Matt Eberflus is nothing if not consistent. Unfortunately, that consistency involves finding new, inventive ways to lose close games. This 2024 season has been his masterpiece. It started last month when his defense allowed Washington to win on a Hail Mary despite only 35 seconds left in the game when the drive began. Three weeks later, a busted coverage and blocked field allowed the Green Bay Packers to escape. Now, the head coach watched his young quarterback lead a spirited comeback to force overtime, only to see his defense fail to get a stop against Minnesota, who kicked the winning field goal.
It was evident in the Chicago Bears locker room after the game that players were dumbstruck at how this kept happening to them. They’ve never seen this level of seeming bad luck before. In reality, this happens when you have a head coach who is unable to make good decisions in crunch time. Eberflus is now 5-18 in one-score games for his career. It appears some in the locker room are fed up with him costing them games. A source told SM that a few had approached GM Ryan Poles about firing the head coach.
Don’t forget this is the same locker room that went to team brass about dismissing Shane Waldron a couple of weeks ago. It isn’t at all surprising that they’d speak up about Eberflus being a problem, too. He has no answers for them. He simply makes the same bland, pointless statements about sticking together and staying tough. Words like that mean nothing when the losses start piling up. Good head coaches help provide solutions to problems when a team is struggling. Eberflus has not done that.
In truth, we’ve already seen this happen before. The head coach has proven once before that he can’t pull the team out of a tailspin. Matt Eberflus owns the longest losing streak in Bears history, with 14. The previous record was eight. Keep in mind that he only needs three more losses to tie that mark again. He could end up having the longest and second-longest losing streaks. No wonder the players are tired of him. He’s a loser, and they have all the evidence they need to prove it.
