-thinking things: ‘Well, I thought I saw this,’ or ‘I thought they were going to do this. I thought maybe the Sam linebacker was here, so I anticipated it.’

“Just react; that’s what we tell them all the time. Just apply your rules and react, and if we do that, it’ll cover everything they’re doing, and we’ll be fine.”

Improving in the red zone is a main focus this week. With just 12 touchdowns and eight field goals in 27 trips inside their opponents’ 20-yard line this season, the Bears are tied for 25th in the NFL in TD percentage (44.4) and rank 29th in scoring percentage (74.1).

The Bears excelled in the red zone earlier in the season, scoring eight touchdowns on 11 trips inside-the-20 during a three-game winning streak over the Steelers, Seahawks and Lions. But in losing their next two of three contests, the Bears scored just four TDs on 13 red-zone possessions.

“We go back and look at what we did and make sure that we’re putting our guys in position to make plays, and then when we do, we’ve just got to execute,” Turner said.

“This last game [against the Browns], there were a couple calls I’d like to have back, that didn’t have a chance. They had a better call than we did, plain and simple. They defended some of the things that we had. So, yeah, we’ve got to look at that and make sure that we’re changing up our tendencies and we’re giving our guys a chance to make plays, and then when we do we have to execute.”

While the Bears offense has been widely criticized following the Browns game, the unit did compile season highs in total yards (369), rushing yards (170) and red-zone trips (7). It’s just a matter of finishing those drives with TDs.

“We could do a lot of things better,” said quarterback Jay Cutler, who failed to throw a TD pass last Sunday for the first time this season. “The players, we’ve got to execute. We’ve got to draw some stuff up and attack them maybe in a different way. But we’re doing good stuff. We’re having opportunities down there.

“We’ve busted on a few red-zone opportunities, so that’s all on the players. When we get our chances, everyone knows we’ve got to take advantage of it. Right now we’re just not doing it. Early in the season we were a lot better.”

As an offense moves closer to the end zone, its margin for error shrinks accordingly.

“You have less field to work with,” Cutler said. “The defense is going to sit on more things. They know they’ve got to protect that. Everything gets a little faster down there. Your decisions have to be made quicker. 

"Everyone’s got to be more precise. You’ve got to be exactly where you’re supposed to be when you’re supposed to be there. If one little thing goes wrong, there’s not a lot of time to make things happen afterwards.”