Moving on from Luke Getsy was the right choice. After two years, it had become clear the former Chicago Bears offensive coordinator didn’t have any answers to the team’s passing woes. Head coach Matt Eberflus had to find someone to elevate a young quarterback. That is what eventually led him to Shane Waldron. To the shock of many, the offense hasn’t changed. It still struggles in pass protection, doesn’t execute well, and lacks identity. Waldron is already having calls for his head. Nobody can understand what went wrong.
Upon closer examination, it is possible Eberflus undercut his offensive coordinator before the season even began. People forget now because of the whirlwind of the past few months, but the Bears head coach didn’t fire everybody from Getsy’s former staff. Offensive line coach Chris Morgan was kept. It was a somewhat curious decision at the time. However, Eberflus argued the assistant had done good work with the Bears’ rushing attack and had helped scout Braxton Jones and Darnell Wright.
In hindsight, that may have been a miscalculation.
Matt Eberflus should’ve let Waldron make the decision.
It isn’t always a good thing when a head coach forces a staff together who lacks familiarity. There is no more critical coach on the offensive side than the line. He must have good chemistry with the coordinator, so the two are on the same page. He and Waldron have never once crossed paths. The latter’s run scheme is significantly different from Getsy’s, and the pass protection scheme is as well. Nobody stopped to think that maybe the two might clash in styles and preferences. At least, that might explain why the line looks so lost at times.
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Since 2022, the Bears have allowed 137 sacks. That works out to 3.26 per game. No team has been as consistently bad over the same stretch. Yes, talent plays a part in it. The Bears haven’t invested a ton of high-end resources into the group. Then again, neither have the Los Angeles Rams, and they’ve allowed 2.53 sacks per game over that same stretch. Why? A lot of it comes from having a good offensive line coach (Kevin Carberry) familiar with Sean McVay’s offense.
Sticking Morgan and Waldron together may not have been the wisest decision by Matt Eberflus.
Everyone knows what I think. Sabotage Shane Waldron? Perhaps, but the Las Vegas team had the sense to know that Luke Getsy’s “scheme” and “coordination” was faulty after 6 games AND, he had no clue how to fix it. Getsy had both a young quarterback in O’Connell and an experienced one in Gardner and he wrecked anything they could do. It took them 6 games to fire him , even though, like the Bears 2 and a half years ago (it feels like a decade), Eberflus kept him for a full 2 years. Winnie the Pooh could have coordinated and… Read more »
Good thing our GM is a certified Oline expert and clearly helped alleviate all of these coaching concerns and lack of Oline talent 😂😂
OL has been this team’s Achilles heel since I can remember. Even with Kreutz, “Big Cat” Williams was our other “stud” and he basically sucked. We take fliers on injured vets, our draft picks get injured, we trust guys like Morgan and Juan Castillo who have bounced around the league and really all levels of the sport without any real success… It’s just not a priority for the organization, and it f*cking shows.
It doesn’t help that Getsy liked the outside zone blocking scheme and Waldron prefers more of an inside zone scheme. CMo is having to coach a different scheme all together and he didn’t exactly do great last year. The Bears should have hired a OL Coach with vast experience coaching and inside zone blocking scheme.
It does not make any difference how the blame is parceled out; this gross ineptness and comedy of junior high errors across so many areas require their removal, including Preparation H Poles. They really owe, all. Off with their heads! ROAR!