Matt Eberflus should be handed his walking papers after tone deaf comments
By Ryan Heckman
In Week 10, the Chicago Bears officially hit an all-time low for this season. It wasn't even close.
In their 19-3 loss to the New England Patriots, the Bears put up a season-worst 142 offensive yards. It was an embarrassment all-around for Chicago, except maybe for some of the performers on defense.
But, that's not a surprise. It's been the defense carrying this squad on most occasions this year, anyway.
After the game, head coach Matt Eberflus addressed the media in a manner he always does. It was a lot of word salad ... surprise, surprise.
Fans that watched his post-game press conference heard a lot of the same jargon: "we'll look at everything," along with about six or seven other versions of that exact statement. It was nothing new, for the most part.
In fact, dare I say, it resembled much of what fans used to hear from Matt Nagy.
What a vicious cycle this organization finds itself in.
Beyond your typical coach-speak answers from Eberflus, after a loss, the head coach also provided a response to a question that most fans will find absolutely repulsive.
The topic of asking his defense to do even more, while the offense struggles, came up. Specifically, Eberflus was asked whether or not it is fair for him to make that ask of his defense.
Matt Eberflus' tone deaf comments after Patriots loss will infuriate fans
This might be the worst coach-speak of all coach-speak we've heard from Eberflus, and that's saying something.
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The Bears defense, for the most part, has been a very good unit this year. They've only given up more than 20 points on two occasions, still, to this day. Yet, Eberflus feels like it's perfectly fine to ask them to do even more.
Ask the defensive players what they think about that. Go ahead, I dare you. Wait, someone already hinted at that topic in the locker room with Bears safety Kevin Byard ... and it did not go over well.
Are we paying attention, Mr. Poles?
Eberflus feels it's fine to expect even more from the unit because of the fact that Shane Waldron's scheme and play-calling simply isn't working. It might not even work at the JV level, if we're being honest.
Forget the fact that the Bears' offensive line is in shambles. There are several teams who can say the same thing, yet are putting up more than this Bears offense is on a weekly basis. The offense has zero excuses other than with Walrdon. That's where the blame should land.
It's on Waldron, which also means that it's on Eberflus. It's all on coaching. This is now the obvious time for Ryan Poles to make a bold move which the Bears don't typically make, but it has to happen.
Eberflus needs to lose his job. He must be fired, period. There's no other way around it.
And, in fact, Waldron needs to go as well, but at the very least, Eberflus. The Bears have reached a new low after losing to the Patriots, and there's no coming back from it if you're Eberflus.
The time has come. Fire Eberflus, move forward.