Chicago Bears address

[Blazers46]

Bears need to clean house and drown Soldier Field in holy water.

 

[FU BK]

1st game I've watched all year. What a fucking shitshow.

 

[FDNYIrish1]

 

[Fbolt]

Made that mistake against the Skins. Not getting sucked in again.

 

[irishff1014]

That was some of the worst time management I have seen.

 

[irishff1014]

 

[rtrn2glory]

I just don't understand why coaches have such a difficult time on clock management. I really think it comes down to putting too much into the timeouts. What good are timeouts if you run out of fucking time!?

 

[FU BK]

This dude is dumb as fuck if he thought they handled it right. Time to blow shit up again. I caught shit last year for saying to get rid of Poles, but get him the fuck out of Halas Hall too.

 

[pumpdog20]

Flus sucks, but also Caleb, feel free to get the play snapped before 3 seconds

 

[Irish#1]

He thought wrong.

 

[Giddyup]

Caleb had a guy on the sideline but they all fucked the clock up he probably figured with 2 sec he has to go big

 

[Crazy Balki]

Flus sucks, but also Caleb, feel free to get the play snapped before 3 seconds

Caleb played really well in the 2nd half and gave them a shot to win. Dude has been good this year. Had his mistakes, but he's a rookie so it's unrealistic to expect him to do everything perfect.

Flus has no excuse. Dude is in year 3 and continues to completely screw up late game management.

 

[pumpdog20]

Caleb played really well in the 2nd half and gave them a shot to win. Dude has been good this year. Had his mistakes, but he's a rookie so it's unrealistic to expect him to do everything perfect.

Flus has no excuse. Dude is in year 3 and continues to completely screw up late game management.

I'm not expecting perfection. Both coach and professional football player deserve blame.

 

[Crazy Balki]

I'm not expecting perfection. Both coach and professional football player deserve blame.

But one deserves significantly more blame.

One is a rookie, the other is a 3rd year head coach. One is expected to handle these situations A LOT better. And to date, we've had well over a half-dozen situations where that veteran coach has imploded in the most important moments of the game.

Caleb will improve and has done well over the past few weeks, but Eberflus's ineptitude in the clutch has persisted.

 

[rtrn2glory]

I don't like Williams for obvious reasons but he's the QB and everything's invested in him so have to make sure he's given every opportunity to develop. Eberflus is not the guy to allow that to happen. Players don't respect him and he's as incompetent as they come. Send him packing. U got a few more days to get the interim guy settled so now is as good a time as ever.

 

[pumpdog20]

But one deserves significantly more blame.

One is a rookie, the other is a 3rd year head coach. One is expected to handle these situations A LOT better. And to date, we've had well over a half-dozen situations where that veteran coach has imploded in the most important moments of the game.

Caleb will improve and has done well over the past few weeks, but Eberflus's ineptitude in the clutch has persisted.

Yeah no one is saying one deserves more blame in the other, but it definitely feels like you're trying to coddle Williams for a pretty basic situation that you would expect a high school QB to know; let alone a heisman winning, #1 overall draft pick. We're literally talking about simply snapping the ball.

 

[arrowryan]

There’s a chance he is the most inept HC in history. He invents a new way to lose every weekend.

95% of the time, the combination of a defensive minded HC and a rookie QB doesn’t work.

 

[IHateMarkMay]

I read somewhere that the OLine person who let the sack in the second to last play didn't hear the snap count, so he didn't move. Then the OLine thought there would be a time out called, so they weren't hurrying. Then Caleb was waiting for a play to be called, which took 15 more seconds. THEN they decided to run the same damn QB draw that got them in the situation and Caleb changed the call when he realized there wasn't enough time.

Fire Flus before he runs out of ways to lose games.

 

[ColoradoIrish]

So has flus been fired yet?

 

[NDLS_USMC]

So has flus been fired yet?

Haha…just came here to ask same thing!

How did he make it past 3:30 central time yesterday???

 

[irishff1014]

He gone lol. That didn’t take long

 

[ColoradoIrish]

Haha…just came here to ask same thing!

How did he make it past 3:30 central time yesterday???

It's official!

Bears fire coach Matt Eberflus after game management issues vs. Lions, the first in-season coaching change in team history http://espn.com/app

 

[ColoradoIrish]

He gone lol. That didn’t take long

Still took longer than it should have

 

[arrowryan]

He gone lol. That didn’t take long

Took way too long. Should’ve happened last January.

 

[rtrn2glory]

Justified. Sorry dude

 

[Dizzyphil]

The last :38 of yesterday's game was the hammer - but he should have been gone at the end of last season.

 

[IrishSteelhead]

He was probably shocked.

"Of all the insanely dumb shit I've done for that last 3 years, THIS was your breaking point?"

It’s like Al Capone finally going down for tax evasion.


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[ShamrockOnHelmet]

No dog in the fight. But I just cannot grasp how, the vast majority of the time, good coordinators don’t end up being good head coaches. There has to be another way to assess people and different avenues by which someone can become a head coach other than by being a coordinator first. I’d take Eberflus back as D coordinator for the Colts in a heartbeat (Gus Bradley stinks), but we knew here in Indy he’d be a terrible head coach back then.

 

[Pops Freshenmeyer]

No dog in the fight. But I just cannot grasp how, the vast majority of the time, good coordinators don’t end up being good head coaches. There has to be another way to assess people and different avenues by which someone can become a head coach other than by being a coordinator first. I’d take Eberflus back as D coordinator for the Colts in a heartbeat (Gus Bradley stinks), but we knew here in Indy he’d be a terrible head coach back then.

I think you're right. There are probably a lot of guys out there who wouldn't necessarily be great coordinators but would transition well to HC.

The thing is, the best way to get an elite coordinator is to offer them a promotion. You don't know if they will be a good head coach but you can probably at least count on them to do well with half of your team. Because of this, I think position coaches have a lower floor.

I think it's a form of risk aversion.

 

[MacIrish75]

No dog in the fight. But I just cannot grasp how, the vast majority of the time, good coordinators don’t end up being good head coaches. There has to be another way to assess people and different avenues by which someone can become a head coach other than by being a coordinator first. I’d take Eberflus back as D coordinator for the Colts in a heartbeat (Gus Bradley stinks), but we knew here in Indy he’d be a terrible head coach back then.

It depends on skillset. A HC has to have some CEO and real leadership qualities to him, where coordinators really just need to be ball coaches and excel at scheme/Xs and Os. Al Golden is a good example of a guy who excels at coaching ball, but didn’t necessarily succeed (at the highest level) of being the CEO type.