Matt Eberflus is the Worst Bears Head Coach Since Mike Ditka Was Fired

This might feel like recency bias, but Matt Eberflus has to be the worst head coach the Chicago Bears have had since 1992.

That was the year Mike Ditka was fired by the McCaskey family after a 5-11 season. The franchise has never had a strong head coach since.

Sure, Lovie Smith was good. He got the Bears back to the Super Bowl. His inability to find a competent offensive coordinator and "Rex is our quarterback" never allowed him to reach Ditka status.

It did not help that Jay Cutler hurt his knee in the 2010 NFC Championship Game. Caleb Hanie threw a pick-six right to B.J. Raji that helped seal the rival Green Bay Packers' greatest win in the rivalry. At least, Lovie could beat the Packers during the regular season.

Since Lovie was fired after going 10-6 in the 2012 season, the Bears have beaten Green Bay just three times. The franchise has also won 75 regular season games and with no playoff victories in the 12 years since Lovie has been gone.

One reason for this is the Bears keep over-promoting coordinators like Matt Nagy, try to be sneaky smart when Marc Trestman cursed this franchise, or hire a veteran coach who decided to be semi-retired in John Fox.

Yet, even Trestman for all the times opposing teams hung 50 points or more on his teams cannot even come close to the incompetence of Matt Eberflus.

Even Trestman won six games by seven points or fewer in his first season. If Chris Conte does not allow Randall Cobb to run past him in the final game of the 2013 season against Green Bay, Trestman may have had a division title on his resume.

Also, Trestman at least had the offense humming in 2013. His problem was he allowed the locker room to delve into chaos in 2014, and the once-vaunted defense under Lovie got too old.

Eberflus has been so poor in crunch time that Trestman's incompetence cannot even touch.

The Bears have had losses this season where a team was allowed to complete a Hail Mary with a corner talking trash to the crowd. An easy timeout before that play is run may have gotten the defense better prepared. Heck, not allowing Washington to pick up extra yards on the play before would have helped, too.

The Bears lost to Green Bay because the Packers' coaching staff noticed the kicker hits long field goals low enough to be blocked. Instead of going for extra yards to avoid that, Eberflus decided to kick the field goal at a distance the Packers knew they would block.

The Bears lost again in crunch time to the Minnesota Vikings because Eberflus' defense got shredded in overtime. This recent loss takes the cake as Eberflus refused to call his final timeout as the team was driving after Caleb Williams got sacked.

Instead, chaos happened with a rookie quarterback trying to change the play and the clock ran out as Caleb's last-ditch effort pass to Rome Odunze fell to the ground.

Eberflus thinking the team handled the situation correctly shows just how much of a net negative leader he is. It might also have him set history as the first Bears head coach to be fired midseason.

He is that bad.

Marc Trestman survived two back-to-back blowout losses to the New England Patriots and the Green Bay Packers. Blowouts are slightly different from the coach allowing time to run out when there was a chance to win or tie the game.

There is a difference between being overmatched like the 2014 Bears were and losing because the head coach either is a coward or just froze.

Again, this could be recency bias as Trestman was terrible. John Fox has a worse winning percentage as the Bears head coach than Eberflus. At least, Fox had two Super Bowls on his resume before coming to the Bears. He also did not have the roster Eberflus had this season.

Both had to handle rebuilding rosters, but Fox never got to see a talented roster like Eberflus did this season. All the Flus has done is ruin any playoff hopes because of his incompetence.

Dave Wannestadt had two 4-12 seasons, but he had a playoff victory and who knows if the Bears have those two terrible seasons in a row if quarterback Erik Kramer never breaks his neck. Dick Jauron won a division title by winning games in 2001 in a fashion Eberflus cannot.

Even Nagy, with his inability to call plays despite having an offensive background and not developing Mitchell Trubisky or Justin Fields, won a NFL Coach of the Year award and a division title.

So when you look at those over-promoted coordinators failing overall as head coaches outside of Lovie, at least all but Fox and Trestman won something. Eberflus, on the other hand, keeps finding ways to lose worse in ways that are a lot worse or more heartbreaking than any of them.

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