Literally every Bears fan I know hated hated hated the decision to bring him back.
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The most damning part of this is Santos prefers kicking from the right hash. And Eberfraud just wasted a play and ran it to the left. Because he didn't know what side Santos, his kicker who was about to try to kick a game winning field goal, preferred.
Unacceptable. Details matter.
I think the whole “lost the locker room” trope is wrong 99% of the time… but in this case it sure seems true. I agree with you, firing him now isn’t ideal, but I don’t know if they had a choice. They’re asking these players to put their bodies on the line for another 5 weeks. Hard to do that when everyone concedes that the HC isn’t up to the task.
So if even 2 of those 4 losses by <3 points goes the other way the Bears would be in the hunt. Is that a true reflection of their talent? Season was Eberflushed?
Him saying that if had it to do over he’d make the same bad decision again couldn’t have helped.
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Coaching also pretty critical in those close games so I'd say this is actually an indictment of Eberflus rather than some kind of bad luck, which I'm sure his agent will spin it as.
The knives are out in a (paywalled) story in The Athletic:
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5957910/2024/11/30/matt-eberflus-fired-bears-players-locker-room/
I'm fully on board with firing Eberflus. That said it is a bit ironic that I presume the guy who is replacing him -- who is getting a ton of flowers right now -- must have had something to do with botching that last sequence. I'm not sure who was doing what, but it seems to me the basic idea was correct: get to the line and throw a 3rd down pass and save the TO so that you have the whole field to throw to and call a TO if a completion in the middle of the field. It went south when Williams decided to change plays at the LOS -- in there somewhere presumably was some bad/slow communication with Brown. Can talk until 15 seconds left on the clock so would have to re-watch exactly when the headset would have been turned off, but pretty far into the sequence, anyway. Isn't it the OC who is in his ear or in charge of whomever is in his ear?
As well, Wiliams throwing deep because he thought they had no TOs left...I mean, that's on Williams as was the decision to spend an eternity at the line in the first place (he's getting a free pass on that due to Eberflus) -- but I'd think the OC would be the first point of contact on all those issues, too.
Oh well. Again, ultimately it falls on Eberflus and there are enough fails on his record -- and a lost locker room -- that by no means is that meant as an excuse. But it is ironic.
As well, Wiliams throwing deep because he thought they had no TOs left...I mean, that's on Williams as was the decision to spend an eternity at the line in the first place (he's getting a free pass on that due to Eberflus) -- but I'd think the OC would be the first point of contact on all those issues, too.
Oh well. Again, ultimately it falls on Eberflus and there are enough fails on his record -- and a lost locker room -- that by no means is that meant as an excuse. But it is ironic.
The Bears were stupid for bringing back Eberflus knowing he’d be on the hot seat in Williams’ rookie year. They should have brought in an offensive minded new guy to pair with Williams.