The Chicago Bears blew a golden opportunity to put themselves in position to defeat the mighty Detroit Lions on Thanksgiving Day with some poor clock management in the final seconds.
Trailing 23-20 with less than 30 seconds left and facing a third-and-long, no timeout was called, and their players took valuable seconds off the clock before snapping the ball and failing to get a completion as time expired.
Seemingly everyone is criticizing Bears head coach Matt Eberflus for this fiasco, including ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky, who called what happened near the end of Thursday’s game “coaching malpractice.”
Zero plan pic.twitter.com/D2Efc3eYhj
— Dan Orlovsky (@danorlovsky7) November 28, 2024
Orlovsky, a former NFL quarterback, said the team needed to know what the plan was on the snap prior to that mismanaged third down, contingent on how that prior snap played out.
That falls on Eberflus and his coaching staff.
This was not only the Bears’ sixth loss in a row, but also their third straight loss by three points or fewer.
Plenty have been calling for him to be fired for months, and there seems to be a chance that this major miscue may end up pushing Bears management into giving him a pink slip.
The team now has a 4-8 record despite possessing plenty of talent, especially on the offensive side of the football, which means they have virtually no shot at making the playoffs.
Quarterback Caleb Williams may still have plenty of potential, but right now, it is looking like yet another case of the Bears organization failing to put a potential-laden young quarterback in a position to develop and succeed.
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