Friday morning Chicago Bears head coach Matt Eberflus gave a press convention the place he offered an replace on the state of the franchise within the wake of Thursday’s loss to the Detroit Lions, which dropped the group to 4-8 on the season, and into final place within the NFC North.
Hours later the state of the franchise now not included him as the top coach.
Eberflus was fired by the group after Thursday’s disastrous loss to the Lions, the group’s sixth-straight defeat. The loss to Detroit additionally included the group’s newest late-game meltdown, courting again to the group’s loss to the Washington Commanders again on the finish of October. With simply seconds remaining in that sport, the Bears held a 15-12 lead and had been simply moments away from bettering to 5-2 on the season.
However then Jayden Daniels related on a Hail Mary on the sport’s closing play to present Washington an 18-15 win, dropping Chicago to 4-3 and kicking off a six-game dropping streak.
Thursday’s loss to the Lions was one other late-game catastrophe. After falling down 23-7 within the second half the Bears scored 13 unanswered factors within the fourth quarter to shut inside a discipline objective. Chicago had an opportunity to drive extra time late within the sport after Caleb Williams drove the Bears into discipline objective vary after beginning their closing drive of the sport on their very own 1-yard line. However with Chicago holding a timeout and having greater than 30 seconds to work with, Williams took a sack after which the offense ran a play, a cross that fell incomplete as time ran out. Chicago left the sector with that closing timeout nonetheless of their arms.
After the sport, Eberflus defended the group’s end-game administration, saying it was carried out the “proper manner” on the finish.
“I like what we did there,” Eberflus stated. “Once more, as soon as it’s underneath seven [seconds], you’re going to name a timeout there — really underneath 12, after which actually you don’t have an possibility as a result of it’s third to fourth, you need to throw it into the top zone then.
“To me it’s — I feel we dealt with it the appropriate manner, I do consider that you just simply rerack the play, get it in bounds and name timeout, and that’s why we held it and didn’t work out the way in which we needed it to.”
It appears the entrance workplace disagreed:
Thomas Brown will take over on an interim foundation, marking his second promotion this season. Brown started the 12 months as their passing sport coordinator however took over because the offensive coordinator after the group fired Shane Waldron.
Now he provides interim head coach of the Bears to a rising resume.
