2024 NFL Trash Talk Thread...

stroker said:

.....aaaaaaaaaand, Eberflus is gone.  No surprise.

He had to be fired, I don't think I've seen a worse late game decision, or at least that i can remember off hand.

Maybe Ezekiel Elliot playing center ?

stroker said:

.....aaaaaaaaaand, Eberflus is gone.  No surprise.

what kind of owners have him do his day after press conference and then AFTER that issue a statement that he was fired...  The bears are an entirely broken franchise.  
https://awfulannouncing.com/nfl/matt-eberflus-fired-meeting-with-media.html

 

stroker said:

.....aaaaaaaaaand, Eberflus is gone.  No surprise.

It's always too bad to see someone get fired in the middle of the season. But he earned it, sadly. 

In reply to ClearWaterMS :

And there is that. Which is fine for the rest of the nfc-n

stroker said:

.....aaaaaaaaaand, Eberflus is gone.  No surprise.

It actually is something of a surprise. The Bears have never fired a head coach midseason before. Yes, that is a very dumb tradition to have maintained, but it has been maintained quite steadfastly through a lot of stupidity. 

ClearWaterMS said:

stroker said:

.....aaaaaaaaaand, Eberflus is gone.  No surprise.

what kind of owners have him do his day after press conference and then AFTER that issue a statement that he was fired...  The bears are an entirely broken franchise.  
https://awfulannouncing.com/nfl/matt-eberflus-fired-meeting-with-media.html
 

Dollars to donuts, they hadn't decided to fire him until after that presser. By that I mean that Poles and Warren had not yet convinced McCaskey to allow them to fire him. 
 

And these are the same owners that

• Fired Mike Ditka after a single losing season - his 3rd in 11 seasons, and only his 4th time missing the playoffs.
• Announced a press conference to announce their new head coach... before they had come to contract terms with him and before he'd accepted
• Have never had their own stadium, despite being the oldest team in the league and being wealthy billionaires in the 3rd largest market 

They're well liked people and loyal, but holy cow are they bad at business and football. 

There is a report that Poles wanted to fire Eburflus after the Patriots game but the Family wouldn't let him

In reply to Iusedtobefast :

I believe it. Despite Poles' advocacy to keep Eberflus this past offseason, he really seems to be immune to the sunk cost fallacy in his signings and trades. No reason to think he'd be any different with the HC. 

Iusedtobefast said:

There is a report that Poles wanted to fire Eburflus after the Patriots game but the Family wouldn't let him

Poles deserves some of the blame.  The defensive line has no depth, and hasn't been able to get pressure going all the way back to the sweat trade.  The offensive line (something he promised to fix) is still fundamentally broken.  I have heard on good authority that Nick Allegretti who was born and raised in Chicago wanted to play for the bears and offered to come here for less money than he got /w the Commanders but they declined and instead went with Ryan Bates who they paid more money to and has been hurt all season.  

We can praise him for the DJ Moore / Panthers trade but lest we forget that Roquan Smith trade and Chase Claypool trade.