Everybody was praying that the Chicago Bears would do the right thing for once: recognize the situation and act. Matt Eberflus had cost this team yet another winnable game with his appalling situational awareness. Failing to use a timeout with 30 seconds left and sitting just outside field goal range? It was inexcusable. Going into Friday morning, people wondered if they’d finally grow a backbone and fire the man. When Eberflus showed up for his 9 a.m. Zoom meeting, the reaction was every bit as visceral and outraged as you’d expect. The craziest part is it wasn’t just fans and media. Jaquan Brisker also had something to say.
Or, a better way to put it, he had a notable reaction. It’s been evident for weeks that players are growing fed up with Eberflus and his substandard operation. When Eberflus popped up on the screen for his brief 9-minute presser, Brisker posted his reaction on Twitter (X).
Jaquan Brisker summed it up perfectly.
The fact the Bears haven’t fired Eberflus despite another national humiliation tells you how unserious of an organization they are. Now, maybe they still might do that, but allowing the man to act as if everything is fine when it clearly isn’t tells you how lacking in leadership this organization is. Jaquan Brisker just proved that the players aren’t blind to this reality. They can’t say anything outright because it will only lead to more unnecessary scrutiny. Don’t be fooled. They want changes as much as anybody. Having to endure five more games of listening to this guy, knowing he has no business being the head coach, will be brutal. Brisker can’t at least count himself lucky that he won’t be on the field for most of it. If nothing happens in the next 24 hours, it is confirmation nothing will until after the season ends.
@Skee Good points about the absence of PR and accountability. But actually, I thought Hard Knocks showed a lot, it’s just that we didn’t look at it from different perspectives. Hard Knocks seemed to have an absence of Shane Waldron. It had a lot of Caleb Williams and players who got cut, and an absence of players who rose and developed. There was significant space to Velus Jones expanding from receiver to coach, and while that’s emotional, we didn’t see any expansion and connection of how other teams (like Niners, use running backs to receive short routes out of the… Read more »
Left a comment about Erik Lambert’s writing separately. This thought is: that even though he’s attributing team and player feelings to them, without any produced evidence. The fact is, I am fed up with substandard coaching. We don’t have to make things up about how I, and many other people commenting here feel. We hate this. We connect it to losing. We connect bad decision-making, bad preparation, penalties, and lack of coherence directly to losing. From comments about different players, to different positions play, to play calls, there are a whole bunch of interesting and valid observations from people here… Read more »
“It has been evident for weeks that players are growing fed up with Eberflus and his substandard operation.” Let me explain this to you Erik . . . WE are getting fed up with the “substandard operation.” WE have said as much. Read the comments. You cannot attribute statements by players who are trying to say the right things, and trying to support their team and teammates, as “evidence” of their being fed up. If you hear or see something behind the scenes, YOU say what you’ve seen, and YOU take some responsibility for YOUR interpretation, or YOUR private conversations.… Read more »
@JFK was AFK is correct!!!!
Eberflus is gone. Thomas Brown is the interim coach according to Frank Schwab.
Why did they let him do the press conference? Warren and Poles need to get their act together. That was a horrible decision to let him talk to the press.
HE’S FIRED!!!!