After watching tape of Sunday's 36-10 win over the Panthers, Bears coach Matt Eberflus on Monday discussed three things that stood out to him in the game:

(1) What impressed Eberflus most about Caleb Williams' performance was the quarterback's "ability to get the ball to receivers in a more consistent way."

The No. 1 overall pick in the draft completed 20 of 29 passes for 304 yards with two touchdowns, no turnovers and a career-best 126.2 passer rating, the highest by a Bears rookie quarterback since at least 1970.

Receivers DJ Moore (5-105), Rome Odunze (5-40) and Keenan Allen (3-33) combined to catch 13 passes for 178 yards, by far their greatest output in three games they've played together. (Allen missed two contests with a heel injury.) In their previous two appearances together, they combined for 10 catches for 76 yards in a win over the Titans and seven receptions for 51 yards in a victory over the Rams.

Part of the Bears' gameplan Sunday was to throw to their receivers down the field.

"That was by design," Eberflus said. "We hadn't had a big game like that by the receivers yet. There's playing point guard; [Williams] has done that, a couple of games ago, last game, getting it to the tight ends and backs. But this was getting the ball down the field to the receivers. That was most exciting to me."

After some near misses in previous weeks, Williams connected with Moore on touchdown passes of 34 and 30 yards. While it was Moore's sixth career multi-TD outing, it marked the first time he has had two TD receptions of at least 30 yards in a game.

"We saw it in practice first," Eberflus said. "There has been that connection the last couple weeks, and we had been waiting for it to happen in a game when the look presented itself. It did a couple times [Sunday] and we got some good looks and had some good execution."

(2) Eberflus lauded defensive line coach Travis Smith for keeping his players fresh by rotating them in and out of the game.

The line helped generate a consistent pass rush, which accounted for 3.5 of the Bears' season-high four sacks and nine of their 10 quarterback hits.

"The rotation has been great, keeping guys fresh and really platooning guys through there," Eberflus said. "I think Travis has done a good job of that during the game. You have your guys fresh in the fourth quarter, fresh on third down to make sure they can operate in terms of an energy level."

Tackle Gervon Dexter Sr. was credited with 1.0 sack after splitting sacks with lineman DeMarcus Walker and nickel back Kyler Gordon. Tackle Andrew Billings produced his first sack in two seasons with the Bears. And rookie end Austin Booker tallied his first career sack.

"In terms of rushing the passer, Gervon has been rotated in and is doing well," Eberflus said. "And 'Big Bill' (Billings) even got a sack, so that was good to see. That was my favorite play of the game."

(3) Mixing in a no-huddle offense at times provided a major boost.

Trailing 7-0 in the first quarter, the Bears utilized a no-huddle offense on their second possession of the game. They did not huddle on five of the seven plays on the drive, including Williams' 34-yard touchdown pass to Moore.

"I thought the no-huddle and doing stuff with tempo was good," Eberflus said. "I thought that gave us a little bit of juice there. Even though you're not snapping the ball right away, [Williams] assessed what the defense is doing there, so I thought that was good."

On their third possession, the Bears did not huddle on six of 13 plays on an 80-yard drive that was capped by Roschon Johnson's 1-yard touchdown run.

"I think the greatest benefit is you control the pace, and you can get on the ball and snap it right away," Eberflus said. "You can get on the ball and look and see what the defense is giving you. You have time to change your call if you'd like to, so there's a lot of benefit to it. It's a cat-and-mouse game you've got to play as a defensive guy.

" I think it's really good. It's really good to get the tempo going … [Williams] is very comfortable doing that because that's what he did a lot in college. He'll tell you that, too."