The optics for the Chicago Bears aren’t looking great. The game against the New England Patriots came as a last draw for the Windy City team, who fired their offensive coordinator after the loss to the Boston team. Now, Shane Waldron is out, and Thomas Brown is in. So, would this experimentation stop, or will there be more layoffs?

Mike Florio of PFT thinks that the Bears have done everything to create hype around themselves but didn’t deliver where it matters. The Bears were 4-2 before the bye week and lost three games in a row after the return. Since the loss against the Commanders, every game has been quite a story for Caleb Williams and his Bears.

Is Matt Eberflus cooked?

Florio quipped how the Chicago football team is trying to “change the tire on the moving car.” It hasn’t even been a year since the Bears hired Shane Waldron, for crying out loud. On top of that, they promoted a guy who was the former Carolina Panthers OC turned Bears passing game coordinator in 2024. Brown has a worse track record than Waldron, who was paid $2 million annually.

So, what are the Bears trying to achieve here? There isn’t going to be another ’85 Bears and the Chicago team might have to come to terms with that. Things are so dysfunctional in the Bears locker room that none of the Caleb Williams’ teammates helped him up in the Patriots game. It was the Pats LB Anfernee Jennings who helped Williams off the ground, and he was laughing while doing it.

You’ve got a team where players are too obsessed with premature celebration. They’ve got a bad O-Line and the solution they came up with was to fire the OC rather than improve what they have at hand. Not only did the Bears score just 3 points against the Patriots, but Caleb Williams was sacked 9 times in the game. That game was abhorrent to watch.

That’s the reason why Florio thinks that Matt Eberflus is going to get fired sooner or later. It’s just a matter of when. “Nine weeks into the season, nine games into the season, the Bears offense clearly not developing the way that was expected by virtue of the hype that was foisted upon the Bears. And now, Waldron is out, Thomas Brown takes over. We’ll see if it makes things any better,” Florio said on Pro Football Talk on YouTube.

Moreover, the veteran analyst thinks that the Bears are on their way to “cleaning out the coaching staff,” as they search for a head coach with an offensive background, unlike Matt Eberflus. If anything, an offensive HC might be able to “get more out of Caleb Williams.” Sorry Bears fans, but it certainly feels like the team is not QB friendly. Look at what happened to Justin Fields. He became better when he got to Pittsburgh.

So, what the does the main man, Matt Eberflus, think about Waldron’s firing?

Why are the Bears still sticking with their HC?

Let’s get this out of the way first. Eberflus is 14-29 with the Bears, which is worse than Matt Nagy’s 34-31, 4 season stint. The Chicago team has locker room issues, and that was quite clear when no one helped Caleb Williams get up. They didn’t even look at him when Anfernee Jennings helped him up. The team fired 8 assistants in 14 months and have reportedly blown 5 games with a 95% chance of winning, as MLFootball put it. But that’s not nearly as bad as him getting slandered on the radio.

“Coach, your cellphone is as bad as the offense right now,” is what the host of ESPN Chicago 1000AM radio host said to Eberflus when his cellphone reception kept cutting off during a recent interview. The tagline? “The host cooked him.” If anything, it’s the Bears who are cooked. What’s more alarming is the fact that Eberflus confirmed it was his decision to sack the former OC.

“After evaluating our entire operation, I decided that it is in the best interest of our team to move in a different direction with the leadership of our offense. This decision was well-thought-out, one that was conducted deliberately and respectfully,” the Chicago head coach said in a recent presser.

Next game is going to be an iconic one. The Bears are going against the Packers in an age-old rivalry after all. Do y’all really think that an inexperienced, freshly hired offensive coordinator can bring the best out of the first overall pick QB? Can Caleb Williams tip the scales of this rivalry? And most importantly, how long do you think Eberflus will stay in the system?