They've gotta make a change. It's time.
The irony of the Bears' 4th straight extremely stupid loss is that, in a weird way, it didn't tell Bears fans anything they didn't already know. With Caleb Williams *once again* putting the Bears in position to win a game they probably had no business winning, Matt Eberflus found an impressive new way to ruin all that progress, and a few Chicagoland Thanksgiving afternoons in the process.
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There were a number of baffling Eberflus decisions throughout Thursday afternoon's game – does he know what a challenge flag actually does? – but the fact that the Bears lost a game by three points while finishing with the ball in Detroit's territory AND a timeout is indefensible. If you were doing literally anything else besides watching the Bears today, here's the spark notes version. You don't have to continue reading.
Matt Eberflus' time management has kinda single-handedly ruined the Bears' season
Picture this: the Bears got thorougly outplayed for 85% of the game but stormed back just when you were about to change the channel. What looked like another wholly uninspiring Thanksgiving Day blowout got nice and interesting thanks to a couple 4th quarter touchdown passes to Keenan Allen, and suddenly the Bears were driving for the tie. Surely thing were going to be different this time.
Then, with the clock winding down, Matt Eberflus just ... let it? He just watched Caleb Williams miss one final Hail Mary while the clock ran out, because I guess timeouts are overrated? I get that we've all got places to be today, but one more play probably wouldn't have hurt? I'm phrasing all these complaints as questions because I truly do not know what he was thinking and frankly I'm scared to find out. Do we *really* want to know what was going through his mind at this point? I'm not sure we do.
But yeah; he's gotta go. Calling for NFL coaches to be fired after a loss is low hanging fruit, but I'm legitimately unsure what more the Bears need to see from Eberflus. His ineptitude isn't even a fun little NFC North secret anymore – the amount of random, non-sports people on Twitter that are like, "I don't watch that much football but I think this guy is bad at his job" is embarrassing. It's not even about wins and losses anymore – the Bears just need to save face at this point. Given how this year's gone, they'll probably even get close to doing so before bottling it at the very last second.