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Originally Posted by AlwaysSunnyinIndy (Post 222578)

Eberflus may wind up taking much of this year's defensive staff with him to Chicago.

https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/sta...91215991009289

Not sure where I read it but I think Ballard is looking to completely revamp the D coaching now and expects pretty much a total re tool of the D

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Originally Posted by AlwaysSunnyinIndy (Post 222578)

Eberflus may wind up taking much of this year's defensive staff with him to Chicago.

Apparently now official per Schefter. Safeties coach Alan Williams is joining Eberflus and the Bears as their Defensive Coordinator.

https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/sta...35083989995526

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Bears are hiring Colts’ safeties coach Alan Williams as their defensive coordinator, per sources.

Did Eberflus and all of those coaches flee a sinking ship (Colts)? I'm starting to wonder...

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Originally Posted by Brylok (Post 222991)

Did Eberflus and all of those coaches flee a sinking ship (Colts)? I'm starting to wonder...

9 win season, with a very good O line, best running back and a D that has several standout players is not a sinking ship.

Perfect? No. It is also not a disaster

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Originally Posted by Brylok (Post 222991)

Did Eberflus and all of those coaches flee a sinking ship (Colts)? I'm starting to wonder...

no. it was all upward movement on their parts.

Article from the Chicago area with quotes from Leonard and Moore:

https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2...-matt-eberflus

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LAS VEGAS — With so much to do in their first weeks on the job, Bears general manager Ryan Poles and coach Matt Eberflus probably forgot the Pro Bowl was even happening this week. Most people do anyway.

But their fingerprints are all over it.

The AFC roster for Sunday’s game has six Chiefs, including four that Poles helped draft. And Eberflus’ old team, the Colts, sent a league-high seven players — three from his top-10 defense.

And at least a few of them credit those two for helping them get here. It’d be easy for any of these players to offer a trite “nice guy; wish him well,” line, but some of them simply couldn’t stop raving.

Remember the H.I.T.S. acronym that Eberflus laid out in his opening press conference Monday? The one that sounded like it would be most suited delivered on PowerPoint in an office conference room?

You’d think his former players would be happy they don’t have to hear about it anymore.

“No, I’ll miss it,” said Colts inside linebacker Darius Leonard. “That H.I.T.S. principle made me who I am.”

Made him who he is? Those are thunderously significant words from a three-time all-pro.

The Colts drafted Leonard in the second round out of South Carolina State in 2018, and he was an almost-instant star despite “not really knowing the game,” as he put it. He led the NFL in tackles with 163, forced four fumbles, had seven sacks and intercepted two passes.

He went on to earn a five-year, $99.3 million contract extension last summer, and he gives a lot of credit to Eberflus and linebackers coach Dave Borgonzi — one of three assistants Eberflus brought with him, along with defensive coordinator Alan Williams and defensive backs coach James Rowe — for turning him into one of the league’s most dominant defensive players.

“He did everything for me,” Leonard said. “He taught me the game, especially as a rookie, going in early in the morning and having a walk-through with just him and Borgonzi, learning the playbook and stuff like that. I’ve got athletic ability, but he put the game plan up.”

One of the most interesting things to watch with Eberflus, Williams and Borgonzi is whether they can maximize a similar talent in Bears linebacker Roquan Smith.

As far as the understated, businesslike persona Eberflus presented in his opening press conference, Leonard and Kenny Moore said that’s not how he is all the time. That might be the tone in front of the media or when running a meeting, but Eberflus ratchets it up a couple notches once practice starts.

“He has calm days, but he has his days where he needs to get everybody going,” Moore said. “He has the ‘social skills’ to get a player’s attention.”

Leonard added, “When he gets on the field, he demands absolutely everything out of his guys... In the press conference, he’ll do what he needs to do, but then he’ll go into the locker room and demand excellence. That’s what you need.”

The Bears will get a similar approach from Williams, who has two decades of experience coaching in the NFL. He was the Vikings’ defensive coordinator in 2012 and ’13, then spent four seasons as the Lions’ defensive backs coach before joining Eberflus in that role with the Colts.

Four-time Pro Bowl cornerback Darius Slay, now with the Eagles, enjoyed his four seasons playing for Williams so much that they still talk regularly.

