Matt Eberflus is nothing if not consistent. Unfortunately, that consistency involves finding new, inventive ways to lose close games. This 2024 season has been his masterpiece. It started last month when his defense allowed Washington to win on a Hail Mary despite only 35 seconds left in the game when the drive began. Three weeks later, a busted coverage and blocked field allowed the Green Bay Packers to escape. Now, the head coach watched his young quarterback lead a spirited comeback to force overtime, only to see his defense fail to get a stop against Minnesota, who kicked the winning field goal.
It was evident in the Chicago Bears locker room after the game that players were dumbstruck at how this kept happening to them. They’ve never seen this level of seeming bad luck before. In reality, this happens when you have a head coach who is unable to make good decisions in crunch time. Eberflus is now 5-18 in one-score games for his career. It appears some in the locker room are fed up with him costing them games. A source told SM that a few had approached GM Ryan Poles about firing the head coach.
Bears players aren’t dumb. They see who Matt Eberflus is.
Don’t forget this is the same locker room that went to team brass about dismissing Shane Waldron a couple of weeks ago. It isn’t at all surprising that they’d speak up about Eberflus being a problem, too. He has no answers for them. He simply makes the same bland, pointless statements about sticking together and staying tough. Words like that mean nothing when the losses start piling up. Good head coaches help provide solutions to problems when a team is struggling. Eberflus has not done that.
In truth, we’ve already seen this happen before. The head coach has proven once before that he can’t pull the team out of a tailspin. Matt Eberflus owns the longest losing streak in Bears history, with 14. The previous record was eight. Keep in mind that he only needs three more losses to tie that mark again. He could end up having the longest and second-longest losing streaks. No wonder the players are tired of him. He’s a loser, and they have all the evidence they need to prove it.
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What I’m surprised by is how little Ryan Poles is getting for his trades for Montez Sweat and Darrell Taylor, and the massive contract he gave Sweat which made him the sixth highest paid DE in the NFL.
I think Sweat is hurt and it’s hurting his play, but being unlucky can be every bit as bad – or worse – than being incompetent.
The Defensive line played well after the trade for Sweat, but they had a competent edge opposite of Sweat. When that guy got hurt the pressure from the front disappeared at end of last season. So it’s no surprise that after a few games on tape, opposing teams know what to expect.
Mr Lambert, what happened to all those articles headlined like “Poles is unlocking a cheat code with latest roster move according to NFL insider”. And “Eberflus has built a top 5 defense”?
Locker room turning on Flus? Hell the whole damn City of Chicago and surrounding suburbs have turned on Flus. It’s ugly.
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