Matt Eberflus punts on announcing a change at Play Caller

Matt Eberflus kicked. That’s what the Bears do best these days.

A day after saying he would have to assess the play-caller situation following a third consecutive Bears loss, the Bears coach was undecided Monday morning. Still, he said time is of the essence as Sunday’s opponent is Green Bay and the time for the Bears to play the NFC North has arrived.

“It has to happen pretty quickly,” Eberflus said of a decision. “I just think if I have to come out here in 24 hours and make all those changes or changes that you want to make and mention, I’ll get them to you when I get those answers.

“I’m not at that point yet.”

Eberflus did say he would continue with Caleb Williams at quarterback, but more than one other change could be announced.

“There will be changes and adjustments, I’m not going to announce them now,” Eberflus said. “I’m not at that point in the process yet. Monday is a long day in terms of evaluating everything, in terms of lineups, in terms of coaching, in terms of how we have to do better in that coaching and in that communication in the match, during the match, after the match . game, prior to the game.

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“So it’s important that we take the time to make those decisions and make the right decisions that are for the Bears, what’s best for the Bears this week and for the future. That’s the most important thing that we’re doing is that we have some stability here, but also make the adjustments and changes that we need to make that are best for the Bears going forward.”

Some of the other possible changes may not even involve actual people or roles.

“Just in-game communication, it needs to be better in that regard,” Eberflus said. “The adjustments, the tactical adjustments, must be better on all sides.

“Everything is on the table. And it’s important that we look at everything and take the time to make that happen.”

Eberflus called Sunday’s game film difficult to assess.

“If your team doesn’t play complementary football, you don’t like it,” Eberflus said. ‘You don’t like it.

“When you play complementary football, it is something to see, because you are playing against each other. It’s complementary, you can see guys and their passion for each other to get those things done, and yesterday wasn’t that. It’s not something you like to watch.”

The Bears have 27 points in three games, 34 possessions and only nine points in their last 23 possessions, so something is clearly wrong. Eberflus thinks they can turn it around because he’s seen evidence of it before.

When Eberflus makes a change, he says it is entirely his choice. He is in contact with GM Ryan Poles, but has the final say on changing play-callers.

“We’ve won a number of games in a row so there’s evidence on tape that we’ve had togetherness, we’ve played complementary football, we’ve played winning football and for you to sit there and say we haven’t done that, that’s not true .” told reporters. “I would say I also understand that we’ve lost three in a row and there’s an urgency and there’s adjustments that need to be made, changes that need to be made to that process because it hasn’t been working for the last three weeks and I fully understand of conscious. of that too.

“Again, I’m not alone on that point now in terms of identifying those changes because we’re in the middle of that process.”

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