The Bears made historical past on Friday, firing a coach throughout the season for the primary time in franchise historical past. Making historical past, nonetheless, is usually a little clunky.
Meeting with reporters on Friday, Bears CEO Kevin Warren acknowledged that firing Matt Eberflus after Eberflus carried out a day-after-game press convention throughout which he expressed confidence that he’d stay on the job wasn’t excellent.
“In retrospect might we have now performed it higher?” Warren stated, through David Haugh of 670 The Score. “Yes. But we had been making an attempt to be respectful.”
The concern was that delaying the Friday morning press convention would have ignited a brush hearth of hypothesis, with aggressive efforts by reporters to determine what was occurring. The Bears most well-liked to have time to determine whether or not to make the change, with out inflicting chaos.
They nonetheless might have postponed it. Or they may have expedited the decision-making course of, treating the beginning of the press convention because the deadline for determining what to do.
At a deeper degree, and as defined throughout Monday’s PFT Live, there’s a way of optimism within the constructing. The optimism flows from the truth that possession has begun to make good on its promise to vary. The firing of Eberflus throughout the season — in lieu of deciding he’ll be fired after the season and implementing the transfer after weeks of uncertainty and leaks — marks a break from previous conduct by the Bears. It suggests to those that are actually operating the present in Chicago that possession is on board with what they’re making an attempt to do.
The subsequent step might be hiring a coach with the objective of getting probably the most out of rookie quarterback Caleb Williams. The Bears have seen sufficient to consider that he’s the man. This factors to the hiring of a coach with an offensive background, with the objective of becoming a member of the brand new coach and Williams on the hip for the following decade or longer.
While nothing, we’re instructed, has been dominated out at this level, that’s the best way to get probably the most out of Williams. And it could be a shock if the Bears rent anybody however somebody who might be consistently working with Williams on the sector and off in an effort to design and implement an offense that will get probably the most out of his expertise.
