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After promising to judge every thing following Sunday’s 19-3 loss to the New England Patriots, Chicago Bears head coach Matt Eberflus delivered two days later by firing offensive coordinator Shane Waldron.
Waldron is out 10 video games into his first season on Eberflus’ workers. ESPN’s Adam Schefter first reported the firing. Thomas Brown will substitute Waldron because the Bears’ offensive coordinator.
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Eberflus told reporters on Sunday that he was going to judge “every thing from high to backside” after the Bears misplaced their third straight recreation.
Whereas there isn’t any scarcity of blame to go round for the crew, the primary supply of criticism has concerned Waldron and the offensive construction round rookie quarterback Caleb Williams.
The Bears have scored fewer than 20 factors in 5 of 9 video games this season. They’ve scored a complete of 27 factors and are averaging 230 yards per contest throughout their present three-game shedding streak.
Questions on Waldron’s job standing began percolating after a 29-9 loss to the Arizona Cardinals on Nov. 3, however Eberflus said afterward that he would not be making adjustments to the teaching workers:
“We’re sitting at 4-4. Proper now that is the place we’re and it is essential that we give attention to this week. That is all we are able to management and doing a greater job of placing our guys in place as coaches to achieve success and that is in the end my job and the coordinator’s job secondly. So it is essential that we do a fantastic job of that with the place coaches, partnering up with gamers and placing these guys in place to succeed.”
Sunday’s loss to the Patriots was the bottom level in what has been a disappointing season for the Bears. Williams completed 16-of-30 for 120 yards and was sacked 9 instances by a New England protection that had a complete of 16 sacks in its first 9 video games.
The Bears did Williams a disservice in some methods by sticking with Eberflus as head coach as a substitute of going embracing a full reset after final season.
The argument for protecting Eberflus regardless of a second straight shedding document was that Chicago’s protection performed effectively on the finish of final season, serving to the crew go 5-3 over its remaining eight video games. Nevertheless, three of these 5 wins had been in video games with Bryce Younger, Joshua Dobbs and Taylor Heinicke beginning at quarterback for the opposing groups.
Now, Eberflus is in job-preservation mode as he seems to keep away from his third straight shedding season. Williams has to work with a brand new offensive coordinator throughout his rookie season, and he may need one other new one going into 2025 if the Bears make a change at head coach after this yr.
Waldron was employed as Chicago’s offensive coordinator in January after spending the earlier three years in the identical position with the Seattle Seahawks below head coach Pete Carroll.
The Bears at present rank twenty fourth in factors per recreation (19.4), thirtieth in yards per recreation (277.7) and thirtieth in move yards per recreation (169.6). They’re solely two video games behind the Inexperienced Bay Packers for the ultimate playoff spot within the NFC main into Sunday’s showdown between the division rivals at Soldier Subject.
