How Bout Dem Bears?

I hate this team

Leavinga man unmarked in the end zone on a hail Mary, Jesus Christ. Still we had no business winning that.

Have seen footage of Stevenson mocking the Washington fans DURING the hail Mary play, with his back to the play at the snap. Then goes in and tips the ball to the receiver. These are not serious people.

Lots of blame to go round on that play though, especially for not calling a timeout to plan for it and get the right personnel out. But overall that's a great defense. It's hard to blame them for the loss because of one play, when you're watching the oline all day. My God it's unforgivable to have Williams behind that ****

Yeah, offensive-line is bad. Caleb really had no chance until the 4th quarter, when I guess the Commanders' defensive line tired. Hard to see the team really do anything this season with that o-line. I can see them scraping into a playoff wildcard spot, but going no further.

Note: apparently sweat had an injury and was designated doubtful to return so that's fair enough. By some accounts Stevenson was actually designated to cover the end zone, but no confirmation there. If so, he needs to be benched for the dereliction, which he should be anyway tbh. I saw Byard in an interview openly questioned the call on the play just before it where they have up 13 yards to set up the hail Mary, he felt at the time they should have contested that and have a pretty detailed explanation of how they should have done it, more or less calling out his own coach (flus said in his press conference that he didn't think that play was important, which is amazing given the announcers were able to predict what happened on it. But flus seemed to be taking no accountability at all for anything about the finish, his players have shown way, way more leadership than he has, which is very worrying).

Can only hope everyone learns from yesterday and is driven to be better. The offense got it together at the end, and the defense were stellar until right at the end, so it's not time to despair, it was just a heartbreaking loss, and a stupid one. Stupid heartbreaking loss in games we should win are a bit of an eberflus specialty though.

Nothing doing on a couple of blatant pass interference calls on the bears last drive but they’re calling leverage there. Absolute joke.

Williams gets blitzed to pieces on 4th and 11.

This is a grim way to spend a Sunday evening.

Why is it that we're here once again? Shambolic coaching all day, players have quit, and a quarterbacks development has been ruined. It could be any time in the last decade really.

I'm thinking of a bit in Hard Knocks where Poles was agonizing over cutting some player or other, and he wondered to himself whether he was keeping him because he liked him as a person or because it was the best thing for the team. Eberflus seems like a very likeable person. Not very charismatic and clearly not a good head coach, but likeable. And I'm starting to wonder if Poles just has this weakness where he won't be ruthless for the team. The whole culture of the team, in fact, seems pretty soft right now, and the players are losing their patience with it too. Can't see us getting past six wins this season now, possibly even fewer. The best time to fire eberflus was last year but the second best time is now. Show the players you recognize the problem.

But they won't do it. We are who we thought we were.

How long will it take the bears to realise matt eberflus sucks?

Jesus that was an absolutely vomit inducing first half. Pathetic.

Rumours they will fire Eberflus if he loses today. God I hope so, can't imagine the team are even one bit interested in listening to him anymore. Not that they're blameless themselves! This is an atrocious Patriots team and we can't convert a single third down on them

Punt the ball all day interspersed with pre snap penalties and sacks.

I've heard bears fans boo before but I've never seen it as bad as today, and the body language of the players is completely awful. Eberflus surely can't survive this? Why would you keep him to the end of the season, there's nothing he can do at this point that will convince me he won't be fired, so why not just do it and start rebuilding things right now?

I was originally going to go to San Francisco for that game with my brother (9ers fan), kinda glad I don't have to watch that now!