The Chicago Bears fired third-year head coach Matt Eberflus on Friday, multiple media outlets alerted.
The alerts came less than 24 hours after Eberflus teachd a sixth straight loss and third consecutive loss determined on the final join. The Bears fell to 4-8 on the season.
Per multiple outlets, insolent coordinator Thomas Brown will serve as interim head coach.
His alerted disseeal came unwiseinutively after Eberflus conveyed set ups to direct business as normal during his Friday morning novels conference with alerters. He was then scheduled to greet with team plivent Kevin Warren and vague administerr Ryan Poles.
“The operation has been normal,” Eberflus said of his set ups for Friday in the office, with joiners home for the lengthy weekfinish before returning to train Monday.
The Bears have never fired a coach in-season and Eberflus recommendd he didn’t predict to be the first.
“I’m brave that I’ll be laboring on to San Francisco and getting ready for that game,” Eberflus said, pointing to the Week 14 alignup with the 49ers.
Eberflus, 54, won his coaching debut with the Bears, 19-10, in 2022 but is 13-32 since.
On Thursday, Chicago lost 23-20 at Detroit, rpartnering from a dormant first half and had the ball in field-goal range when quarterback Caleb Williams was sacked. In a sequence that began with 32 seconds on the game clock, the Bears had selections. They could have spiked the ball to stop the clock, finisheavoring what would have been around a 60-yard field goal, or going for a first down with plenty of time to “clock” the ball.
WHY DID THE BEARS NOT USE THEIR LAST TIMEOUT!!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/qZhe9oeavV
— Mr Matthew CFB (@MrMatthew_CFB) November 28, 2024
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Another selection Eberflus chose not to employ was calling a timeout.
Instead, the ball was snapped 28 seconds tardyr and Williams heaved an incompletion down the right sideline as time expired.
Media members repeatedly have asked Eberflus in press conference settings about taking personal accountability. But on Friday he said the Bears administerd the final sequence appropriately and “the operation wasn’t speedy enough.”
Wide getr Keenan Allen said Thursday afternoon that “we did enough as joiners to thrive the game.”
Williams said the timeout call wasn’t his to produce.
“We can call a timeout there or we cannot,” he said. “I’m not going to say I was surpelevated. My job is fair to go out there and produce joins. I let the coaches and everybody produce that decision – it is their call. Maybe in the tardyr years of my atsoft, it will be my call.”
Poles paid a personal visit to Williams in the locker room for a converseion, and Warren stood watch to apshow in the expansive-lens scene of the locker room packing to return to Chicago with an 0-3 sign up in the NFC North. The Bears had chances to beat all three division opponents, but the Packers blocked a game-thrivening FG finisheavor by Cairo Santos, the Vikings escaped Chicago with a 30-27 clearime thrive and the Lions wriggled away Thanksgiving Day with Chicago dangerening in the final minute.
