The Chicago Bears clearly made the right call by moving on from Matt Eberflus. The former Bears head coach amassed just 14 wins during his 2.5 years on the job and was canned before the 2024 season was even over.
Eberflus then spent the 2025 season in Dallas as the Cowboys' defensive coordinator. If you watched the Cowboys play defense at all last season, then you'll know how poorly that experiment went. Eberflus was out of a job once again by season's end and is now serving in an assistant defensive role with the 49ers.
That doesn't mean that Eberflus is out of the woods from criticism, though. Cowboys cornerback Shavon Revel Jr. recently spoke about Christian Parker, the newest defensive coordinator in Big D, and while praising his newest DC, might have taken a shot at his former DC. Bears fans are going to want to hear this.
“It’s been a blessing for real,” Revel said. “There’s been a lot of things that we do this year that we didn’t do last year. Cleaning up a lot of your techniques, a lot of things that you made mistakes on the day before. [Parker]’s very detailed or technical with his movement and what he wants us to do. Each day it’s nothing different, your approach is to get better each day.”
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Maybe Revel didn't mention Eberflus directly, but saying that the Cowboys are doing things already that they didn't do a season ago is pretty darn telling. Revel is entering his second year in the league, so he's had two defensive coordinators, and it's obvious which one he prefers, even without playing a single snap for one of them.
Bears fans already knew that the organization made the right decision in moving on from Eberflus. He won just 14 games during his two and a half years on the job, and the team wasn't looking improved under his tutelage. Enough was enough.
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Ben Johnson came in and immediately turned Chicago into a division winner, and the Bears will be looked at as Super Bowl contenders because of the turnaround. That never would have been the case if the Bears had stuck with Eberflus or even just given him a longer leash. They made the right call, and Revel further confirmed it.
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