Matt Eberfluss, Tyrique Stevenson, and the Chicago Bears embarrassed themselves Nationally this weekend

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There are plays or games which undo years of hard work or become careeer defining and sometimes career ending.  In Chicago Bears history the loss to the Washington Commanders on the ‘Hail Mary, full of disgrace’ last Sunday epitomizes this team.

As the last drive unfolded, Tony Romo called out the Bears mistakes real time.  Romo also laid out the pass plays Washington needed to accomplish to put themselves into position to attempt the Hail Mary.  But, while the game ended on that last play the Bears coaches lost the game with the numerous mistakes they made throughout the game.

Coach Matt Eberfluss not only lost that game, he lost the Bears season, lost the team, and should lose his job.  Worse still as media in Chicago now dissects his every statement and is rehashing and reanalyzing past coaching mistakes Eberfluss has the Big Loser stench all over him.  

This embarrassment continues to grow and even Coach Walz took a swipe at the lowly Bears.  What makes it worse is it while campaigning in Wisconsin.  The Bears defeat 18-15 didn’t happen solely because of the final play or the clownish antics of Mr. Tyrique Stevenson but because the Bears coaching staff failed in all aspects of the game.  

The Bears defense kept this game close throughout the first 3 quarters holding Washington to 4 Field goals giving themselves a chance despite Caleb Williams and the offense being terrible.  Then new running back DeAndre Swift single-handedly hurdled over Washington as Caleb Williams found enough moxie and poise to put the Bears ahead with less than a minute in the 4th quarter!

Then after somehow overcoming a terrible performance Tyrique Stevenson cemented himself into the NFL film archives, alongside Leon Lett being chased down by Don Beebe in the Super Bowl, but it’s even worse because Stevenson’s taunting, lolly-gagging, and unprofessional clowning actually cost the Bears the game.  His video will be showed to young football players forever about what not to do.  I have some pity for Stevenson because he’s a young man playing in the bright lights of professional football but, as 670 The Score talked about him being a goof in practice, inattentive in pre-game walk-through, as well as highlighting his past on field egregious infractions it makes it seem like the play was not of character for him.  Which means his buffoonery on the field, while the final play has started, as the game hung in the balance is not only not unexpected but, tolerated.  Stevenson to his credit took blame on social media but, does it really matter?

This game was supposed to be the arrival party for the Bears and for Caleb Williams to take a step into the new pantheon of young QBs.  It was supposed to herald a new era in Chicago football, to be the springboard for the future, which would also see the Bears move to Arlington Heights and become a relevant NFL powerhouse again.

Just a couple weeks ago, Cole Kmet said he was looking forward to more prime time exposure for the Bears after their London romp over the Jaguars.  Instead the Bears are the laughing stock of the League Yet Again!

"I think it's a really good lesson for everyone to learn from in terms of how to respect the game," Cole Kmet said. "I think we had examples of that throughout the game and quite frankly throughout the week of practice this past week. There are moments where maybe some guys lay off here and there, those are the types of things that can happen when you do that for just a split-second. It doesn't always come to bite you in the butt but when it does, it hurts. That's the unfortunate and I would also say beauty of this game, if you disrespect it in a certain way and it'll come to haunt you in some form or fashion."

I don’t see how Eberfluss can recover from this, he’s about to become Mark Trestman a coach the Bears fans and media hated from day one and never gave a chance and whom players like Lance Briggs walked all over and like Double Doink Matt Nagy tenure, this current team under Eberfluss will never win a playoff game.

Unless Eberfluss pulls off a miracle this year this game will be the defining one for him as a coach. Unprepared.  Undisciplined.  Too cutesy play calling, by handing the ball off to a stone-handed lineman who promptly fumbled at the goal line instead of running the touchdown run in their playbook he himself calls ‘Gods Play’. Not calling timeouts to blunt Washington’s Hail Mary momentum. And not being able or willing to discipline a player who was out of position and whose frantic scramble to get back in resulted in the tipped ball and a lost game.

The Bears at the end of the season will find themselves one game out and this pathetic loss will be that game.