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Bears fire Matt Eberfus


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According to multiple players and staffers in the locker room, some players were asking why Eberflus didn’t call a timeout. Other players got going, too.
“Guys were furious,” a staff member said. “It was an accumulation of this season.”
“The locker room was ugly,” another staffer said. “There was a lot of yelling.”
Said the first player: “We felt as players it’s been too many instances where we fought our way back into games to lose because of bad time management and decision-making.”
Multiple sources added that the emotions were so high between the players and their head coach that Eberflus left the locker room immediately after his speech and the exchange with players. There was nothing left to say. It was a moment for this Bears team that would inevitably force chairman George McCaskey into something the franchise had never done before.
By Friday morning, Eberflus was out — but not before the team decided to have him address the media over Zoom just after 9 a.m. Two hours later, he was gone. The Bears made it official by sharing statements from general manager Ryan Poles and president/CEO Kevin Warren.
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1 minute ago, Jackie Lee said:
According to multiple players and staffers in the locker room, some players were asking why Eberflus didn’t call a timeout. Other players got going, too.
“Guys were furious,” a staff member said. “It was an accumulation of this season.”
“The locker room was ugly,” another staffer said. “There was a lot of yelling.”
Said the first player: “We felt as players it’s been too many instances where we fought our way back into games to lose because of bad time management and decision-making.”
Multiple sources added that the emotions were so high between the players and their head coach that Eberflus left the locker room immediately after his speech and the exchange with players. There was nothing left to say. It was a moment for this Bears team that would inevitably force chairman George McCaskey into something the franchise had never done before.
By Friday morning, Eberflus was out — but not before the team decided to have him address the media over Zoom just after 9 a.m. Two hours later, he was gone. The Bears made it official by sharing statements from general manager Ryan Poles and president/CEO Kevin Warren.

Sounds a lot like the clusterfug we had last year with Reich.

Poor leadership loses the team. Poor leadership will cost you your job.

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1 hour ago, rayzor said:

Sounds a lot like the clusterfug we had last year with Reich.

Poor leadership loses the team. Poor leadership will cost you your job.

And somehow Brown is in line to be  their HC. Kind of unbelievable that they have so much from us, now they they get their coach too. Not that I was saying to keep him, I wasn't.

He is Lazarus Brown afaic.

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9 hours ago, rayzor said:

Sounds a lot like the clusterfug we had last year with Reich.

Poor leadership loses the team. Poor leadership will cost you your job.

As much as he struggled last year, I don't think Reich has ever done anything that stupid.  I can't remember any coach doing anything that dumb.  

The closest thing I can remember is in college basketball when Chris Webber called a timeout the team didn't have.  But that was a heat of the moment of forgetting and best I can remember, he admitted the mistake.  

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9 minutes ago, ProcessBlue2 said:

I thought I read somewhere that Williams changed the play which took up the extra time. If you watch the video you can see him making adjustments. Still, if you're Eberflus you call a timeout before the clock runs out.

 

Yeah page 2 I posted a screenshot of his statement, it's super fuging dumb lol. 

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