Flus didnt tell the field goal team or OC he wanted to go for it on 4th

[JordanSigler]

Chicago Bears coach said he didn't communicate with team on botched 4th down

The Chicago Bears botched a fourth down conversion against the Minnesota Vikings. Matt Eberflus explained what happened on the play.

www.chicitysports.com

 

[oso4lyf]

He stands up there week after week fucking something or various things up, takes the blame, and doesn't get shown the door.

 

[BaBaBlacksheep]

Chicago Bears coach said he didn't communicate with team on botched 4th down

The Chicago Bears botched a fourth down conversion against the Minnesota Vikings. Matt Eberflus explained what happened on the play.

www.chicitysports.com

Yeah that was bad

 

[bamainatlanta]

Decisiveness is another quality that he doesn’t have.

 

[discplayer]

He stands up there week after week fucking something or various things up, takes the blame, and doesn't get shown the door.

Except that he has NOT been regularly taking the blame. In fact, he's been consistently throwing others under the bus. This is the only time I can recall, anyway, his taking responsibility for a blunder. He's been all to quick to throw shade others' way.

 

[cameronkrazie86]

Love that they're still having basic communication issues 11 games into year 3. Such a well-oiled machine!

 

[jbunch14]

**** Matt Everlose and his fucking BEARD TOO!!!!!!!!!

 

[IBleedBearsBlood]

I’m sure Eberflus wanted to kick the ball. Williams said let’s go for it. And Eberflus said, ok. But forgot to flag special teams. I mean, how can you forget when you agreed to the change, 1 second before?

 

[greg23]

Melle mouthed, word salader, spineless, under qualified hire.......anybody expect anything else?

The more he gets exposed on a weekly basis the worse it looks for his suddenly hidden boss.

 

[bamainatlanta]

Love that they're still having basic communication issues 11 games into year 3. Such a well-oiled machine!

This. Remember he had to be told to go for 2 in the colts game

 

[roadwarrior_joe]

Its ironic how the owners want a HC that can get up and not embarrass the team. Yet here they allow this guy to do it week in and week out. Just goes to prove the McCaskeys are liars. Which I always felt they were. Take your team and move it. Don’t sell it just get it the f-ck out of this fan base.

 

[Butkus34]

Don't forget that Caleb and the offense have been better since T Brown insisted that only he have a direct line to CWs helmet audio

 

[bamainatlanta]

Don't forget that Caleb and the offense have been better since T Brown insisted that only he have a direct line to CWs helmet audio

Is that true?

 

[Dstone5553]

I’m sure Eberflus wanted to kick the ball. Williams said let’s go for it. And Eberflus said, ok. But forgot to flag special teams. I mean, how can you forget when you agreed to the change, 1 second before?

I thought you kick the FG there.

Even with our fucked up FG unit.

 

[SugarWalls]

@remydat told us all coaches like Andy Reid fck this sorta stuff up all the time and he’s basically as bad at game management as any other coach

 

[Black Rainbow]

“It’s just to the point where I have to do a better job of communicating everything to everybody, and if [Williams] was late then I might have been late, and then he was maybe late getting the call,” Eberflus said.

The first clause is unbelievable for an HC to say.

 

[EDPeezy]

Eberflus needs to be fired and part of the reason are that his teams are undisciplined and just not good at the small stuff. Stupid penalties and just general undisciplined play are a major problem. I’m not denying that. But pinpointing and blowing this specific incident up into this huge deal is just stupid.

Ever since it was pointed out post Washington fiasco that he never takes blame for anything he started doing this lame PR move where he’s now trying to take blame for everything. It’s essentially a canned response to any questions he gets about something that went wrong. It’s meaningless.

In the specific sequence it’s pretty understandable how things would be fluid and dependent on the down and distance. And while I wouldn’t mind the coach making a decision and sticking with it I can get how when you have your QB screaming to go for it and you want to put your trust in him and you want to prove you trust him you might let that affect your decision. And how that subsequently might make it hard for the field goal unit or offense to know what you’re doing and be confused. Ultimately though it didn’t really matter. They got the play off and just didn’t convert.

And it’s not like teams don’t have communication issues which result in all types of miscues, wasted timeouts and penalties. It happens. To act like this is just some unthinkable offense is a complete overreaction to a canned response by a coach in a press conference.

If you really want to be specific the delay of game in OT was worse than what occurred here. But because Eberflus didn’t give his meaningless “that was my fault” answer, its being pushed to the side while this incident is being blown up into this massive mistake when in reality it didn’t even matter. They‘ve also been really good at converting fourth downs lately which makes this whole thing even dumber, but whatever. People want their pound of flesh and if he’s going to give it to them by taking blame they’ll happily eat It up because they’re so mad they just want anything to ***** about and give them fuel for their “its all on him” narrative.

 

[Canth]

Is that true?

I can't find it now, but yeah there was something that came out of one of the press conferences last week that Thomas Brown made it so that he and Caleb have a channel to themselves. However, I think that was specific to the sideline comms. Basically, after a drive, Brown and Williams will talk 1-1 and then he let's Caleb go get ready for the next drive.

 

[legendxofxlink]

This shit needs to be understood before the previous play. You already should have your mind made up on what you’re going to do. No time to sit there with your team confused. Flus is not HC material.