He Gone Soon

The NFL has created this 24/7/365 behemoth that keeps football on every fan’s mind, which is a great thing for any team .500 or above. But it gets dicey when a team stinks. All the NFL hype-cycle does then is to remind people just how bad their team is, and the Bears are stinky bad. They showed it again yesterday with a 29-9 loss to the Cardinals. The Munsters have no offensive line and, basically, haven’t had one for the past five seasons. Stick a rookie quarterback like Caleb Williams behind a bunch of doormen who make way for the opponent’s pass rush, and you’ve got trouble. The Chicago media keeps reminding people 24/7 that Williams has been regressing the past two weeks and losses. Not so head coach Matt “Mickey” Eberflus; there’s no there there, no demonstration of talent from which to recede. Mickey’s record in two-plus seasons is a woeful 14-28, and a pathetically woeful 3-18 on the road. Veterans went public last week with doubts about coaching decisions made in the 18-15 “Hail Mary” debacle against the Commanders while 24/7 coverage stoked speculation over how or if Eberflus would discipline Tyrique Stevenson for being out of position on the Hail Mary. The answer to that question is Mickey held out Stevenson for the first two defensive series and then brought him in. The Munsters are all about pride in legacy—Halas, Ditka, Butkus, etc. The slap on the wrist is not going to play well in Soldier Field come Sunday when the Bears face the Patriots. If Eberflus and co. can’t beat a 2-7 team, it’s going to get really ugly. And it may get ugly because of another bonehead decision by the coach, to keep his quarterback in for the entire game even when he was down by twenty points late in the game. With the clock winding down and Williams scrambling to avoid a seventh sack, an Arizona defender landed on his ankle. After the game, Coach Mickey said he had Williams in to work on the two-minute drill. Right. Thanks to the NFL creation of an all-football, all-the-time environment, Bears’ fans will be reminded again and again just how bad their head coach is. He gone soon.