Chicago Bears fans torch pathetic coaching effort in heartbreaking Week 8 loss

Entering the Chicago Bears' Week 8 game against the Washington Commanders, the belief was that it would begin a stretch of games for the Bears where Matt Eberflus would need to prove capable of being a head coach of a team with legitimate expectations.

While the Bears entered their game against the Commanders riding a three-game winning streak, the popular rebuttal was that the team was punching down on the opponents they were playing. Victories over the injury-riddled Los Angeles Rams, followed by two of the league's worst teams, the Carolina Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars, were doing the heavy lifting of the Bears' 4-2 schedule heading into Week 8.

Facing a Commanders' team with a 5-2 record in a game that was flexed to a national audience with CBS' top announcing team, Eberflus and the Bears needed to prove that the start to their season was real.

The game will be remembered for Jayden Daniels' Hail Mary touchdown pass that won the game for the Commanders, but Eberflus and the Bears' coaching staff being exposed shouldn't be overlooked.

The Chicago Bears' coaching staff was exposed exiting the bye week.

All of Chicago owes the country an apology. As Eberflus is the head coach of the Bears, the team does not deserve to be in a spot where the national audience is watching their games. Whenever the Bears are faced with an opportunity to validate the false success they have had, the team always fails to be worthy of remaining in the conversation.

The Bears' front office will need to have an honest conversation regarding Eberflus' status after the season. Sure, the Bears snuck out of Washington with a win but this game should be an indictment of Eberflus. Even if one were willing to overlook the idea that Eberflus isn't one of the top head coaches in the NFC, it's proven each week that he is the worst head coach in the NFC North.

The blame extends beyond Eberflus. It was a disastrous playcalling game for Bears' offensive coordinator Shane Waldron.

Sure, part of the offensive dysfunction is likely tied to the struggles the offensive line had but Waldron did not appear to have a willingness to try alternative remedies.

Waldron's atrocious play call was cemented on a third-and-goal play where a touchdown would have given the Bears the lead. Instead of calling a dive play for Roschon Johnson, the second-year running back who has thrived this season in short-yardage situations, Waldron opted to give the ball to an offensive lineman.

To Waldron's credit, he called for a Johnson dive on the Bears' go-ahead touchdown drive, but that only set the stage for Daniels' heroics.

Good teams find ways to win games while bad teams create new ways to lose.

The Bears now have a chance to punch down on their next two opponents, the Arizona Cardinals and New England Patriots, but that is only setting the stage for a familiar script the team has had in past seasons: The Green Bay Packers exposing every flaw of the Bears' organization.