Kevin Byard suggests that Matt Eberflus has lost the Bears' locker room

At this point, it almost feels dumb to debate whether or not Matt Eberflus has lost the Bears' locker room – the more interesting argument over the next eight weeks will be *when* exactly it happened.

Normally, when a football team plays as consistently terrible as Eberflus' Bears teams have, it's a safe assumption that the head coach is on borrowed time. It's not that simple with the ol' Chicago Bears, who run their billion dollar franchise like the most adorable little northside Mom and Pop shop you could ever imagine. It's not a smart business plan or a winning strategy, but it's cute!

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If there's one thing that can get the Bears to move off Eberflus' contract before it's techincally up (gasp!!), it's probably going to be a full blown locker room mutiny. And while we've seen the beginnings of one – several players have given head-turning quotes about coaching since the Washington loss – it doesn't quite feel like enough to make a real impact at Halas Hall. Fortunately, Kevin Byard is on the case. After the Bears' ugly loss to the Patriots, Byard was given the opportunity to explicitly support Eberflus in front of a bunch of TV cameras. He made, uh, a different choice.

Kevin Byard's non-answer speaks volumes about Bears' faith in Matt Eberflus

"I'm not going to go there," Byard said in response to a question about whether Eberflus has lost the locker room. "At the end of the day, we've got to play better and we've got to win."

I know that lots of people are going to eye roll at the leaps in logic that take place as this clip goes more and more viral, but I kind of agree with the worst corners of Bears Twitter this one time – it would have taken Byard exactly six seconds to dispute the notion if he wanted to. I get not wanting to make headlines by engaging in leading questions, but this isn't that. This is another Bears starter actively deciding to not support his coach, which is an alarming sentence to type barely halfway through the season.

If you watched literally any of the last two Bears games, you surely already realized that they gave up on Eberflus weeks ago. But if that wasn't totally obvious to you yet, Kevin Byard's here to make it crystal clear.