“They got a good dude in him,” Slay said of the Bears. “Straight honest. And even if the honesty was negative, he was gonna give it to you in a respectful way, and that’s what it’s all about. Solid guy. I love him.”

Slay also said it was Williams’ idea in Detroit for Quandre Diggs to move from corner to safety. He has since made the Pro Bowl twice at his new position. The Bears could use some of that outside-the-box thinking to revamp their depleted secondary.

Poles, meanwhile, isn’t quite as widely known since he spent his entire career until now in the Chiefs’ personnel department. He wouldn’t have had nearly as much interaction with players as the coaching staff did, but he was around enough to earn some respect.

“You could just tell by his walk,” safety Tyrann Mathieu said. “The guy has some purpose in it. He’s always evaluating. He’s one of those guys that really has an eye for talent. He’s helped us find some gems. I’m sure he’ll do a great job for Chicago.

“And when you run into him in the hallway, he’s easy to talk to. You can’t say that for everybody on the personnel side.”

The successes that led to Poles and Eberflus having an imprint on the Pro Bowl rosters, however, is reflective of their past. Their task now is to replicate that with the Bears, and they surely grasp the project they’ve taken on after the team went 6-11 last season and cleaned house. Their only Pro Bowlers were outside linebacker Robert Quinn and special teamer Jakeem Grant. It’s up to Poles and Eberflus to make sure the Bears have a much larger delegation going forward.

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Originally Posted by JAFF (Post 223003)

9 win season, with a very good O line, best running back and a D that has several standout players is not a sinking ship.

Perfect? No. It is also not a disaster

But it is a team that couldn't, with those " standout players ", beat the lowly Jaguars with the playoffs on the line !! If not a sinking ship, one that is starting to take on water !!!

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Originally Posted by Puck (Post 222410)

Lovie is an Associate Head Coach with the Texans.

The Texans have had a crazy interview process.

It now appears that they are going to drop the "Associate" from Lovie's title and make him the Head Coach even though he wasn't one of the three finalists for the job. I assume that the GM Caserio still wanted to have a coach's headset on game days and that turned some coaches off. Also have to wonder if Flores lawsuit impacted the final decision as well.

https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1490717269529296896

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The Texans are moving towards naming Lovie Smith their head coach for 2022, sources tell Tom Pelissero, Mike Garafolo and me.

No deal is done, but it’s headed that way

https://twitter.com/MikeGarafolo/sta...17911664705541

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As for Josh McCown, who seemed to be the Texans’ guy for much of their search, sources say there’s a possibility he could join Lovie Smith’s coaching staff, though those talks have yet to really happen. Pep Hamilton is expected to stick with the team as offensive coordinator.

HAHA! Pep Hamilton. I forgot about that dude.

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Originally Posted by Puck (Post 222352)

https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/sta...987133963?s=20

Adam Schefter

@AdamSchefter

Former Colts’ defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus is being hired as the head coach of the Chicago Bears, per sources.

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(3 YEARS LATER)

I just watched this with my own lying eyes ......

Bears Lose to Lions After Matt Eberflus Doesn’t Take a Timeout, Lets Clock Run Out

(By Randy Oliver)

https://dailysnark.com/2024/11/28/be...clock-run-out/

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Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles (Post 313345)

Man that was crazy, they went from in the redzone with a chance to win to totally blowing the game after a penalty

Eberflus finds new ways to lose games each and every week. That was inexcusable against the Lions. Caleb should also assume some blame for that, but ultimately Eberflus shit the bed again. He won't be a HC much longer.

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Originally Posted by Spike (Post 313358)

And then backed it up in the post game saying he liked what they did there.

I don't understand how as of 9:16 PM he is still listed as the HC? If I was the owner I would have first, notified the Police to go ahead and have charges ready, would have fired him, and then proceeded to beat the living shit out of him, and then I would have sent a video of it to his family telling them I hope they enjoy the Thanksgiving gift of seeing him getting beat up for being an idiot!

Worst end of game situation in all the days I have watched football. WOW!

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Originally Posted by ChoppedWood (Post 313366)

And then backed it up in the post game saying he liked what they did there.

