friday morning chicago bears Head coach Matt Eberflus held a press conference to provide an update on the status of the franchise following Thursday's loss. detroit lionsdropping the team to 4 wins and 8 losses on the season and falling to last place in the NFC North.
Hours later, he was no longer included as head coach due to the franchise's situation.
Eberflus was fired by the team after the team suffered its sixth straight loss on Thursday against the Lions. The loss to Detroit also included the team's recent late-game meltdown, which dates back to the team's loss. commander of washington Back at the end of October. With just seconds left in the game, the Bears held a 15-12 lead and were within striking distance of falling to 5-2 on the season.
But then, on the final play of the game, Jaden Daniels connected on a Hail Mary, giving Washington an 18-15 win, dropping Chicago to 4-3 and beginning a six-game losing streak.
Thursday's loss to the Lions was yet another disaster late in the game. After trailing 23-7 in the second half, the Bears scored 13 unanswered points in the fourth quarter and came within a field goal. Chicago had a chance to force overtime late in the game as Caleb Williams drove the Bears into field goal range after starting their final drive of the game from their own 1-yard line. However, with more than 30 seconds remaining after Chicago took a timeout, Williams was sacked and the offense then made a play, but the pass was incomplete as time expired. Chicago left the field with its final timeout in hand.
After the game, Eberflus defended his team's management in the final stages, saying the end was done “the right way”.
“I like what I did there,” Everflus said. said. “Once again, if it gets below 7 o'clock, [seconds]it's actually less than 12 and I'd call timeout there, but it's actually the 3rd to 4th so I don't have an option. In that case, you need to throw it into the end zone.
“For me, it's — I think we responded the right way. I believe we just replayed the play, put it in the box and called a timeout. So we held it and did what we wanted. It didn't turn out to be a good result.''
The front office apparently disagreed:
Thomas Brown has been appointed on an interim basis, making this his second promotion this season. Brown started the year as the passing game coordinator, but was named offensive coordinator after the team fired Shane Waldron.
Now he's adding interim head coach of the Bears to his growing resume.
