The Chicago Bears were 4-2 this season headed into their bye after a convincing 35-16 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars in London, England on Oct. 13. Two games later, the Bears are 4-4 following back-to-back losses to the Washington Commanders and Arizona Cardinals.
Head coach Matt Eberflus and his coaching staff were heavily criticized by the media, and even some of the team captains in the the Bears locker room for decisions that led to the Commanders’ 18-15 win. In Week 9, the Cardinals blew out the Chicago 29-9 at State Farm Stadium.
Many fans in Chicago would like Eberflus fired after compiling a 14-28 overall record in his first three seasons with the Bears. However, the NFL Network’s Adam Rank reported on Thursday that general manager Ryan Poles plans to retain Eberflus for the 2025 season, as the head coach’s contract signed in the 2022 offseason is believed to run through 2026.
“I will say, and then the second part of that is that there’s a possibility that Matt Eberflus actually has a five-year contract and that he might be more locked in,” Rank recently said on The Sick Podcast with Adam Rank. “Because I talked and I might have alluded to this a moment ago. I talked to some people within NFL circles, people who are close to Ryan Poles.
“And they indicated to me that regardless of what happens at all, Matt Eberflus is coming back regardless. That they’re not going to be in a situation where they just, they just, they put him, they put him in the same spot that they put Justin Fields and Mitch Trubisky and Rex Grossman and everybody else. They’re not going to do that.”
The Bears currently have the No. 8 record in the NFC (which would be one spot out of the playoffs) before their Week 10 matchup with the 2-7 New England Patriots.
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