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Bears president expresses regret over Matt Eberflus situation

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Bears president expresses regret over Matt Eberflus situation

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The Chicago Bears are, unsurprisingly, a mess. They ultimately fired their head coach, Matt Eberflus, a decision that should have been made last year, after another disastrous case of game mismanagement on Thanksgiving Day against the Lions.

The franchise, which seemingly hasn’t had direction in decades, completely botched the firing of Matt Eberflus. Bears president Kevin Warren admitted as much on Monday.

Matt Eberflus embarrassed the entire franchise with this fiasco at the end of their 23-20 Thanksgiving loss to the Lions with one of the biggest television audiences of the year.

At 4-8 and six straight losses, Eberflus’ tenure was clearly over. They fired him last Friday, but not before forcing him to participate in the postgame press conference. Either way, it was way too late. They should have fired him after last season after a 7-10 year that brought his overall record to 10-24 in Chicago.

On Monday, Kevin Warren expressed his regret for how everything went down. Here’s Pro Football Talk with more.

During a meeting with reporters Friday, Bears CEO Kevin Warren acknowledged that firing Matt Eberflus after Eberflus held a news conference the day after the game in which he expressed confidence that he remaining in the position was not ideal.

“In retrospect, could we have done better? Warren said, via David Haugh of 670 The Score. “Yes. But we were trying to be respectful.

The worry was that delaying Friday morning’s news conference would have sparked a wildfire of speculation, with aggressive efforts by reporters to figure out what was going on. The Bears preferred to have time to decide whether to make the change, without causing chaos.

They could still have postponed it. Or they could have accelerated the decision-making process, treating the start of the press conference as the deadline for determining what to do.

Mike Florio sums it up well. The Bears once again botched an easy situation like only the Bears can.