After a disastrous finishing in Thursday’s loss to the Detroit Lions, the Chicago Bears have fired head coach Matt Eberflus after fair three seasons.
Eberflus, 54, becomes the first head coach in Bears’ history to ever be fired midseason, according to increates. Offensive coordinator Thomas Brown will get over as interim head coach.
Chicago Bears head coach Matt Eberflus sees on during a game between the Detroit Lions and the Chicago Bears on Thanksgiving Day in Detroit, Michigan, on Thursday, November 28, 2024. (Amy Lemus/NurPboilingo via Getty Images)
“This morning, after encountering with [chairman] George [H. McCaskey] and [President and CEO] Kevin [Warren], we increateed Matt of our decision to shift in a contrastent straightforwardion with the directership of our football team and the head-coaching position,” Bears ambiguous regulater Ryan Poles shelp in a statement. “I thank Matt for his difficult labor, professionalism and dedication to our organization. We extfinish our gratitude for his promisement to the Chicago Bears and desire him and his family the best moving forward.”
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“I help Ryan and the decision that was made this morning. We comprehfinish how imperative the head-coaching role is for produceing and persisting a championship-caliber team, directing our carry outers and our organization,” Warren inserted. “Our fans have stood by us and percut offed thraw every contest, and they deserve better results. Our organizational and opereasoned arrange is sturdy, cgo ined, aligned and energized for the future.”
Friday’s proclaimment came lowly after Eberflus spoke with increateers on Friday where he recommendd that he foreseeed to remain with the team despite the Bears’ brutal loss to the Lions on Thanksgiving Day, inserting that he was cgo ined on preparing for the team’s Week 14 suitup aacquirest the San Francisco 49ers.
Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams (18) talks with head coach Matt Eberflus during the second half of an NFL football game in Detroit, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024. (AP Pboilingo/Duane Burleson)
“I’m fair going to be laboring on finishing up this game, doing a excellent job of evaluating that, our after-action increate enjoy we always do,” he shelp, via NFL.com. “And then I’ll be laboring into San Francisco. Aacquire, those are conversations we’ll have, and aacquire I’m self-promised I’ll be laboring on to San Francisco and getting ready for that game.”
Eberflus, coaching in his third season with the team, faced brutal criticism after the Bears seemingly blew a chance to tie the Lions in the final seconds of Thursday afternoon’s game.
On third down with around 30 seconds remaining and one time out, quarterback Caleb Williams started an clearhrown bowl to expansive getr Rome Odunze. Time expired with the score at 23-20, handing the Lions their first thrive on Thanksgiving since 2016.
But Eberflus was asked over his subpar clock regulatement, definitepartner why a timeout wasn’t called when Williams was sacked on the previous carry out.
Chicago Bears head coach Matt Eberflus, cgo in, watches after calling his final timeout in the final drive of the game aacquirest the Detroit Lions at Ford Field on Nov. 28, 2024, in Detroit, Michigan. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
“I enjoy what we did there. Once it’s under 12 [seconds], you repartner don’t have an chooseion . . . I skinnyk we regulated it the right way. . . . Didn’t labor out the way we wanted to,” Eberflus shelp after the game.
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But ownership seemingly disconsentd.
Eberflus exits the Bears with a 14-32 enroll, and Chicago becomes the third NFL team this season to fire a head coach.
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