{"id":487659,"date":"2024-11-29T14:25:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T18:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=487659"},"modified":"2024-11-29T14:25:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T18:25:11","slug":"bears-dismiss-eberflus-after-6-consecutive-defeats","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/bears-dismiss-eberflus-after-6-consecutive-defeats\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears dismiss Eberflus after 6 consecutive defeats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Bears dismissed Matt Eberflus today, 24 hours after a 23-20 defeat against the Detroit Lions, which ended with Chicago falling victim to clock mismanagement.<\/p>\n<p>The head coach held a news conference via Zoom in the morning and revealed he was &#8220;confident&#8221; he would be coaching the team vs. the 49ers next weekend, but later today, Eberflus was dismissed and interim offensive coordinator Thomas Brown would replace him.<\/p>\n<p>Matt\u2019s tenure finished amid a 6-match losing streak that featured an array of last-second defeats.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bears part ways with head coach Matt Eberflus. (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@RapSheet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TomPelissero<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I1p1ZVo9Fr\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/I1p1ZVo9Fr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NFL (@NFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL\/status\/1862548373531742438?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The defeats coincided with dramatic improvement by Williams, who has thrown 232 passes without a pick, the longest streak for a rookie in league history. The rookie has thrown 5 TDs without an interception over the last 2 weeks, and the next manager&#8217;s top priority will be to develop the 1<sup>st<\/sup> pick of the draft in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Bears were defeated in 6 one-score matches this year, which brings Eberflus&#8217; career record in one-score to 5-19. That is the worst record by any manager with at least 20 matches in the National Football League history.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bears President Kevin Warren mentioned the fans in a statement following the Matt Eberflus news. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZUhR79eZ8Z\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ZUhR79eZ8Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chicago Sports Network (@CHSN__) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CHSN__\/status\/1862561054443647300?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Bears dismissed Matt Eberflus today, 24 hours after a 23-20 defeat against the Detroit Lions, which ended with Chicago falling victim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":487660,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17002,17324],"news_category":[16703,16715],"gn_keywords":[18136,23375,17873],"acf":{"announce":"Chicago fired the head coach after an awful period.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/487659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/487659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487661,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/487659\/revisions\/487661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487659"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=487659"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=487659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}