Chicago Bears fire head coach Matt Eberflus after shocking mistake in Thanksgiving loss to the Lions

The Chicago Bears have fired Matt Eberflus aft his huge mistake successful their Thanksgiving nonaccomplishment to the Detroit Lions.

Many thought Eberflus' occupation was harmless for present aft helium completed his accustomed post-game Zoom telephone with reporters connected Friday morning.

While not straight speaking astir his future, Eberflus said things were 'normal' and helium was moving connected the team's crippled against the San Francisco 49ers on December 8. 

However, NFL insiders are present reporting that Eberflus has been fired. It’s the archetypal clip successful franchise past that the Bears person fired a caput manager during the season.

It's besides claimed that unit person been told astir the determination and violative coordinator Thomas Brown volition instrumentality implicit arsenic interim coach. 

It comes little than 24 hours aft the Bears had the accidental to cause a immense daze astatine Ford Field on Thursday but squandered it astatine the death.

Eberflus made a messiness of the last play of the crippled and allowed clip to expire erstwhile the Bears inactive had a accidental of making a tract extremity that would person sent the crippled to overtime.

Chicago sits astatine 4-8 for the play and Eberflus oversaw an underwhelming archetypal NFL play for backmost Caleb Williams, the No. 1 wide prime successful this year's draft.

The mode of the nonaccomplishment successful Detroit heaped much unit connected Eberflus, with the Bears past successful the NFC North.

Rookie backmost Williams, meanwhile, completed 20 of 39 passes for 256 yards and 3 touchdowns.

Eberflus appeared to blasted backmost Williams for however the dying moments of the team's nonaccomplishment to the Lions unfolded, contempt refusing to telephone a timeout that could person saved the game.

The Bears had the shot successful Lions territory precocious successful the crippled with a accidental to thrust for a game-tying tract extremity oregon go-ahead touchdown, but they blew the accidental earlier losing 23-20 - their sixth consecutive loss.

Williams threw an incomplete walk arsenic clip expired from the Detroit 41 aft being sacked with astir 30 seconds left, with the squad allowing clip to tally disconnected the timepiece adjacent though Chicago had 1 much timeout.

The Bears were scrambling to signifier their enactment aft Williams was sacked, contempt Eberflus having a accidental to halt the clock.

'We instrumentality the sack close determination and truthful we are astatine 36 seconds close there,' Eberflus said. 'And our anticipation was that due to the fact that it was 3rd going into distant that we rack that play astatine 18 seconds, propulsion it successful bounds and get into tract extremity scope and telephone the clip out.

'That was our determination making process connected that. We were extracurricular of tract extremity scope truthful we needed to get a fewer much yards successful there, arsenic adjacent arsenic we tin get, and past we were going to telephone clip out.

'That's wherefore we held that past clip retired astatine the extremity of the game. Like I said, disappointing for the players who enactment a batch of enactment successful a abbreviated week and enactment themselves successful presumption to triumph that game.

'I similar what we did there. Again, erstwhile it's nether 7 (seconds), you're going to telephone a timeout determination - really nether 12 and past truly you don't person an enactment due to the fact that it's 3rd to fourth, you person to propulsion it into the extremity portion then. 

'To maine it's - I deliberation we handled it the close way, I bash judge that you conscionable re-rack the play, get it successful bounds and telephone timeout and that's wherefore we held it and didn't enactment retired the mode we wanted it to.'

In the aftermath of the game, analysts each laid the blasted with Eberflus.

'Man I consciousness for you Bears fans. That was conscionable brutal. Literal coaching malpractice,' J.J. Watt said connected X. 'What successful the implicit satellite was that? The extremity of crippled absorption by them aggregate times this twelvemonth is perfectly BAFFLING.'

Stephen A. Smith blamed Eberflus too, saying: 'No timeout. Not spiking if the ball. You get disconnected conscionable 1 play successful the last 26 seconds. 

'Is determination immoderate much impervious needed for the Chicago Bears and their fans everyplace that a caller manager is needed? That it’s clip for a change?'

Former NFL backmost Matt Ryan said connected CBS: 'This is unacceptable from the caput manager position. 

'Your work is to not panic successful captious situations. To enactment your squad successful the champion accidental to triumph games. That's a massive, monolithic neglect by Matt Eberflus.'