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Re: 2024 Chicago Bears
« Reply #825 on: November 27, 2024, 12:12:00 am »
We have the QB of the future.  We have some good talent.  We just need to fix the coaching and add to both lines.
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Re: 2024 Chicago Bears
« Reply #826 on: November 28, 2024, 06:41:29 am »
Happy Thanksgiving!  Go Bears!

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Re: 2024 Chicago Bears
« Reply #827 on: November 29, 2024, 11:46:34 am »
Thank god it’s finally over.
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Re: 2024 Chicago Bears
« Reply #828 on: November 29, 2024, 01:21:48 pm »
Putting him on a zoom at 9a twisting in the wind while Warren and Poles work frantically on their separate corporate drafts highlighted the Bears further in a bad light.  The laugh emoji by Brisker as soon as the zoom opened showed exactly what the players were thinking.  I am not the biggest Eberflus fan in the world but that was classless on all fronts.  The whole morning before 11a was almost McGinnis-esque.

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Re: 2024 Chicago Bears
« Reply #829 on: November 29, 2024, 01:56:29 pm »
Plus that delay further cements that Ryan and Kevin were literally waiting for George to make the final call.  Unfortunately, the final call for the new HC will be made by "just a fan."

Well at least Caleb doesn't look like a bust.

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Re: 2024 Chicago Bears
« Reply #830 on: November 29, 2024, 02:58:40 pm »
Hope Brown can handle head coaching along with the offense.
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Re: 2024 Chicago Bears
« Reply #831 on: November 29, 2024, 04:05:47 pm »

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Re: 2024 Chicago Bears
« Reply #832 on: November 29, 2024, 05:08:01 pm »
Everything is focused on yesterday's game. Eberflus has been screwing up all along. He shouldn't have been retained last season...

I don't care one bit about this being classless. The guy had to go, and it's done.. Thank God!!!
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Re: 2024 Chicago Bears
« Reply #833 on: November 29, 2024, 05:11:24 pm »
The guy simply was not head coaching material. Then on top of that, he was running the D and not keeping his eye on the whole picture..
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Re: 2024 Chicago Bears
« Reply #834 on: November 29, 2024, 05:18:18 pm »
Everything is focused on yesterday's game. Eberflus has been screwing up all along. He shouldn't have been retained last season...

I don't care one bit about this being classless. The guy had to go, and it's done.. Thank God!!!

Right, I check out the score, espn Chicago and podcasts and mostly they’re up in arms about why they had to check in with the 9am press conference by Flus if he was going to be fired later.  I don’t care it was still the morning after the game.

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Re: 2024 Chicago Bears
« Reply #835 on: November 29, 2024, 10:05:16 pm »
The Bears were in typical clusterfuck mode.  Everybody anticipated the 9a presser.  But the zoom link which normally was sent to media several hours before was literally sent minutes before 9a.  Then the note with the link said "participant - TBD."  And then to no one's surprise, Eberflus mug shows up.  I heard the live feed on 1000 and it was brutal.  "Brain trust" took "multiple hours" to make a decision?  On the guy who insisted on keeping Waldron and put him in the booth?  Or rewrote the record books on his improbable consistent habit of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?

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One lingering question from today’s bombshell in Chicago: Why did the #Bears have Matt Eberflus speak to the media hours before firing him?
 
My understanding is George McCaskey, Kevin Warren and Ryan Poles had just begun a meeting that lasted multiple hours when Eberflus’ regularly scheduled press conference started. A delay would’ve pointed towards a change that at that point hadn’t been decided. By the time the decision was finalized, the presser was long over and Eberflus was informed.
 
Now the Bears’ brain trust has a five-week jumpstart on a search to fill what should be a coveted job.
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Re: 2024 Chicago Bears
« Reply #836 on: November 30, 2024, 12:05:36 am »
They literally do nothing right, it's absurd. Can't even fire a guy right much less hire one. This search ought to be a real circus as we've seen times before.... ::)

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Re: 2024 Chicago Bears
« Reply #837 on: November 30, 2024, 06:28:57 am »
That is the most disturbing thing- the "brain trust" still can't do even the most obvious things correctly. Whether Brown works out or not the next big fear is that if Brown is maintained as HC (he would check the box of coming cheap), that idiot OLine coach will be retained yet again and the Caleb will have his life expectancy reduced next season.

This team cannot seem to get anything right. There is one common thing since the end of the Lovie era (and there were a lot of flags back then as well)- George.

It may be time to send to George to the cornfield and bring up the next bozo McCaskey in line.....
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Re: 2024 Chicago Bears
« Reply #838 on: November 30, 2024, 06:51:09 am »
Drives me nuts how this season was wasted with a win now roster.  Why did Poles allow an insecure Eberflus to hire non-threatening nervous Nellie as OC over Kingsbury or Brown?  Brown did not have the extensive OC chops that Waldron did.  But Brown is more highly regarded among league circles and players.  Did Poles insist on bringing Brown on board as a stop gap?  From what I heard Kevin and Ian were ready to move on from Eberflus from the get go.  Aside from Harbaugh, George wasn't going to get in the way.  The responsibility of delaying the inevitable lies solely on Ryan Poles.

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Re: 2024 Chicago Bears
« Reply #839 on: November 30, 2024, 07:08:47 am »
Yeah Chris Morgan wore out his welcome long ago and reeks of Eberflus futility.  Brown should ship him out and promote assistant OL coach Jason Houghtaling just to get a different voice in the room.  Vrabel liked him enough to promote him to OL coach last year for the Titans.