Matt Eberflus is still the Chicago Bears head coach... for now
Despite calls for his job all across NFL media, the Chicago Bears have not fired head coach Matt Eberflus yet.
Despite another humiliating coaching blunder that caused the Chicago Bears to lose their Week 13 Thanksgiving game to the Detroit Lions, coach Matt Eberflus remains on the team's payroll. In fact, it's business as usual, according to Eberflus on Friday morning.
"I'm confident that I'll be working on San Francisco," he said.
It's a shocking turn of events after most of the NFL universe expected the Bears to break from tradition and do something they've never done in franchise history: fire a head coach during the season. Instead, Eberflus remains employed, even after his most embarrassing act of coaching malpractice to date.
Following a Caleb Williams sack and with 26 seconds left in the game, the Bears were trailing the Lions 23-20. Eberflus refused to use his final timeout and instead left his rookie quarterback to flounder in chaos. Time expired, another "L" for the Bears.
Replay of the final 26 seconds from Bears vs. Lions. Bears coach Matt Eberflus inexplicably doesn't call timeout and let's the clock run out. All time clock management mess up from Matt Eberflus..
— Adam Carter (@SmartfootbalI) November 28, 2024
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It was a brutal crescendo to a painful six-game losing streak despite Williams and the offense coming alive over the last three games. Eberflus has been directly connected to each of the Bears' last-second blunders, which led many to believe GM Ryan Poles and team president Kevin Warren would finally say enough is enough on Friday.
The Bears are now 101-25-2 when they don't turn it over on offense and take the ball away at least once on defense since 1942.
— Kevin Fishbain (@kfishbain) November 28, 2024
4 of those 25 losses have come in the month of November.
Nope!
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For Bears fans looking for a sliver of hope, Eberflus said he's scheduled to meet with Poles and Warren for a second time later today. Players have the weekend off, so if there will ever be a time this season to cut the Flus chord, it's today. Perhaps the Bears' front office didn't have enough time to prepare remarks for a coaching change the morning after Thanksgiving and instead allowed Eberflus to take a few final bullets from the circling Chicago media. Wishful thinking? Maybe. But there's some logic there, too.
Or, maybe the Bears will remain the NFL's laughing stock and continue rolling out a Matt Eberflus-led team for five more games. Maybe they're trying to see how many ways they can lose a game this season.
