GM Ryan Poles stated on Monday that two reasons drove his decision to fire Matt Eberflus as head coach of the Chicago Bears. The first and most obvious was the late-game failures. Eberflus’ inability to make smart decisions in the final minutes of close games had become a trend they could no longer ignore after the disaster in Detroit. The other part was the locker room. Player discontent had been evident for weeks, but nothing explosive had happened. Everything changed on Thanksgiving when Jaylon Johnson and others railed against Eberflus for his baffling refusal to call a timeout to preserve a field goal try.
Poles, who had apparently been pushing ownership to make a change weeks ago, finally got the green light. The Bears fired a head coach midseason for the first time in over 100 years. Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk reached out to sources to gauge the locker room’s reaction when that happened. The response was, to borrow his word, “jubilation.” It wasn’t just because Eberflus was gone, but also because ownership showed a willingness to try something different for once.
Early move on Matt Eberflus gives Bears a golden opportunity
Not only does offensive coordinator Thomas Brown, now interim head coach, have a chance to audition for the job, but the team brass has an extra five months to conduct exhaustive research on every possible candidate. Brown is said to have massive support behind the scenes, mainly from players. He indeed conducts himself like a future head coach. If he can churn out a couple of wins over the next few weeks, the Bears may not have to conduct a search at all. They can hand him the job and let him retool the staff.
Otherwise, the team should have a well-crafted plan of attack when the regular season ends. The question is whether they are willing to wait for the right candidate to become available, assuming he currently works for a playoff team. Historically, the Chicago Bears don’t like waiting to hire their guy by late January at the latest. If it’s Ben Johnson, Aaron Glenn, Kellen Moore, or Joe Brady, they may have to wait until February since their teams look like Super Bowl contenders. It would certainly contrast with how things went with Matt Eberflus.
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One thing about it, the older you get time fly’s faster. Won’t be long I will be watching the draft; I just hope Illinois kicks ass at Basketball and the Cubs get things rolling. Until then its INSIDER time once more. Yip fucking ee!!
No worries Beardown….when the Bears win we get silence from the haters gena, twit, sally shitface…remember twits big prediction of CW throwing for 300+ the first week? Ya the dickhead didn’t show for weeks…when his shit stinks he’s a ghost. Only comes around to spew hate. Well sally will come around to spew some musical nonsense and brag about his fake world travels or some random BS completely unrelated to football. Gena may have to seek mental help since Poles will be the GM for the foreseeable future. Maybe sally can stroke his ego and whatever else sally likes to… Read more »
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14-32 and counting….
Poles’s job is to not overthink this. Do everything that he thinks Warren wants to see about the search, talk about Chicano tough, leader of men, and the rest of the nonsense Warren babbles about., but be smart, you have a short list staring you in the face (Johnson and Brady). Get on the phone with Saleh and give him the autonomy to run the defense as he sees fit as long as he’s willing to be in line with the HC on certain specific situations. Ryan, want to look like you’re a genius again? Use the 11 or 40… Read more »
I’m so happy I get to hear @TGena bitch about Poles for the next 3+ years on this site. What happens if they win a playoff game? Shit, it could be 5-8-10 years +. Life is good 🙂