Hot take alert I know
But there’s a big difference between what he’s done versus what guys like Nagy, Tristan, and others have: his side of the ball is playing well.
Nagy and Trestman were offensive background coaches who could not field competent offenses. While there is a lot of scrutiny of the Bears offense this year, the defense has turned it around lately after getting healthy and certain players stepping up.
If this defense finishes the year as a top 15 or 10 unit, wouldn’t it be counter productive to clean the entire house? Continuity on the defensive side of the ball and in the building may be what’s best for this team instead of another complete tear down. Players like Kyler Gordon, Jaquan Brisker, Dexter, Edwards, and others fit this scheme and are becoming comfortable in it and experienced in it. Bringing in a new coaching staff and scheme potentially means scheming some of these players out and starting from square one on developing and building a defense.
I see every reason to move on from Getsy and the current offense. And with a potential top QB available with the draft starting fresh on that side could be what’s best for the team. But that doesn’t have to include the D and Eberflus too.
I think the way the D plays the rest of the year is going to be the biggest determining factor in whether or not Eberflus is retained. We’ve also seen CJ Stroud succeed with a defensive minded head coach too so the old narrative that a young QB needs to be married to a young offensive minded HC isn’t necessary. Guys like Eric Bienemy may even be available to OC this off-season if Washington cleans house.
I’m not here to be a an apologist for Eberflus. He has had bad moments and should be on the hot seat. If his defense can’t keep it together the last half of the season then by all means he should be gone. But I also don’t wanna see the Bears come to some unnecessary conclusion that we have to tear everything down again and start from the beginning when their could potentially be ways to compete sooner.
Good coaches don’t lose 14 straight games.
Trestman couldn’t put together a competent offense?
The QBs we face the last 7 games of the year are:
-Jared Goff twice
-Josh Dobbs
-Jordan Love
-Desmond Ridder or Taylor Hieneke
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Dorian Thompson- Robinson with Watson done for the season
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Kyler Murray
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I’d rather let give Flus another year than let Poles pick another HC and waste even more years.
A defensive coach who has had league bottom defenses, and holds an offensive coordinator who doesn’t build systems to his players skill set… and yet this guy thinks it would be good for him to stick around.
Need to get rid of Getsy at least if we keep Flus
But there’s a big difference between what he’s done versus what guys like Nagy, Tristan, and others have: his side of the ball is playing well.
We have one of the lowest sack and pressure rates in the league. We’re near the highest points allowed per game. We’re dead last in turnover differential. Our defense is performing very much below expectations.
We have a defensive head coach and have a terrible defense and yet we’re going to bring him back with a record of 6 and 21. Truly fucking delusional. We have a good run defense because teams can just pass the ball with absolutely zero pass rush, its not because we actually have a good run defense.
He will 100% not be fired even if we lose out
But there’s a big difference between what he’s done versus what guys like Nagy, Tristan, and others have: his side of the ball is playing well.
I’m gonna have to stop you right there. You are comparing Bears coaches based on their predecessors, which is flawed at the outset. You should be comparing them to NFL coaches around the league.
Our coaches have all been terrible since the mid 2000’s. Being a high mark among Bears HCs is one of the lowest standards you can set.
Eberflus’ defense has improved against the run big time in 2023. I don’t take that for granted. But our pass defense and ability to generate pressure is not good enough. Eberflus is a “pretty solid” DC on good days, and that’s probably his peak.
If we get him a competent O coordinator, he can be successful.
The only people who want Eberflus fired are the fans. This is Ryan Poles team and Eberflus is HIS coach. He built the team with and for Eberflus. He made a weird trade and overpaid Sweat in an attempt to keep him as coach.
People talk about Poles being “forced” to sign Flus. If anything Flus is forcing him to hire someone else by continuing to stink. Would a new coach even want to run a 4-3? If not than the team is essentially totally starting over with worse players than we had in 2021. Poles does NOT want to do that - it makes every move he has made so far pointless.
QBs Flus has beaten: Trey Lance, Davis Mills, Mac Jones/Baily Zappe, Sam Howell, Brian Hoyer, Bryce Young
Coaches Flus has beaten: Kyle Shanahan, Lovie Smith (fired), Bill Belichick, Ron Rivera (likely fired), McDaniels (fired), Frank Reich (likely fired)
John Fox got a 3rd year, I think there is quite a good chance that Flus also gets a 3rd year.
Trestman’s offense the first year was one of the best in the NFL. Flus’ D has been one of the worst until we ran into a couple of bad offenses. Let’s see how it goes.