Chicago Bears fans are a long way removed from the days of having to deal with former head coach Matt Eberflus. The Ben Johnson era is all the rage and will be for several years to come.
But, somehow, Eberflus is still hanging around the NFL. After being fired as the Dallas Cowboys' defensive coordinator, Eberflus joined the San Francisco 49ers as an assistant head coach.
Speaking with the San Francisco Chronicle recently, Eberflus had a hilarious take on how things are going with his new gig. Somehow, and some way, he inadvertently threw both the Bears and Cowboys under the bus by trying to describe why it's different in San Francisco:
“It’s all football (with the 49ers). And people would say, ‘What do you mean, it’s all football?’” Eberflus said. “Well, there’s nothing but football here. It’s just that that’s all you do. And that enables you to set your meetings up, coach the guys in the technique, and really focus on your job.”
Matt Eberflus makes even less sense now than he did when he was with the Chicago Bears
I'm sorry, I still don't understand what this means. Is Eberflus saying that while he was with the Bears and Cowboys, things around the organizations weren't all about football?
In a roundabout way, that seems to be what he's saying, since he has now been fired from his past two jobs. Suddenly, in San Francisco, they're allowing him to focus more on football?
Honest to God, what does this even mean?
Whatever it means, hopefully for Eberflus' sake, it means he can focus more on learning to operate in crucial in-game situations. Maybe this means there are people within the 49ers' organization who are taking the sweet time out of their days to sit Eberflus down and explain to him the importance of utilizing timeouts when the game is on the line.
Or maybe they need to take Eberflus all the way back to the basics of just what a timeout is. Who knows, he might have forgotten, if history tells us anything.
Does San Francisco have different variations of key aspects that Chicago or Dallas don't have? Do the 49ers have some revolutionary way of doing things when it comes to a film room, weight room, practice field, or meeting space?
Just what exactly allows Eberflus to now focus more on football than he was allowed to while in Chicago or Dallas?
Anyone who reads that quote from the former Bears head coach has to be wondering the same thing. Nothing about what he said makes any lick of sense.
This is the NFL, Matt. You are a coach in the NFL. NFL organizations are, by definition, all about football.
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Whether this was an unintentional shot at the Bears or Cowboys doesn't even matter. In the end, this is just another hysterical Eberflus-ism to add to the embarrassingly long list.
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