Bears cornerback Jaylon Johnson “didn’t really give a damn” in regards to the consideration his postgame confrontation with Matt Eberflus had gotten after Chicago misplaced to the Lions on Thanksgiving Day.
Throughout an look on 670 The Rating on Monday, Johnson mentioned he came upon in regards to the firing of Eberflus on ESPN and that the postgame encounter got here as a result of “enough is enough.”
“At the end of the day, there was frustration. There were words from myself that I expressed just from my frustration of losing,” he mentioned. “Part of what I said after the game is I’ve been losing for five years. So, I mean, I feel like a high-level player like myself, after a certain point, losing games how we’ve been losing games, someone has to express something. It was one of those situations where it just got to that point where you don’t remember everything that was said.”
Poor time administration late within the sport in the end price Eberflus his job because the Bears dropped their sixth straight sport.
4 of the six losses got here all the way down to the ultimate play, possible resulting in the frustration being felt contained in the Bears locker room.
“It was just based around frustrations of losing,” Johnson mentioned. “That’s what triggered it. Just some certain things and seeing the way things had went these last few weeks. From the outside looking in, you can say it’s the last few weeks. For me, it’s the last five years of my damn career.”
Eberflus was let go final Friday after he did a name with the native media and he had expressed confidence that he’d be teaching the group’s subsequent sport in opposition to the 49ers.
“I’m confident that I’ll be working on San Francisco and getting ready for that game,” Eberflus mentioned throughout a Zoom name with reporters hours earlier than he was fired.
