Matt Eberflus could stroll away from Thanksgiving with out a lot to provide thanks for.
After the Bears’ newest loss that concluded in a closing sequence of disastrous seconds to lose to the Lions 23-20 for his or her sixth straight loss and eighth of the season, followers and the sports activities world are calling for the pinnacle coach’s axing.
The CBS broadcasters couldn’t get previous Eberflus’ horrendous clock administration by ending the sport with a day out in his pocket.
“This is unacceptable from the head-coach position,” Matt Ryan stated on the postgame broadcast. “This is your responsibility is to not panic in critical situations and give your team the best opportunity to win games. That’s a massive, massive fail by Matt Eberflus.”
“The players are not without fault. They made mistakes with those penalties,” Nate Burleson added. “But on the coaching side, this was a time management collapse. I don’t want to call for anyone’s job, but these are the type of late-game decisions — or lack thereof — that got people fired.”
Invoice Cowher was additionally fast to notice that this isn’t Eberflus’ first late-game flop, and with 36 seconds left on the clock after quarterback Caleb Williams was sacked, he did not name a timeout to regroup his offense.
“You have a 3rd-and-26, run another play, get in field goal range, you have plenty of time to run your field goal unit out,” Cowher stated.
Many sports activities heads took to X to share their opinions as properly after the detrimental loss.
“Eberflus is my favorite bad coach – they need to extend him for 2 years he’s so entertaining,” the Ringer founder Invoice Simmons wrote on X.
“Matt Eberflus just made a Thanksgiving mistake he may never recover from,” RGIII wrote on X. “YOU CAN’T END THAT GAME WITH A TIMEOUT IN HAND. He’s coaching like he is on the hot seat, feeling the pressure and has been lost in the biggest moments all year. The Bears are repeating the cycle.”
Mike Greenberg added: “There is absolutely no excuse for an #NFL coach to allow that to happen. Hell, there is no excuse for a high school coach. With a timeout in his pocket. Inexcusable. In a season filled with coaching blunders, this was a new low.”
Eberflus is in his third season in Chicago and has but to guide the group to a successful season. In his first 12 months underneath the helm, the Bears went 3-14 with Justin Fields underneath middle and never a lot improved within the following 12 months’s 7-10 season.
They went on to choose Williams with the No.1 general choose of the 2024 Draft, however the Bears have but to discover a groove of their 4-8 season.
Previous to Chicago, Eberflus was the defensive coordinator for the Colts for 4 seasons, which included two playoff appearances.
“Eberflus not realizing they didn’t have a timeout needs to be the final moment of his coaching career with the Bears,” Nick Wright of “First Things First” posted.
