Packers humiliate Bears - who gets the deflated ball?

I do agree with that last statement of Eberflus.  I'm not defending the guy, the playcalling or anything else.  But yes, those guys have to block or those plays can't work.  If Claypool doesn't want to play then cut him.  Now.  He is no good to the team if he plays like yesterday... in fact he hurts the team.  Not helps.  Hurts.

Two things can be true: Fields played poorly and the coaching/gameplan was terrible.

One game in a long season but....it was the same as last year with no improvement, not even small steps. That makes it a schematic and coaching problem above all else.

Screens work when they are used in conjunction with downfield passing. The throw back screen to Jones work because Love was throwing the ball down the field. So when he roll out it felt to the def like they were setting up a deep shot. DL gave chase and LBs flowed to Love's side of the field. Stop, plant, throw back and TD. But the DEF had to react that way because of how GB was running their OFF.

Now the Bears: DL stop their rush and closed on the screens from behind because...there was no downfield passing. When they felt the OL block and float out, because there had been soooooo many screen passes it was easy to recover quickly. They didn't have to fear Fields setting and tossing downfield. Because he wasn't going to. Screen passes work when the DEF is reacting to something else. Screen passes don't work when the DEF doesn't have to react to anything other than screen passes. NFL defenders can defend WR screens when they know its the staple of the OFF. Look at the Mooney/Claypool disaster we saw. At the snap Mooney steps back and the Claypool does even pretend to run a route. He just stands up. GB now knows its a screen and the defender was on Claypool before Fields even throws the ball. Again, by throwing sooooo many screens they gave away the plan. Its really game planning 101.

Fields echoed what he heard when they installed the game plan when he said something like "We had numbers on the outside we just didn't block. Those were chuck plays we left on the field." Yes but NO! Because there was no down the field component to the OFF GB LBS/S/CBs could prioritize where their attention went.

I honestly think Getsy saw the two screens for TDs in the PS as proof his concepts worked.

Meet the OC for the Bears.

Listening to Eberflus at that presser I think he's totally delusional.  It was like an old Lovie Smith towards the end when he's pitifully say things like "we like our chances" when obviously the team was not good.  Flus even quoted Lovie's "There's a lot of football left to play" mantra... poor Lovie would say that one until the season would mercifully end for the Bears and we could all hope for "better times" next year.  It was always about "next year" - and then next year would actually arrive and it was more mediocrity.  Of course those were the days when we WERE mediocre.  Now we are floating in the toilet bowl bad.  Oh, the glory days of mediocrity.  LOL.