10 coaching candidates to consider if the Chicago Bears fire Matt Eberflus

The Chicago Bears 2023 season is lost. The team is off to a three-game losing streak, the quarterback has regressed to the point that he might be broken forever, and the defensive coordinator abruptly resigned over murky circumstances.

That is not even the most terrible part. The Bears are playing worse than they did last season when the team went 3-14.

The Chicago Bears are in the middle of a 13-game regular-season losing streak and the defeats are not pretty.

The offense is disjointed. The defense cannot stop a stiff breeze even with the aid of a wall. Did I mention already the team looks even worse from last year?

You can spread the blame around, but the team has looked unprepared, overmatched, and humiliated. That falls on head coach Matt Eberflus.

His HITS principle is failing to, well, hit. There is no hustle or intensity. The offense is turning the ball over and getting penalized frequently.

Jordan Love and Baker Mayfield carved up Eberflus’ defenses. Patrick Mahomes took the dissecting of Eberflus to a whole new level. It looked like Mahomes was playing a junior varsity squad. The Chicago Bears look like a team that is not even close to hitting rock bottom.

It is time for the Chicago Bears to move on from head coach Matt Eberflus.

The Chicago Bears missed the boat on getting an offensive-minded head coach in 2022 and it has shown.

Eberflus was one of nine new head coaches hired in 2022. Eberflus along with Lovie Smith and Dennis Allen were the only defensive-minded coaches hired during that cycle. Allen and Lovie were promoted.

In an NFL world where offense matters most, a coach focused on defense better be a special leader (Smith has a record of that in Chicago) or an ability to assemble a great offensive staff. Eberflus has shown he is not capable of meeting those criteria.

Mike McDaniel, who the Bears did not interview, just coached a team that put up 70 points in a game. Doug Pederson, Kevin O’Connell, and Brian Daboll all took their teams to the playoffs.

Nathaniel Hackett is the only coach hired during the 2022 cycle who is probably worse than Eberflus.

An inability to assemble an offensive coaching staff to develop a young quarterback and a failing defense that had significant offseason resources invested in it means it is time to pull the plug on the Eberflus administration.

Some might point it would be best to send general manager Ryan Poles out the door. This has a feeling that ownership pushed Eberflus on Poles in 2022. Now it is time for him to get another chance to hire his guy free from the McCaskey bias.