Matt Forte is a good judge of talent when it comes to offensive coordinators.

The longest-tenured member of the Chicago Bears' offense, Forte has played for four different coordinators -- Ron Turner, Mike Martz, Mike Tice and Aaron Kromer/Marc Trestman – since he joined the club in 2008. In those seven years, Forte has experienced every twist and turn imaginable on offense; from the good (2013), to the bad (2012,) to the downright ugly (2014).

Enter Adam Gase, the former playcaller of the perennial AFC West champions Denver Broncos who followed John Fox to Chicago in January.

Forte’s classroom and on-field introduction to Gase was slightly delayed due to the tailback’s decision to miss the first phase of the voluntary offseason program to train in South Florida. But after working with Gase for the last month, Forte is convinced the Bears hired the right guy to lead the offense.

“Love Adam Gase,” Forte said this week. “First impression is he's got a lot of energy. He's going to be good not only for this offense, but being able to coach Jay [Cutler] as well. Being high energy and keeping his head stable during a game when stuff happens. Coach Fox just talked about how you respond when events happen in a game, positive or negative. Whatever the response is, the outcome is going to be that.”

No matter the coordinator, Forte’s level of production remains unchanged. Forte leads the NFL in yards from scrimmage (11,431) since 2008, and last year, he became just the second player in league history to gain at least 1,000 yards rushing (1,038) and 100 receptions (102) in a single season.

Fox and Gase, however, have a history of using a running back-by-committee approach in the backfield. Forte played 90 percent of the Bears’ offensive snaps in 2014.

How does Forte expect Gase to use him?

“I knew that the first day when I met Gase and we talked about that type of stuff when he first got hired,” Forte said. “So [ I plan to be used the] same as I've always been; utilized in the running game and the passing game.”