I don't understand how as of 9:16 PM he is still listed as the HC? If I was the owner I would have first, notified the Police to go ahead and have charges ready, would have fired him, and then proceeded to beat the living shit out of him, and then I would have sent a video of it to his family telling them I hope they enjoy the Thanksgiving gift of seeing him getting beat up for being an idiot!

Worst end of game situation in all the days I have watched football. WOW!

Unbelievable. Well, you can't fix stupid, but you sure can fire stupid.

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Originally Posted by ChoppedWood (Post 313366)

And then backed it up in the post game saying he liked what they did there.

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Originally Posted by Spike (Post 313369)

Unbelievable ...... well, you can't fix stupid, but you sure can fire stupid.

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Jim Caldwell said the same thing, immediately after the Colts' 2010 Wildcard playoff loss to the Jets ......

Colts coach Jim Caldwell said on Sunday that he doesn't regret calling a late timeout that actually might have helped the New York Jets' winning drive in the previous night's AFC wild-card playoff game.

Caldwell Cites Many Factors in Colts Calling Late Timeout vs. Jets

(NFL.com News)

https://www.nfl.com/news/caldwell-ci...000d5d81d91943

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Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles (Post 313370)

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Look at the expression on Peyton Manning's face, followed by his helpless hand-gesture immediately after the timeout was called at the 1:55:12 mark of this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y48nV0UR1E

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Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles (Post 313370)

Yep, an immediately firable offense righ then and there as well.

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Originally Posted by Spike (Post 313358)

Deer in the headlights !!

He gone.

The Bears are firing Eberflus according to Al Breer.

https://x.com/AlbertBreer/status/1862547178582855706

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Source: The Bears are firing Matt Eberflus.

https://x.com/TomPelissero/status/1862547288360444093

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OC Thomas Brown will be the interim coach.

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Originally Posted by AlwaysSunnyinIndy (Post 313398)

He gone.

The Bears are firing Eberflus according to Al Breer.

https://x.com/AlbertBreer/status/1862547178582855706

https://x.com/TomPelissero/status/1862547288360444093

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You always upstage me by posting information that is more pertinent than what I post ...... you bastard.

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Hall-Of-Fame Coach Jimmy Johnson: Never Seen ‘Dysfunction’ Like Matt Eberflus’ Error vs. Lions

(By Jason Lieser)

https://chicago.suntimes.com/bears/2...error-vs-lions

The Bears are a punchline yet again, and the sports-media world feasted on coach Matt Eberflus’ mismanagement at the end of their 23-20 loss to the Lions on Thursday.

As the clock wound down and the Bears tried to tie or win the game, it ended on an incomplete pass from rookie quarterback Caleb Williams as time expired. Eberflus allowed the clock to wind from 32 seconds to 6 seconds between plays, and left the game with one timeout unused.

“In 70 years of coaching, I’ve never seen dysfunction that cost a team an opportunity to win the game,” Hall-Of-Fame coach Jimmy Johnson said on the Fox studio show at halftime of the Giants-Cowboys game.

“He’s got a rookie quarterback, and different teams do it different ways. I handled clock management and timeouts. Sometimes the quarterback and coach do it. Sometimes the coach has a coach in the box talking to him about clock management.

“But when Eberflus saw that they were off-track and there was dysfunction, he should’ve called timeout.”

The loss was the Bears’ 6th in a row, dropping them to 4-8 this season and Eberflus to 14-32 in his tenure.

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Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles (Post 313403)

The loss was the Bears’ 6th in a row, dropping them to 4-8 this season and Eberflus to 14-32 in his tenure.

I thought the below stat was interesting...nearly half of the games that Eberflus coached were decided by 7 points or less.

And the Bears had an abysmal record in those games - Flus ranks dead last among all coaches with 20 such games as part of their record.

https://x.com/JoshDubowAP/status/1862242437932126545

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221 coaches have had 20+ career games decided by 7 points or fewer.

Matt Eberflus' .227 win percentage in those games (5-17) ranks 221st

Eberflus was absolutely atrocious as a HC, solely because of his lack of time management and situational awareness skills.

Still, I would take him in a heartbeat over Bradley as a DC.

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Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles (Post 313345)

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A Brutal Loss, a Volatile Locker Room, and a Weird Zoom: Inside the Bears’ Firing of Matt Eberflus

(By Courtney Cronin)

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...s-thomas-brown

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